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Indigenous peoples in Chile or Native Chileans (Spanish: Chilenos Nativos) form about 13% of the total population of Chile. According to the 2017 census, almost 2,200,000 people declare having indigenous origins. [ 2 ]
Today the collective group makes up over 80% of the indigenous peoples in Chile and about 9% of the total Chilean population. The Mapuche are concentrated in the Araucanía region. Many have migrated from rural areas to the cities of Santiago and Buenos Aires for economic opportunities, more than 92% of the Mapuches are from Chile.
The Yahgan (also called Yagán, Yaghan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica) are a group of indigenous peoples in the Southern Cone of South America. Their traditional territory includes the islands south of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, extending their presence into Cape Horn, making them the world's southernmost indigenous human population.
After defeating the Spanish in central Chile, O'Higgins and San Martin followed the Spanish to southern Chile into Mapuche lands. After O'Higgins signed the provisional Constitution of 1818, and became the Supreme Magistrate of the Chilean people, he offered to the Mapuche a pact of friendship between each other, saying " Our brothers , the ...
The following is a list of indigenous peoples of South America. ... Pehuenche, south central Chile and Argentina; Picunche, formerly Central Chile
The proposed constitution is based on the assumption that there are 2.2 million indigenous people in Chile, or about 12% of the population. But many experts say the real figure is closer to ...
For at least 12,000 years, numerous indigenous peoples settled in central and southern Chile. The predominant Mapuche made up the overwhelming majority the population up until the Spanish conquest. During the colonial period, troops were sent out to the Americas by the Spanish Crown in order to protect distant colonies.
Chile's millennial president, Gabriel Boric, promised to mine differently. When Boric announced his ambitious plan in April to take state control over the country's lithium industry and expand ...