VILCUN, Chile – The arson deaths of an elderly couple in their ranch home on land claimed by Mapuche Indians have cast a cold light on the indigenous group's struggle in southern Chile's Araucania ...

2001-10-14 04:00:00 PDT Cayun, Argentina-- At age 83, Filomena Cayun is missing several front teeth and needs the help of a long stick to hike the wooded Andean trails of Lanin National Park. But her ...

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2013 file photo, a firefighter, left, works to extinguish the flames of the home of a non-Mapuche landowner in Vilcun, on the outskirts of Temuco, Chile. The elderly couple, ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – 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) — Chile’s national police force on Friday fired an officer convicted of killing a Mapuche activist five years ago, a death that has been cited repeatedly by the Indians as ...

CHILLAN, CHILE — The case of a jailed indigenous-rights activist who has been on a hunger strike for more than 100 days has galvanized support for restive Mapuche Indians seeking the release of ...

Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has turned to dictatorship-era ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — In its bid to quash a land rights movement among the restive Mapuche Indians, the Chilean government is making improper use of anti-terrorism laws crafted two decades ago by the ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — 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 ...

Chile's government said Friday that many of the wildfires burning out of control in Patagonia were set intentionally, and blamed a Mapuche Indian group that has long struggled to regain its ancestral ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The plight of Chile's indigenous Mapuche people and their struggle for land rights will come under the spotlight as Pope Francis travels to the country on Monday ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — 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 ...