1. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS IN CHILE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS IN CHILE PROGRESSES AND CONTRADICTIONS IN A CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION. Institute of Indigenous Studies University of La Frontera (Master Program, Faculty of Law, UBC) http://www.xs4all.nl/~rehue/art/ayl2.html

URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rehue/art/ayl2.html INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS IN CHILE: PROGRESSES AND CONTRADICTIONS IN A CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION. Institute of Indigenous Studies University of La Frontera Temuco, Chile (Master Program, Faculty of Law, UBC) * Paper presented at the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) XXVIII Congress, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., March 19-21, 1998. 1. INTRODUCTION. Chile has historically denied its ethnic and cultural diversity. The country's ruling class has been able to build and internalize in the minds of the people the idea that ours is a racially homogenous society, basically of European origin. This idea, which for centuries has been promoted through different means, including family, school, and literature, became dominant during the republican period, giving birth to the myth, still believed by many, of the Chileans as being the "English of South America". The few recognitions that were made regarding indigenous peoples' dealt with their past, not with their present. The image of the brave Mapuche who resisted the Spaniard conqueror due to their libertarian spirit, became socially accepted and promoted. Consistent with these ideas, until recently their current population was perceived by many as remaining pockets of the so called "Araucanian indians", living in small areas of lands or "reducciones" which were left to them after their territory was occupied by the army at the end of the last century.

2. SOLIDARITY WITH MAPUCHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF CHILE He based his position upon guarantees of indigenous rights in chile's indigenous peoples Law. http://www.soc.uu.se/mapuche/docs/camp97051301.htm

URL:http://www.soc.uu.se/mapuche URGENT APPEAL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH MAPUCHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF CHILE May 14, 1997 Today, more than 500 Mapuche indigenous people have taken to the streets in Santiago, Chile on a march to protest continuing efforts by the Chilean government to deny them fundamental rights guaranteed under Chilean law. Motivating this historic protest are recent events involving not only actions by the Chilean government, but also involving the Indigenous Fund, a multilateral fund which is administered by the Inter-American Development Bank and other agencies, supposedly with democratic indigenous representation. Brief background: In late April, Chilean President Frei fired the Director of the National Commission on Indigenous Development (CONADI), Mauricio Huenchulaf. Huenchulaf had taken a strong position in support of the rights of Mapuches fighting the Ralco Dam on the Biobio River, which would submerge two Pehuenche villages, and other projects which would directly impact Chilean indigenous territories. He based his position upon guarantees of indigenous rights in Chile's Indigenous Peoples Law. Mapuche leaders occupied the headquarters of CONADI and issued a statement calling Huenchulaf's sacking "the intervention and brutal destruction of an institution created to contribute to the protection and promotion of our rights, and which now has been converted into an obstacle to them, favoring instead the megaprojects of an authoritarian modernization which is leaving our country without a soul and without roots, which looks greedily at our few remaining ancestral territories".

3. Abya Yala Net Andean Region Ecuador; Peru; Bolivia; Northern chile and Argentina. Southern Cone Moreinformation on indigenous peoples in Mexico, Central, and South America can http://abyayala.nativeweb.org/

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4. OneWorld News Service - Indigenous Peoples A leader of chile's Mapuche indigenous community has been arrested by an international police squad indigenous peoples in the North and Midwest regions of Brazil are protesting http://www.oneworld.org/news/world/indigenous.html

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS/MALAYSIA: Villagers slam dam plans Malaysian villagers have pledged to stand their ground in the face of plans for a giant dam project. From Inter Press Service, featured on the OneWorld News Service 20 May 1999 INDIGENOUS RIGHTS/CHILE: Cross-border police squad arrests tribal leader A leader of Chile's Mapuche indigenous community has been arrested by an international police squad after speaking out against human rights abuses. From Environment News Service (ENS), featured on the OneWorld News Service 17 May 1999 INDIGENOUS RIGHTS/US: Whale hunt piles pressure on prosecutor A prosecutor in Washington state is seeking federal help to deal with a battery of legal actions against a controversial whale hunt which began this week. From Environment News Service (ENS), featured on the OneWorld News Service 12 May 1999 INDIGENOUS RIGHTS/CANADA: Makah whale hunt gets underway Members of the Makah Indian Tribe of northwest Washington State have set off on a controversial whale hunt. From Environment News Service (ENS), featured on the OneWorld News Service 11 May 1999

5. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS IN CHILE - Notes Aylwin, who became elected president of chile in the inclusion of the concept of indigenousterritories, were recognition of their status as peoples, with the http://www.xs4all.nl/~rehue/art/ayl2not.html

Notes Tierra, Territorio y Desarrollo Indigena . Temuco, Instituto de Estudios Indigenas de la Universidad de la Frontera, 1995), 195-204. Historia del Pueblo Mapuche (Santiago: Ediciones Sur, 1985), 15 Historia de la Civilizacion y Legislacion Indigena de Chile . (Santiago: Facultad de Ciencias Juridicas y Sociales, Universidad de Chile, 1948), 29-39. Nutram, Year II, No3,1986,7. Comunidades Indigenas de los Canales Australes .(Santiago: CONADI, 1995). Los Mapuche. Comunidades y Localidades en Chile. (Santiago: Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas; Ediciones SUR, 1979), 12-16. Los Mapuche. Comunidades y Localidades en Chile Los Mapuche. Comunidades y Localidades en Chile Censo de Poblacion y Vivienda . Chile, 1992. Problemas y Perspectivas para el Desarrollo Aymara Regional . (Working Document No 3, Arica:TEA, 1987). Ley Indigena: Avances y Obstaculos para su Materializacion en el Territorio Mapuche (1994-1997) , (Temuco: Instituto de Estudios Indigenas, Universidad de la Frontera, 1998 (unpublished document)). The total budget destined by CONADI to this land and water fund was of $ 13.220.153.119 (Chilean pesos), which is equivalent to approximately $ 30.000.000 (US dollars). The families benefited by this fund through the period reach to 15.358 according to CONADI. In CONADI ( Departamento de Tierras y Aguas Indigenas), Fondo de Tierras y Aguas Indigenas. Resultados de Programas Ejecutados Periodo 1994-1997

6. Urgent Appeal For Solidarity With Mapuche Indigenous People Of Chile impact chilean indigenous territories. He based his position upon guaranteesof indigenous rights in chile's indigenous peoples Law. http://abyayala.nativeweb.org/chile/mapuche1.html

Urgent appeal for solidarity with Mapuche Indigenous people of Chile May 14, 1997 Today, more than 500 Mapuche indigenous people have taken to the streets in Santiago, Chile on a march to protest continuing efforts by the Chilean government to deny them fundamental rights guaranteed under Chilean law. Motivating this historic protest are recent events involving not only actions by the Chilean government, but also involving the Indigenous Fund, a multilateral fund which is administered by the Inter-American Development Bank and other agencies, supposedly with democratic indigenous representation. Brief background: In late April, Chilean President Frei fired the Director of the National Commission on Indigenous Development (CONADI), Mauricio Huenchulaf. Huenchulaf had taken a strong position in support of the rights of Mapuches fighting the Ralco Dam on the Biobio River, which would submerge two Pehuenche villages, and other projects which would directly impact Chilean indigenous territories. He based his position upon guarantees of indigenous rights in Chile's Indigenous Peoples Law. Mapuche leaders occupied the headquarters of CONADI and issued a statement calling Huenchulaf's sacking "the intervention and brutal destruction of an institution created to contribute to the protection and promotion of our rights, and which now has been converted into an obstacle to them, favoring instead the megaprojects of an authoritarian modernization which is leaving our country without a soul and without roots, which looks greedily at our few remaining ancestral territories".

