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A Collaborative Exploration of Mapuche Medicine as a Form of Resistance against Chilean-Imposed Westernization
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2025-May-24
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The Mapuche are an Indigenous nation who have historically lived in southern Chile and Argentina, where their ancestral territory, Wallmapu, is located. Although the Mapuche largely succeeded in resisting Spanish conquest, the establishment of the Chilean Republic in 1810 and...
