Mapuche Women: A Double Struggle

Mapuche Women: A Double Struggle Rocío Alorda, 2010 The Mapuche communities of southern Chile have fought successive governments to recognize and respect their territory, as ever-encroaching industry eyes their valuable ancestral lands. “As long as we have land, there is nothing we will lack,” said Dominica Quilapi, president of the Mapuche organization Rayen Domo in the southern Bio-Bio region. “The earth is our mother, the one who gives us food.” In their Mapudungun language,...

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