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Spain recognized independence of Mapuche Nation after more than one hundred years of war [1][2]. Chile and Argentina started a war campaign against them [2][3]
by ankalagon 7y ago
Spain recognized independence of Mapuche Nation after more than one hundred years of war [1][2].
Chile and Argentina started a war campaign against them [2][3][4]. The Mapuches call it the Last Massacre (La última masacre in Spanish)[1].
[1] https://www.mapuche-nation.org/english/html/m_nation/main/m_nation.htm https://www.mapuche-nation.org/english/html/m_nation/main/m_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arauco_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arauco_War
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Araucan%C3%ADa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Araucan%C3%ADa
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Desert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Desert
- thoughtleader31 7y agoYes, it's a complex issue that evolved over the course of centuries. But it's a remarkable exception that the Mapuche managed to settle a border with the Crown. I've never said that Chile was any better. I mean, it was in comparison to some periods, the early conquest saw mutilation as collective punishment and impalement as execution of POWs. What you just said isn't a defense of the Spanish Empire. If anything it is about the capacity to resist of the Mapuche and the power of decentralized self-organization. There just wasn't an emperor-high priest to kidnap and extort the Mapuche into surrendering like with the Aztecs or the Inca.