Mapuche

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• As she soaked her feet in the opal stream, the ancient Mapuche she'd greeted at the beginning of the journey, still wearing a formal blue suit, galloped up on his horse, leaped off, and cast a homemade reel into the surf.

  Fiction book (1998)

• "It's got to be a Mapuche, that's sure.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The most interesting pattern here for me was the the Mapuche Indian area.

• "We could find out," Huaipulen said, "if some other Mapuche lives here in Washington."

  Fiction book (1992)

• We, Mapuche political prisoners on hunger strike and mobilized by our rights, will continue with much strength until we reach our objective.

  Blog text (15)

• "A Mapuche," Fuller said.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Chile is a profoundly mestizo society in which settlers from Europe long ago intermarried extensively with the Mapuche and other indigenous peoples.

  Academic text (2000)

• "If he's not afraid," he said, and his voice rippled beyond the small circle of Fuller, the interpreter, the Mapuche, "then why are you insisting on this report?"

  Fiction book (1992)

• Although Chile pioneered in privatizing collective holdings in the name of promoting efficiency, the 1990s brought a resurgence of the indigenous rights movement among the Mapuche.

  Academic text (2001)

• Many Mapuche still practice their traditional ceremonies in the Andes mountains.

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