
	Where results make sense

Topic: Mapuche

In the News (Mon 17 Jun 13)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Mapuche - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mapuche
		The South American Mapuche Indians once lived in small farming villages throughout the Central Valley of Chile.
		The most important divisions of the group are the Mapuche and Huilliche.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mapuche (207 words)

	Mapuche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mapuche Inter-Regional Council (CIM) is an umbrella organisation in Temuco City, in the heart of Mapuche territory, uniting six Mapuche organisations in Chile and Argentina, as well as the Mapuche Exterior Committee.
		The objectives of the Mapuche Inter-Regional council are the improvement of the people’s living standard, the preservation of the Mapuche culture and the restitution of ancestral Mapuche lands, as well as the exercise of the right to self-determination.
		Legal definition of Mapuche land tenure began in the 1860’s with the issuing of “titulos de merced” in the north and “escrituras de comisario” in the south.
	www.unpo.org /member.php?arg=37 (1786 words)

	Who are the Mapuche..... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mapuche people are the largest ethnic group in Chile and constitute approximately 10% (more than 1.000.000 people) of the Chilean population.
		The Mapuche people call themselves differently according to where they live, for example the Huilliche, people from the south, the Lafkenche, people from the west or the Nagche, people of the valley.
		Mapuches who move to the cities soon forget their culture in order to be able to get a place in the society.
	www.mapuche.nl /english/mapuche.htm (552 words)

	The Mapuche Indians of Chile: Politics, Resistance, & Tradition
		The Mapuche are a strong and amazing people who have managed to maintain a lot of their culture intact.
		The Mapuche’s religion is one of animal and ancestor worship.
		The Mapuche also herd the vicuna, guanaco, alpaca, and the llama, which are all American camels and are beasts of burden.
	www.mapuche.info /mapuint/Moylan990400.html (3596 words)

	Mapuche Indians in Chile Struggle to Take Back Forests
		Despite international protests, 18 Mapuche leaders are scheduled to go on trial soon, accused under a statute that prohibits "generating fear among sectors of the population." The charges stem from a series of incidents during the past seven years in which groups of Mapuches have burned forests or farmhouses or destroyed forestry equipment and trucks.
		To many Mapuches, the current dispute is merely the continuation of a conflict that has existed since the arrival of the conquistadors in the 16th century.
		On land the Mapuches claim is theirs, the firms have planted hundreds of thousands of acres with Monterey pine and eucalyptus trees, species that are not native to the region and that consume large amounts of water and fertilizer.
	www.quechuanetwork.org /only_article.cfm?lang=s&path=081604_1111.htm (1334 words)

	MM November 1995
		Mapuches were the only Hispano-American nation that was never vanquished by the Spaniards.
		Mapuches were returned an average of six hectares of their original land per person.
		Mapuche knowledge of medicinal plants, the innate Pehuenche understanding of the habitat of endangered species of flora and fauna, as well as Huilliche forest management systems all have market potential within Chile and internationally.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/mm1195.09.html (1210 words)

	americas.org - Mapuche Struggle Heats Up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Seven Mapuches, two of them minors, were arrested in the clash, and police confiscated ski-masks and boleadoras, weapons made of ropes tied together with metal balls at the ends.
		Mapuche leaders announced on January 15 that their communities would continue the occupations of land under the control of lumber companies, as part of a process of recovery of ancestral Mapuche territory.
		A 12-year-old Mapuche girl, Celia Nancupil, was badly hurt when she was hit by at least seven small-caliber bullets (or as many as 12, according to some sources) fired by the Carabineros; she was taken to a hospital in Temuco.
	www.americas.org /news/nir/20010121_mapuche_struggle_heats_up.asp (491 words)

	Mapuche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mapuche are the only indigenous group which withstood the attacks of the Inca and were never conquered by them.
		By 1979, the date of the current law which provides for the division and liquidation of the Mapuche reserves, the amount of land available to the Mapuche had been further reduced.
		The traditional Mapuche lifestyle is agricultural, but many Mapuche have moved to cities like Santiago (the capital of Chile), or Temuco which is a regional center of commerce.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/southamerica/mapuche.html (145 words)

	The Mapuche (English Version)
		The Mapuche language was spoken from the river Choapa in the North to Chilo in the South.
		From Recollections of a Mapuche Chief, by Pascual Coña.
		In the XIX century, when the Mapuche society from the pampas suffered a remarkable social and economical discrimination, the accumulation of silver objects was a sign of wealth and prestige.
	www.bariloche.com.ar /museo/MAPUING.HTM (3538 words)

	menu_ing.gif
		Currently the Mapuche are putting up various forms of resistance in an effort to reclaim their land and fight back against logging companies.
		The Mapuche women are typically shown wearing their trapelocha and trarilanca (chains of silver coins that are worn as necklaces or attached to kerchiefs worn around the forehead.) However the reality is that Mapuche women often do not wear these ornaments in their daily life.
		The Mapuche you see in the photos are all actively involved in efforts to maintain their traditional culture but at the same time they are also radio technicians, construction workers and medical students.
	www.firethistime.com /en/images-mapuche.htm (747 words)