7. Cabot, Penny. A Dam Of Destruction. (Biobio) Resurgence 181. A DAM OF DESTRUCTION Building a new dam on the great river, Biobjo, in southern chile will destroy the culture and livelihood of thousands of indigenous people. Pinochet, overrules the indigenous Law, weakening the rights of indigenous peoples and undermining the power of all parts of chile, indigenous and nonindigenous, to come and join http://www.gn.apc.org/resurgence/articles/cabot.html

PENNY CABOT A DAM OF DESTRUCTION Building a new dam on the great river, Biobjo, in southern Chile will destroy the culture and livelihood of thousands of indigenous people. T HE TRAGEDY happening in southern Chile is a stark example of misguided economic development policies. The people who would be displaced by the mega-dam planned for the Biobio River have been very vocal in their opposition to this project. But who is listening? The 1994 Indigenous Law of Chile states that these indigenous people have the right to remain on their land and may not be forcibly removed. Yet, it seems clear that the government of President Eduardo Frei is determined that this project go ahead There is every indication that the government will decide that the 1982 Law of Electrical Services, enacted under Pinochet, overrules the Indigenous Law, weakening the rights of indigenous peoples and undermining the power of the fragile new democracy. In the rugged foothills of the Chilean Andes, 500 kilometres south of Santiago, the great River Biobio rushes by on its 380 kilometre journey to the Pacific Ocean, a journey that began 10,000 feet up in the glacial waters of Lake Galletue near the Argentinian border. The river runs down through a green panorama sprinkled with rare and endangered plant and animal species. Forests of protected araucaria or monkey-puzzle trees interrupt the line of the horizon. Rising above are the snow-capped, seismically active, peaks of Calliqui and Lonquimay. This is the second most seismically active region in the world.

8. Indigenous Peoples Videos And Films | FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS on the economic and social situation of many Indian peoples of the Andes rural livesof the Aymara and the Mapuche, chile's largest indigenous groups. http://www.frif.com/subjects/indigeno.html

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9. Chile: Mapuche Indigenous Peoples' March To The Capital City chile Mapuche indigenous peoples' march to the capital city. MapuchePress Release. The national march for the recognition of the http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/23/Chile.html

Chile: Mapuche indigenous peoples' march to the capital city Mapuche Press Release. The national march for the recognition of the Mapuche Nation and its rights is advancing towards Santiago and more than one hundred Mapuche have walked 200 kms in seven days. After seven days, more than one hundred Mapuche have walked some 200 kms from Temuco, Wallmapuche -Mapuche Territory- heading towards Santiago de Chile with the aim of achieving the recognition of the basic rights and freedoms of the Mapuche People. This march includes the participation of Mapuche of all ages, including boys and girls, aged men and women. In spite of the harsh conditions, none of the demonstrators has renounced to the objective of reaching Santiago, keeping up the good spirit with the strength stemming from the strong conviction of their legitimate demands and the historical memory of the struggle of the Mapuche People. The logistic difficulties regarding shelter and food supplies for the demonstrators implies that the number of participants cannot increase and thus remains unmodified. The departure from Temuco was particularly harsh due to the intense rain which fell during the first 25 kms. As a result of the low temperatures, many participants are beginning to fall ill, which makes medical attention and the purchase of medicines urgent. Lodging during the night supposes a great deal of spirit of self-sacrifice, having to sleep in schools, churches, communal centres and other places on cement floors and to have to wash with freezing cold water. Walking on asphalt with inadequate shoes is resulting in wounds which increase the demonstrators' suffering.

10. World Conference Against Racism Regional Prepcom For The Americas, Santiago Chil International Indian Treaty Council CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION OF indigenous peoples" World Conference Against Racism Regional Prepcom for the Americas, Santiago chile, December 36, 2000 http://treatycouncil.org/section_211414.htm

International Indian Treaty Council CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS “WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES" World Conference Against Racism Regional Prepcom for the Americas, Santiago Chile, December 3-6, 2000 Written intervention by the International Indian Treaty Council, an Indigenous NGO with ECOSOC Consultative Status In spite of the first two World Conferences to Combat Racism and their calls that Indigenous Peoples have a right to their lands and natural resources that must be protected, Indigenous Peoples continue to lose their lands at an alarming rate, seemingly a continuation of the "Conquest" of the Americas. Reuters recently reported on a recent contact with the Naua tribe in Brazil, thought to be extinct, who emerged from the Amazon to protest the creation of a national park on their lands. The reaction of Brazilian authorities quoted by Reuters, was that the Naua had been found in a national preserve and they would have to be moved: "No humans are allowed in the park, just the forest and the animals." The proposed OAS Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples would declare that the State has the right of ownership over the resources of the soil and sub-soil of Indigenous lands. Many American States (even since the first two World Conferences) have amended their Constitutions and laws to facilitate the privatization of indigenous lands. It is noteworthy, that the CERD Committee, in General Recommendation XXII, would require states to return stolen lands and territories to Indigenous Peoples, and ILO 169 would prohibit their continued theft.

