mapuche|mapuches in English

noun

member of a South American Indian people who live in central Chile and in regions near Argentina

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1. However, most Mapuche Araucanians today continue to …

2. Nowadays Mapuche communities live in the eastern part of the park.

3. In the Mapuche language, nahuel means "jaguar" and huapi means "island".

4. [Spanish araucano, Araucanian person, Mapuche, from Arauco, a former region of southern Chile.]

5. Araucanian (also ARAUCANS, MOLUCHES, MAPUCHES).—The origin of the word is not yet fully ascertained

6. [Spanish araucano, Araucanian person, Mapuche, from Arauco, a former region of southern Chile.] American Heritage

7. The Araucanian Mapuche inhabited at the time of Spanish arrival the valleys between the Itata and Toltén rivers

8. The Araucanians were nomadic hunting and food-gathering peoples divided into three groups: the Mapuche, the Picunche, and the Huilliche

9. The Mapuche culture first appeared in the South of Chile, in the province of Araucania, with the so-called Araucanians, in time unknown.

10. The Mapuche infantry played a vital role in the Araucanian war, from the initial of the conquest in 1541 to 1883

11. Agriculture is practised in Chile since pre-Hispanic times when indigenous Mapuches, Aymaras and Atacameños raised llama and alpaca livestock and cultivated beans, maize, potato and quinoa.

12. Coypu is what the Mapuche Indians of Chile and Argentina called it though typical of Dead Latin their “Koypu” was changed to Coypu

13. Mapudungun is the primary member of the small Araucanian family – its greater genetic affiliation is uncertain – and is spoken by some 300,000 Mapuche people in central Chile and adjoining areas of Argentina