	English information about the Mapuche
		Mapuche boys usually take part in planting and harvesting the crops, as well as gathering the "piñón", the nut of the coniferous Araucaria or monkey puzzle tree, which is a staple of the Mapuche diet.
		In addition to the mines facing opposition from locals, the native peoples or the Mapuche Indians are also against these projects and often join forces with the citizenry in a common front which forms a collective political force opposed to the miners and their local political cronies.
		The Mapuche were incorporated into the Chilean Republic during the period of “pacification”; between 1866 and 1881, during which thousands of Mapuches died and 95 percent of their land was seized for the central, Santiago-based government.
	www.mapuche.nl /english/news.htm (9284 words)

	FWB, Februrary 1993
		The Mapuches were charged with participating in an illegal organization, occupation of private land (the state of Chile is the guarantor of private property), and forming an organization dangerous to Chilean society.
		The London-based Mapuche Committee in Exile has called for international support for the Mapuche people and recognition of the injustice and repression they face today in their attempt to create a new reality for the Mapuche Nation.
		Mapuche land is exhausted from overuse and erosion.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /fwc/Issue4/chile-1.html (947 words)

	Mapuche Culture a Boon to Health and Palate
		For the past month, these three Chilean women have been complementing their ''western medicine'' treatments with Mapuche products, made using 47 native plants harvested in the Araucanía region, some 700 km south of the capital and where the Mapuche population is concentrated.
		Mapuche cooking also focuses heavily on beef, pork, poultry, mutton and even horse, as well as wheat and corn, pine nuts native to Araucanía, potatoes, beans and a wide variety of vegetables.
		The approximately 600,000 Mapuches constitute 87 percent of Chile's indigenous population, and four percent of the total population of 15 million.
	www.tierramerica.net /2005/0219/iacentos.shtml (886 words)

	CHILE: Mapuche Political Party to Pursue Autonomy
		Wallmapuwen, which means "fellow citizens of the Mapuche country," is aiming to become legally established in the second half of this year, so that it can field candidates for mayors and town councillors in the 2008 municipal elections.
		According to the Mapuche, the Wallmapu covers the ninth region of Chile, Araucania - where 23.5 percent of the population belongs to this ethnic group - together with some bordering districts in the eighth region, Bío Bío, and the tenth region, Los Lagos.
		In contrast, the Mapuche cause, understood as the sum of their political, social, cultural and linguistic demands, continues to be broadly accepted by the national population.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=32324 (1222 words)

	The Mapuche of Chile - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		In the VI century, the ancestors of the Mapuches settled in the lake area.
		The environment of the Mapuches in Chile was apt for a small scale agriculture.
		The traditional Mapuche dwelling or RUKA is a big wooden hut with a thatched roof, for one family.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /mapuche_chile.htm (627 words)

	Mapuche Quest Villarrica, Chile
		Mapuche Quest is a project to assist the Mapuche Indians of Chile, to enhance the living conditions of Mapuche communities by providing improved health care, skills training and day care.
		The Mapuche (which means ''people of the earth'') are the natives indigenous to Chile, who have only been exposed to the 'civilized' world during the last 100 years.
		The goal of Mapuche Quest is to provide them with basic health services, using mobile units; and to hold skills-training workshops to help them cope with the modern world, and increase their knowledge of the resources around them.
	www.familycare.org /network/s07.htm (985 words)

	[No title]
		On the one hand, the Mapuche and their supporters were uninterested in the details of implementation, speaking more in terms of general resistance to the law and preferring to disregard it as not being legitimate rather than discuss it as if, in any way, valid.
		For the Mapuche receiving the urban property this has the risk of both separation from the other members of his or her community and of eventual need to sell to non-Indian(s) as the economic difficulties of life in the urban environment take their toll.
		The Mapuche know that the present regime cannot last forever and they are waiting for the day when this ethnocidal legislation is replaced by laws which will return their lands to them and recognize their rights as an indigenous nation.
	www.cwis.org /fwdp/Americas/mapuche.txt (7198 words)

	SIM People Group Profile: Mapuche
		The Mapuche are one of three surviving tribes of the ancient Araucanian linguistic group of Indians who lived in Chile and Argentina before the Incas or the Spaniards arrived.
		Instruments are limited to the trutruka, a long horn made of bamboo and a cow’s horn; the pifüllka, a two-tone wood flue; the kultrun, a small bowl-shaped drum, and the trompe, or Jew’s harp.
		The capacity of the Mapuche to resist began to weaken late in the eighteenth century, and they were eventually forced from their ancestral homes.
	www.sim.org /PG.asp?pgID=19&fun=1 (1048 words)

