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Mapuche
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Ma·pu·che  (mä-pch, -ch)
n. pl. Mapuche or Ma·pu·ches
1. A member of a South American Indian people inhabiting south-central Chile.
2. The Araucanian language of the Mapuche. Also called Mapudungun.

[Mapuche : mapu, earth + che, people.]


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Por ejemplo, tenemos aqui una de sus arengas en las reuniones que llevaban a cabo los araucanos para tratar el curso del conflicto: diciendo: A mi la Espana no me espanta, y no quiero por hombre ser tenido si solo no arriino a los cristianos, ahora sean divinos, ahora humanos.
The sixteenth-century bard Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga, in his epic poem La araucana, applied the term araucanos to all indigenous people of southern Chile.
 
 
 
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