How to Use Mapuche in a Sentence
Mapuche
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But the lands where those trees grow were taken from an indigenous group known as the Mapuche.
—Eduardo Thomson, Bloomberg.com, 2020-10-15
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There is also a group of Indigenous people, called the Mapuche, who live near where the dam is being built.
—Daniel Merino, The Conversation, 2023-06-01
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But the Mapuche—afflicted by political marginalization, endemic poverty, and land grabs by outsiders—have remained a restive social force.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2022-06-06
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The tree's large pine nuts are a favorite food of austral parakeets as well as the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina -- and both could help the evergreens survive.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2022-08-20
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In La Araucania, the heartland of the indigenous Mapuche people, nearly 74% voted against the document.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2022-09-05
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As the film begins, Gallardo Vásquez provides a brief yet vivid primer on Mapuche culture and trepidatiously steps out of their comfort zone and into a divine set of days filled with rituals that mingle alongside rural life in the south of Chile.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 2023-08-24
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