Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Chile, a Mapuche indigenous woman was picked to lead efforts to draft a new constitution on Sunday. It's a dramatic turning ...

PEDRO CAYUQUEO, Chile(AP) — The Mapuches, Chile’s biggest Indigenous group, have endured centuries of battle. They resisted conquest first by the ancient Incas, then by the Spanish. They fought as the ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – In the end, indigenous leader Nicolasa Quintreman was buried apart from the plot of land where she had lived nearly her entire life. Her decade-long battle against the construction ...

Necklaces with the Mapuche flag design are displayed for sale in Santiago, Chile, on July 29. Popular singer Ana Tijoux has waved the multicolored Mapuche flag during her concerts and raps about their ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – A Mapuche Indian who was shot in the neck during an arson attack was convicted on Thursday of killing an elderly couple in a region of southern Chile that the indigenous group claims ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Mapuche indigenous leader was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Friday for the arson murders of an elderly couple who died defending their property from hooded trespassers.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Nestled between high-rise buildings on a busy street in Chile’s modern capital is a straw hut that’s a sign of growing respect for the Andean country’s long-disdained indigenous ...