Daily Archives: 29/11/2011

On Saturday, November 26th, the Chilean government announced that it has resolved multiple land claims in the Araucanía region of the country. Specifically, seven Mapuche communities received lands from CONADI (the Chilean government’s Indigenous development corporation). In total, four Mapuche communities received farmlands and three other communities received lands for Indigenous cemeteries. Water rights (which are separate from land rights in Chile) were included with at least one of the farm parcels. Continue reading →