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Araucanians
Araucanians , South American people, occupying most of S central Chile at the time of the Spanish conquest (1540). The Araucanians were an agricultural people living in small settlements. They are classified into three major cultural subdivisions, the Huilliche, the Picunche, and the Mapuche, the la... Read more
Valdivia
Valdivia city (1990 est. pop. 113,500), capital of Valdivia prov., S central Chile, on the Valdivia River. It is a leading commercial and industrial center. Founded in 1552, it was a fortress in the defense against the Araucanians and was a royalist center during the war of liberation. The city d... Read more
Ambrosio O'Higgins
Ambrosio O'Higgins , 1720?-1801, Spanish colonial administrator, b. Ballinary, Co. Sligo, Ireland. Educated at Cádiz, Spain, under the care of his uncle, who was a Jesuit, he went to South America as a trader. After an adventurous career he so distinguished himself in campaigns against the A... Read more
Domingo Santa María
Domingo Santa María , 1825-89, Chilean historian and statesman, president of Chile (1881-86). A liberal statesman, scholar, and author of several historical works, he took part in revolutions against the conservative regime of Manuel Montt and was twice exiled (1852-53, 1859-60). In his admin... Read more
Pedro de Valdivia
Pedro de Valdivia , c.1500-1554, Spanish conquistador, conqueror of Chile. One of Francisco Pizarro's best officers in the conquest of Peru, educated, energetic, somewhat less cruel and avaricious than his fellow conquerors, Valdivia obtained permission from Pizarro to subdue Chile. In Jan., 1540, h... Read more
shaman
shaman , religious practitioner in various, generally small-scale societies who is believed to be able to diagnose, cure, and sometimes cause illness because of a special relationship with, or control over, spirits. Different forms of shamanism are found around the world; they are also known as med... Read more
South American Natives
South American Natives aboriginal peoples of South America. In the land mass extending from the Isthmus of Panama to Tierra del Fuego, Native American civilizations developed long before the coming of the European. It is estimated that about 30 million Native Americans lived in South America at the... Read more
Chile
Chile , officially Republic of Chile, republic (2005 est. pop. 15,981,000), 292,256 sq mi (756,945 sq km), S South America, west of the continental divide of the Andes Mts. Chile is bordered by Peru on the north, Bolivia on the northeast, Argentina on the east, and the Pacific Ocean on the west and ... Read more
Native American languages
Native American languages languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent. have become extinct, but many of them are still in use to... Read more
Argentina
Argentina , officially Argentine Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 39,538,000), 1,072,157 sq mi (2,776,889 sq km), S South America. Argentina is bordered by Chile on the west, Bolivia and Paraguay on the north, Brazil and Uruguay on the northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Buenos Aires ... Read more

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Araucanians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Araucanians ETHNONYMS: Huilliche, Lafquenche...was the term used to designate the Araucanians occupying the south-central area of...territory but now is the term used by all Araucanians. The terms "Huilliche" (people of...
Lautaro
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...good effect that, when the warlike Araucanians rose against the Spanish in 1553, he...Spanish city of the frontier region, the Araucanians under Lautaro's leadership ambushed...choice of joining him or of death. The Araucanians had now captured a number of horses...
Chile
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...x25A0; CHILEANS … 119 ■ ARAUCANIANS … 126 The people of Chile are called...percent Amerindian (native people, mainly Araucanians). The population of pure Araucanians numbers as many as 600,000.
Pedro de Valdivia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the colony was not prosperous; gold was scarce and the Araucanians warlike. To secure additional aid and confirm his claims...conquest was complete. Toward the end of 1553, however, the Araucanians under Lautaro revolted. Valdivia, sallying forth with 40...
Puelche
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Argentine Pampa, hunting guanaco and rhea. Little is known of the Puelche prior to the 18th cent. Accomplished horsemen fighting with lance and bola, they were not very numerous and were absorbed in the 18th cent. by the Araucanians .
Ambrosio O'Higgins
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...he went to South America as a trader. After an adventurous career he so distinguished himself in campaigns against the Araucanians that he was appointed (1789) governor of Chile. He was later made marquis of Osorno and served capably as viceroy (1796...
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...cantos is divided into three parts, published in 1569, 1578, and 1589. It tells of the courageous insurrection of the Araucanians and also relates the history of Chile and of contemporary Spain. Bibliography: See translation by W. Owen (1945).
Temuco
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...point from which the colonization of S Chile was begun, chiefly by German immigrants. The region was occupied by indigenous Araucanians; on a hill near Temuco, the treaty ending the last serious Araucanian uprising was signed (1881). Temuco has an Araucanian...
Spanish American literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga , a soldier who described the conflict between the Spaniards and the Araucanians of Chile. The epic tradition was continued by Diego de Hajeda and Bernardo de Balbuena. Among the first of those born in...
shaman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...by assuming the dress and attributes of a woman; this practice is rare but has been found among the Chukchee. See Dyak , Araucanians , Arapaho , Cheyenne , and Ute . Bibliography: See M. Eliade, Shamanism (tr. 1964); M. J. Harner, ed., Hallucinogens...

