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MAPUCHE
The Mapuche people
The Mapuche people was born as a union of native groups from the Central-South of present-day Chile and Argentina.
It is an indigenous community, which is therefore born as belonging to a land: the ancestral territory called Wallmapù ("the surrounding land") and which today coincides with the Araucanian area.
The term refers to a very large ethnic group that includes various and different groups that have social, political and economic structures in common and that see a strong link with the land and the sea as their main cultural aspect.
Language and culture
A decisive element of cohesion is the language: it is distinguished by areas and has as its main reference the Mapudungun dialect for land Mapuche and the Uiglice for Huillice Mapuche, also called Mapuche of the sea.
Equally important are the different flags, symbolizing the living presence of these communities.
To characterize and outline the dignity of the Mapuche community is in fact the strong sense of identity which, after centuries, continues to be maintained and relaunched through the original message of respect for nature and what precedes and founds us.
History
People immediately endowed with great strength and desire for independence, resisted the Inca attempts of subjugation, the same attempts by the Spanish colonizers during the middle of the second millennium, and also had to defend themselves against the Chilean state that came to be formed later which tried to take over the lands
and values of the community.
This up to today, in which the struggle cannot yet be said to be over.
The approximate number of individuals that make up this people, divided between Chile and Argentina, is 1 million. It is a number that, taking history as an example, will not easily give up its roots.