RESISTANCE

Chile suffers evil societies transplanted, those born from the conquest of native peoples. Never conquerors recognized the primal possession of the territories to indigenous peoples. On the contrary, they have been stripped of all they had, and embarked on a policy extermination. They have committed genocide and ethnocide.

The Spanish empire was not the first. In its overseas expansion articulated the new laws of the Indies, to ensure continuity of labor and regulating the conditions of forced labor in mines and mills to not stall the production of gold and silver work.

There was no humanity in them, only interest. The rest is philosophical discussion. Modern racism is part of colonial capitalism of the sixteenth century, where slavery became the core of the process of capital accumulation. After independence, in Latin America there was no change; the Creoles they converted to the new masters of the countries and territories, took over the mainland. There were no peace or freedom for the native indigenous people, just blood and destruction.

Of course under the euphemism of "civilizational wars." So the agricultural frontier and the power of the landowning oligarchies expanded. The dominant mono-ethnic society, with their culture and world imposed the yoke of exploitation by adopting the formula of internal colonialism, a condition "sine qua non" to keep harvesting them, their wealth  and heritage.

The myth of racial superiority ethnic force in Chile and Latin America expressed daily. Not yet known, the limits of racial capitalism.

Mapuche, Maya, Cunas, Aymara, Tupi-Guarani are considered enemies of progress and country. In the XXI century are faced with policies of neoliberal  extermination. The expansion of the agricultural frontier, the transgenic soya monoculture, plantations of eucalyptus, the mining megaprojects,hydraulic, whose destination is the old Europe and China, and increased violence and yearning of the transnational corporations to appropriate the last spaces which were relegated to the late nineteenth century.

A death war has been declared against indigenous peoples. Natural resources in their territories make them prey to the new masters of the world. Water, minerals, flora and fauna, equivalent to gold and silver sixteenth century. Attended a date that has nothing to envy to that practiced by their counterparts in the nineteenth century version. The difference is found in the deployment of forces, war technology and legal ways to justify extermination. An international community deaf, dumb, preferring to look the other side of the table full of ethnocide.

At the end of the day, everyone gains in the medium and long term. Speculators, multinational corporations and landowners. In southern Chile it practiced all and every one of the guidelines to end the Mapuche people.

Michelle Bachelet's government has increased harassment policies with low-flying raids, evictions and burning of communal lands, keeping the militarization of the southern regions; at par, explores the dismantling of organizations, criminalizes their demands, consents torture and imprison Mapuche leaders.

For political leaders who have ruled the country after the end of dictatorship, whether emócratacristianos, socialists or right party, the Mapuche are a nuisance,whose existence should be reduced to a few pages of the books of history and anthropology.

The war of extermination, which has for centuries been submitted to the Mapuche as worthless, soulless without patriotic sense, treacherous, drunk, violent and dangerous. Best finish them once and for all. Pinochet tried it for 17 years by taking away their land, and tender these lands to companies and landowners, who were rubbing their hands with their new acquisitions. The crackdown on Lonko (Mapuche community leaders) involved the dismantling of decades of struggles and demands on their territories.

The Mapuche people suffering the consequences of a society, Chile as a whole, which despises. There is nothing worse than the colonial paternalism, constant treatment to which they were subjected. Former Socialist President Ricardo Lagos took this situation to a head inaugurating "policy of the new treatment of Mapuche". In short, they had to accept the terms offered by the State or suffer the consequences of rejecting them. Unexpectedly, shortly after, state violence against the Mapuche people was increasing, which prevails today and currently it maintains.

Winkul 

The Araucania Araucana or Pewen.

Araucaria is one of the sacred trees for the Native Mapuche people, and is called in our mapudungun language Pewen. The fruit of this tree, it is called pinon, in mapudungun = nguilliu.

The exquisite life of the Pewen or Araucaria, holds a profound mystic for the Native Mapuche people.