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Chile
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...first Spanish contact in 1536 the dominant Indian group, the Araucanians, were theoretically subject to the INCA empire, but in...realm. Though they resisted Spanish encroachments, the Araucanians were gradually pushed south of the Bío Bí...

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British romantics and native Americans: the Araucanians of Chile.
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; SINCE EDWARD SAID'S GROUNDBREAKING ORIENTALISM (1978), MUCH OF the critical impetus within Romantic Studies has been in the area of colonialism and its effects. Developments have been in two directions: in one a number of scholars have questioned the binary relationship implicit in the work of Said
La Araucana: a powerful American epic.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...peoples. His eyewitness account of the Araucanians tells how they managed to escape first...conquistadors in their fight against the Araucanians, especially the Mapuche tribe, which...fierceness. Ercilla was so impressed by the Araucanians that he began to write about them...
Viewing the ethnomusicological past: Jesuit influences on Araucanian music in colonial Chile (1).
Magazine article from: Latin American Music Review; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Catholic doctrine through music, and the Araucanians were able to adopt the European-style...music and dance of both cultures. (The Araucanians themselves, as a preliterate culture...referring to the native peoples of Chile as Araucanians (araucanos). This term was disseminated...
ARAUCO EN EL IMAGINARIO DE LOPE DE VEGA
Magazine article from: Alpha; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Oa, auto sacramental Abstract: The Araucanians in the Literary Imagination of Lope...about of the Arauco territory and the Araucanians as well as the verbal resources he used...the people of his time. Key words: Araucanians, Lope de Vega, Ercilla, Oa, eucharistical...
Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...considerable attention to the most successfully independent Araucanians of Chile ("Wild Men Extraordinary"). Their dense populations...to their rapid adaptation to guns and horses, allowed the Araucanians to keep the Spaniards from their homelands south of the Biobio...
Juan Ignacio Molina. The World's Window on Chile
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...the Linnaean system of classification. He describes the Araucanians (today Mapuches) in great detail, their customs and traditions...same time Ronan notes that Molina tended to romanticize the Araucanians, and to present a somewhat simplistic view of Araucanian...
VANDERBILT ANTHROPOLOGIST ELECTED TO AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/16/2007; 700+ words ; ...Araucanian people of Chile have been described as a "tour de force" and he has actively supported the interests of the Araucanians' descendants, the Mapuche, when they have been threatened by political changes. He currently co-directs with the University...
McKinley Open House McKinley ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/1/2007; 629 words ; ...of Chilean Araucanian Landscapes," will focus on mounds and monuments built between the 13th and 19th centuries by the Araucanians, or Mapuche. The lecture is at 5:30 p.m. at the ICC Auditorium at Georgetown University and is free. For more information...
Dermatoglyphics in Araucanian Indians from Patagonia and multivariate comparisons with other Argentinian aboriginal populations
Magazine article from: Human Biology; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...withstood the Inca invasion and for almost three centuries also resisted Spanish colonization (Matson et al. 1968). The Araucanians were finally subdued in the second half of the nineteenth century and today live in small communities in southern Chile and...
A Visit to the Ranquel Indians.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...by 1870. Contact between Ranqueles and Argentines was extensive. Moreover, the Ranqueles had been heavily influenced by Araucanians migrating from the south and west. Eva Gillies's endnote annotations are helpful and concise, more explanatory than interpretive...