Home to pristine forests and the indigenous Mapuche people, Chile’s Araucanía Region is rich with tourism potential. However, according to the government, the area needs a facelift in order to ...

On Tuesday, Conadi, the Chilean government ministry for indigenous affairs, held an official ceremony leading up to the We-tripantu to honor the Mapuche. “We want to maintain the culture and the ...

The Mapuche make up about 12% of Chile's population and are by far its largest indigenous group. They have long been fighting for recognition as Chile's constitution - drawn up during Gen Augusto ...

A tourism hot spot for culture, handicrafts, and its pastoral landscape, this area is also a center of conflict— the indigenous Mapuche in the area, as throughout Chile and Argentina ...

The Latin American Indigenous Languages Guide created through CU Libraries provides useful resources about the Andean and indigenous languages, literature, films, and culture of the Quechua, Aymara, ...

Today, Mr. Paillamilla, 57, said he saw his work as deeply spiritual, a way to carry on the traditions of his Indigenous ancestors — the Mapuche (mah-POO-cheh), or “people of the land ...

Hundreds of Mapuche Indigenous people and supporters marched through Santiago on Monday, marking the Day of the Encounter of ...

Members of the ATM group recently posted an image on Twitter showing Mapuche students "demanding the freedom" of the indigenous leader. The Cautín River flows through the heart of Curacautín ...

For the many Indigenous peoples who attend the annual ... Advertisement Article continues below this ad “As a young Mapuche, I denounce the contamination of my home of Ranco Lake in southern ...

The rally was held to mark a month since 28-year-old Maldonado was last seen. Maldonado had been participating in a protest with a group of indigenous Mapuche people on August 1 in Chubut province, in ...

The guardians collect, trade and plant hundreds of seeds to preserve forgotten varieties of tomatoes, corn and other vegetables that were historically farmed by the indigenous Mapuche people.