It is an extinction tree and from time of the Mesozioca period, more than 200 years ago. A millennial tree that coexisted with dinosaurs. There is 19 different species of Araucarians, the origin, the south part of the globe, Chile and Argentina.

The Pewen and the pinion fruit, have a great medicinal and nutritional value, as we know the Mapuche use this fruit as a high protein source and the tree extract for heal injuries.

Lawentun, the Mapuche ceremony, where the MACHI (Native Mapuche Healer) using herbs and the knowledge on the nature have the power to heal.

In the Lawentun ceremony, the sick person recibe the right medicine to survive, through knowledge and connection with the ancestors, the MACHI is the only person who knows what the sick person needs, the medicine comes from different plants and herbs, mostly of the time, from sacred plants for the Mapuche, and it could cure many unknown diseases.The Pewen and Maqui, are some used in these rites.

Does really exist the cure of any sickness? Do you think that the cure for any sickness could be hidden in the mother nature?

Are the Mapuche the ones, who has the secrets of heal with the knowledge of the nature that they know, or is just the sacred elements on the Mapuche land? that could one of reason why the Native Mapuche were take caring to much their territories and boundaries.

For the natives Mapuche, there are bad and good trees, all the environment of the native Mapuche is life, and everything that have a life is eternal, every being that coexist with them has a mystic meaning, they can communicate with them, respect and love each other.

The trees with the good spirit, those ones produce good  food for you and prosperity, and the ones with bad spirit, bad fruit and sickness.

There was a secret reason that nobody knows why the Native Mapuche warrior fought so many years and they were never conquered for anyone. why they were so strong? Could be the food or maybe the sacred place where they live? 

Lepillan

The American Sacred Fruit

From the beginning of time people have deemed certain plants and fruits as having extraordinary characteristics and as sacred. Generally it is accepted that anything of a religious nature is sacred, when not connected to religion sacred is anything possessing special properties. In Christianity we hear mention of the tree of good and evil (the forbidden fruit) and of the tree of life; which was guarded by cherubim with flaming swords.

The Bible makes several other references. For example Rachel believed that mandrake would make her fertile and thus enable her to conceive the child she longed for. It is alluded that King Solomon used mandrake as well to cast out demons. Although it is possible that the mandrake could not and can not eradicate infertility and that Rachel's usage of it was an act of personal belief; King Solomon's use of it speaks of mandrake as the go to plant. Likewise, during the Middle Ages mandrake was used as a cure, as an anesthetic; in magical terms it made flying possible.

"Mediterranean gold" also known as olive oil, was used by Mythical gods. Olive oil played an important role in the Greek economy as it was used as a light source. The Greeks also valued it for its nutritional value and curative properties, but beyond this they accredit it with a quality of purity, and a vehicle of purification. It was used religiously as a healing balm.

In the Americas the Native people also had their sacred plants and fruits. The Mayas had the Ceiba or Yaxche tree, which they taught was the doorway to the underworld and the sky. Undoubtedly the earth provides nutritional plants and trees necessary for the sustenance of men; in like manner the earth provides for the other necessities of men.

The Native Mapuche credited the food of the earth for their great strength. Particularly the Maqui berry, which was said to give warriors supernatural powers bordering on the magical. The Mapuche go down in history as one of the native American people who conquistadors were unable to conquer. Inca warriors and Spanish conquistadors were no match for the people of the land. Maqui berry has been used for centuries as a symbol of strength, in sacred ceremonies, for its curative properties and highly regarded for it nutritional content.

It wasn't until recently that the ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) deemed Maqui berry as the best super fruit, better than Acai Berries, Mangosteen, Noni,etc. Whereas the Mapuche have treasured the maqui berry for centuries; including it in religious ceremonies. Thus this fruit has been used ceremoniously as a symbol of power, good health, energy, strength and courage for the Mapuche warriors. The maqui berry use in religious worship cemented the belief that the earth, when revered, will unleash rare powers for the deliverance and protection of man.

Partaking of Maqui berry Mapuche traditionally links you to ancestral guardians and reconnects you to mother earth.

  Lepillan