In Mapuche, say,"buenos días.
Here we are in this town of Mapuche people.
This is Chos Malal, which, in Mapuche, means"yellow rock, after the surrounding hills.
The indigenous people of Chile, the Mapuche, have traditionally eaten
and drank maqui berries for hundreds of years.
Since colonial times, the Chilean culture has been a mix of Spanish colonial elements with indigenous(mostly Mapuche) culture.
After obtaining permission from the teachers, she asked each class of students if any of them were Mapuche.
The Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén filed a criminal complaint last October,
asking the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate possible criminal liability.
Galvarino implored the Mapuche war council to continue the fight and stirred up his people even more against the Spanish.
Overmatched, the Mapuche eventually succumbed in the battle, and when the smoke cleared,
reportedly about 3,000 Mapuche had been killed, and another 800 captured, including Galvarino.
From the Mapuche word chilli, which may mean"where the
land ends;" or from the Quechua chiri,"cold", or tchili, meaning either"snow" or"the deepest point of the Earth".
The Spanish heard about“Chilli” from the Incas in Peru,
who had failed to conquer the land inhabited by the Araucanians, of which the Mapuche were the most warlike group.