	The situation according to the Mapuche organisation Xeg-Xeg ^{(treng-treng)}
		Since Mapuche territory was incorporated into the Chilean state at the end of last century, Mapuche have systematically been deprived of their territory and been subject to racial discrimination.
		Their measures are aimed at the “real” Mapuche, the majority of Mapuche, the ones expected to suffer in silence and accept their charity with thanks.
		Mapuche leaders present at the presidential ceremony complained that no mention was made in the announcement of the forestry companies, whom they saw as the origins of the conflict, or of stopping the pine plantations, or of the devolution of waters and territories, or of reforming CONADI
	www.xs4all.nl /~rehue/art/perez2.html (2606 words)

	Chile: Mapuches Convicted of “Terrorism” (Human Rights Watch, 23-8-2004)
		The only victim of the land conflict is a 17-year-old Mapuche and CAM sympathizer, Alex Lemun, who was shot by a police officer during a land protest in November 2002.
		In contrast to the prosecution of the Mapuches, the officer responsible for the shooting has not faced criminal charges by the military tribunal investigating the case.
		In a recent report, the Rapporteur expressed concern at the criminalization of Mapuche demands and urged the government to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in the south based on respect for their rights.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2004/08/23/chile9257.htm (836 words)

	Choike - Benetton seizes Mapuche´s lands
		This trial showed once again the application of the "Colabelli Doctrine" in the Chubut province: conflicts that should have been settled in the civilian realm settled under penal jurisdiction to ensure the "return" of lands to the accusing "owners" and in all cases the local landowners and multinationals.
		In front of him were over 200 mapuche and non-mapuche, to whom Rosa's and Atilio's words resonated: "We cannot usurp our own land, we are part of this land and we want to keep on living on it.
		To the Mapuche Indians in southern Argentina, the Italian clothing manufacturer Benetton is the newest conquistador in 10,000 years of land struggles in Patagonia.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/1936.html (788 words)

	Chile: Terror Law Violates Due Process for Mapuche (Human Rights Watch, 27-10-2004)
		To make matters worse, Mapuche accused of violence against the police, despite their status as civilians, are also tried in military courts composed of members of the armed forces.
		The Mapuche are accused of plotting to commit a string of arson attacks on woods, fields, homesteads, and vehicles on land under dispute in the Araucanía region of southern Chile.
		The fertile land of the Bío Bío and the Araucanía regions, ancestral territory of the Mapuche, is now dotted with commercial pine and eucalyptus plantations, which the Mapuche claim harm the ecosystems on which their traditional life depends.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2004/10/26/chile9566.htm (1167 words)

	The Mapuche: Out of the fog
		Lodged in the remote highlands of the Andes Mountains, the resilient Mapuche were the only Native Americans who successfully defended their land from Inca and Spanish conquest.
		The Mapuche adapted to the rough terrain of the Andes and the volcanoes which tower over the land.
		IMB missionary Edwin Smallwood said that once a Mapuche accepts Jesus Christ as God’s Son, the commitment runs deep and they hold fast to their faith.
	archives.tconline.org /Stories/May01/Mapuche.html (981 words)

	RIGHTS-CHILE: No Solution in Sight to Mapuche Land Dispute
		The most controversial point is the criminalisation of the land occupations staged in recent years by indigenous communities in the Bío-bio and Araucanía regions, 400 and 800 km south of the capital, respectively, and home to the greatest percentage of the rural Mapuche population.
		UN special rapporteur Stavenhagen, a well-known Mexican anthropologist, said in his April 2004 report that the Chilean juridical system is limited when it comes to the defence of indigenous rights, and recommended that the Chilean government take legislative, administrative, political and economic actions to overcome the shortfalls.
		President Lagos also underscores the creation of indigenous municipalities in areas that are populated mostly by Indians, as well as the election of indigenous mayors in 18 of the country's 345 municipalities in the October 2004 voting.
	ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=28585 (908 words)

	The Mapuche Language
		The Mapuche call their language Mapudungun (or Mapudungu), which is composed of "mapu" (land) and "dungun" (speech).
		Another word that is sometimes used is the Spanish word for the Mapuche and their language, which is "Araucano" (or in English, "Araucanian").
		This is a great loss, not only for the culture and identity of the Mapuche people, but also for anyone interested in studying culture and language as a way of understanding what it means to be human.
	www.xs4all.nl /~rehue/lang/lan002.html (1055 words)

	mapuche indian social studies south american tribes
		__ "The Mapuche nation is situated in what is known as the Southern Cone of South America, in the area now occupied by the Argentine and Chilean states." You will learn their history, culture, plans and more.
		Despite return to democracy to this region the Mapuche are still marginalized, human rights violations continue and international laws are not recognized." You will find a good overview of history, culture, politics, social organization and more.
		An Overview of the Mapuche and Aztec Military Response to the Spanish Conquest
	www.archaeolink.com /mapuche_people_indigenous_studie.htm (636 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)