11. Indigenous Protest In Santiago, Chile agencies, menace their territories. To express your solidarity to theindigenous peoples from chile you are invited to send messages to http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/1/Chile.html

Indigenous protest in Santiago, Chile A large Mapuche and Pehuenche march took place in Santiago on May 14th against the actions of the Chilean government in order to deny indigenous rights guaranteed by the Chilean law. The present protest was preceeded by the occupation of the headquaters of CONADI (Commission of Indigenous Development) last April and the cancellation by President Frei of the II Conference of the Indigenous Peoples Fund to be held in Santiago on May 14-15th. Indigenous from Chile are critical regarding the "development" projects of the government that, being supported and financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and other funding agencies, menace their territories. To express your solidarity to the indigenous peoples from Chile you are invited to send messages to: Mr. President of Chile Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago CHILE fax: (56 2)690 40 00 699 16 57 and Mr. President of the Interamerican Development Bank

12. Indigenous Peoples' Right To Land: International Standards And Possible Developm in constitutional democracies a lesson from chile and the United States , in CoehnCP; The human rights of indigenous peoples , Transnational Publishers, New http://www.soc.uu.se/mapuche/mapuint/nest1not.html

URL:http://www.soc.uu.se/mapuche Notes Back to Index These data have been provided by the World Bank. See: UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/SR.18, para. 27, p. 9. , Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1996, p. 432. See Mynnti K.; The beneficiaries of autonomy arrangements - with special reference to indigenous peoples in general and the Sami in Finland in particular , in: Suksi M. (edited by); Autonomy: applications and implications , Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 1998. Chapter V is devoted to Mapuche People (Chile) as case study of this paper. Their cosmology and way of life confirms without doubts this strong link with environment and all the elements of nature. See Chapter III para. b. for further discussion about the link with environment. Mapuche, for instance, means People ('che') of the Earth ('Mapu'). See Chapter II for collective rights to land and environment. See Kastrup J.P .; The internationalization of indigenous rights from the environmental and human rights perspective , Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 32.1, Winter 1997, p. 101.

13. The World Bank - Indigenous Peoples countries based on the concentration of indigenous peoples In the Andean region(Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, and parts of Colombia and chile), and Mesoamerica http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/essd.nsf/28354584d9d97c29852567cc00780e2a/8a9

14. About Our main goal is to contribute to attaining higher levels of recognition and respectin chile for the rights of indigenous peoples, and those who comprise said http://www.derechosindigenas.cl/ingles/quienes_somos/about.htm

About Us Ours is a Program from the Indigenous Studies Institute at Universidad de la Frontera, in Temuco, which is composed of a group of indigenous and non-indigenous professionals from several disciplines. Our main goal is to contribute to attaining higher levels of recognition and respect in Chile for the rights of indigenous peoples, and those who comprise said community. Along with this goal, our specific objectives are the following: - To generate higher levels of awareness in the Chilean State and society regarding the rights of indigenous peoples; - To contribute to generating a debate between indigenous peoples, and the State and society, enabling us to address multiple issues that currently have an impact on indigenous peoples, and to achieve harmonious interethnic relations; - To contribute to the implementation of legislative and political transformations that increase protection of these rights in Chile; - To provide international human rights and indigenous rights groups with information regarding the status of indigenous rights in Chile;

15. Choike : Indigenous Peoples indigenous peoples in Brazil indigenous organizations and policies, demarcation oflands Rigths Program Program from the indigenous Studies Institute at chile. http://www.choike.org/links/4/34/links.html

