DEVASTATION A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INFRINGEMENT THE RIGHT TO FIRE
When we were kids we talked about the value of the Mapuche people of the resistance given to the English invasion and how the Crown wiped with a piece of our identity. But they never told us that the Mapuche out victorious in the War of Conquest, which was recognized as a nation and even fought against the Liberation Army. Not tell us that those who slaughtered, cut and separate from our "proud nation" we ourselves, the Republican Chile. So, after the 1881 military defeat and occupation of Villarica in 1883 changed the nation's relationship with the Chilean Mapuche. Territorial reduction was the central element of the change. For the Mapuche were subjected to the rigors of civilization, they were given small land grants, they are locked in cuts and were forced to become farmers, the warrior had become citizen and the pastor of cattle in peasant subsistence farmer. Were years of fear, pestilence, hunger and loss of identity reformulation of a new culture as an ethnic enclave in the Chilean rural society. Thus, contemporary Chilean history is marked, as the Indian problem, a deep contradiction: the constitution of nationality required a historical myth, and there was blood shed in defense araucana freedom, whose color is displayed on the flag homeland emerges on the other hand, in parallel, during the process of "pacification" the stereotype: The Mapuche are wild, their customs are degrading, are drunk not like the work and war are not as brave as cruel. There will come a time when the country Santiago, who boasted that cultured and civilized, yell "Kill them!" and the stereotype will be maintained and the abuse is prolonged by years, until during the land reform process, thanks to the lucidity of Mapuche leaders were in the same case because of the poor in Chile, the presidents Frei and Allende tried to curb the state's historic usurpation of Chile. However, the military government would stop this process by enacting a decree law division of the indigenous communities, providing small size of individual properties not allowed be a viable economic unit. After the dictatorship of the Concertación governments have not had the political will to resolve the conflict, siding which historically, with few exceptions, has placed the State in Chile: the side of the rich, the powerful, for those who exploit our people and our land.