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16. Choike : Indigenous Peoples . See previous features useful info. indigenous peoples. Support thePewenche people's struggle to retain their ancestral lands in chile. http://www.choike.org/links/4/34/

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17. Chile: Some Mapuche Sign Pact, Others Protest pact with more than 1,200 indigenous representatives in a ceremony at the LaMoneda government palace, pledging respect for chile's indigenous peoples. http://www.converge.org.nz/lac/articles/news990812a.htm

Latin American Report Chilean Indigenous Leaders Arrested in Land Struggle Elderly Indigenous Women Tried by Military Courts (8/4/1999) Government Accused of Undermining Indigenous Rights (14/3/1999) Regional : Politics : X Military : Environment : Rights : Education : NZ Links : Aid/Relief : Economics : X Indigenous : X Health : Chile: 12 August 1999 Some Mapuche Sign Pact, Others Protest Although dozens of "lonkos" and "machis"the top authorities of Mapuche communitieswere present for the ceremony, others protested the pact. Before the signing, Mapuche and environmental demonstrators threw eggs and paint at La Moneda, and shouted at the indigenous representatives entering the building, calling them sellouts. Seven people were arrested, according to police. Protesters were especially angry that the pact makes no mention of the Mapuche communities' principal demand: the return of their ancestral lands. Mapuche communities have clashed in recent weeks with logging companies in southern Chile, who they say are usurping their lands. At least one of the people who attended the signing also protested; a Mapuche woman interrupted the ceremony to shout at Frei that he should "return our lands to us." [CNN en Espanol 8/5/99, with info from reporter Alberto Pando, Reuters, Associated Press; La Tercera 8/6/99] Weekly News Update on the Americas * Nicaragua Solidarity Network of NY http://home.earthlink.net/~dbwilson/wnuhome.html

18. The Communication Initiative - St2002 - Indigenous Peoples And Globalisation for the selfdevelopment of indigenous peoples are the Mexico in the 1990's, of indigenousmovements in allows the Mapuche organisations in chile and Argentina http://www.comminit.com/st2002/sld-6610.html

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19. Amnesty International - Library - Americas Indigenous Peoples - the descendants of the continent's indigenous peoples vocally reclaimed by the vastmajority of indigenous people from to the very tip of chile and Argentina http://web.amnesty.org/802568F7005C4453/0/80256AB9000584F680256C4E005B4BCD?Open

20. THE MAPUCHE PEOPLE OF CHILE SPEAKS (January 27th, 2001) CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS. “WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS AND RECOGNITIONOF indigenous peoples . THE MAPUCHE PEOPLE OF chile SPEAKS January 27th, 2001 http://www.treatycouncil.org/new_page_5610.htm

International Indian Treaty Council CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS “WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES" THE MAPUCHE PEOPLE OF CHILE SPEAKS January 27th, 2001 The community Pascual Coña (Lleu-Lleu Region- Chile) and the Mapuche Arauco-Malleco Coordinating Committee would like to denounce to the International community, the following: 1. Yesterday, Friday January 26, 2001, our community started the symbolic process of taking back the Mapuche land stolen, in this case by the Chilean entrepreneur Osvaldo Carvajal, through a peaceful demonstration that lasted only a few minutes. 2. This demonstration was quickly repressed by a large group of the Chilean police (uniformed and plain clothed) who used rubber bullets and tear gas. The protesters left the place and went back to their homes. 3. The police force continued its repressive action by chasing the Mapuche people into their homes. One of the demonstrators was wounded in his right eye by a rubber bullet and has been hospitalized in the Concepcion hospital. Ten people were arrested, 9 men and a woman. 4. Among the people arrested there are three Lonkos (leader of a Mapuche Community): Bautista Ancalao Necul, Lonko of the Tranicura I Mapuche Community, Jose Marihuen, Lonko of the Tranicura II Mapuche Community and Manuel Fren, Lonko of the Kuyinco Mapuche Community. Also arrested was Maria Llanquileo, leader of the Mapuche Arauco-Malleco Coordinating Committee. During the arrestment the police and their weapons threatened the Mapuche people with death.

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