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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...The name "Araucanian" is of Spanish...about 400,000 Araucanians in Chile and...Affiliation. The Araucanian language...existence of an Araucanian culture by...aboriginal Araucanians were hunters...
Araucanian
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Araucanian Independent language family of South American Indians who live in Chile and Argentina. A loose confederation of Araucanian-speaking sub-tribes (including the Picunche, Mapuche, and Huilliche) offered strong resistance to the...
Lautaro
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...ca. 1535-1557) was an Araucanian Indian chieftain from southern...effect that, when the warlike Araucanians rose against the Spanish...the frontier region, the Araucanians under Lautaro's leadership...joining him or of death. The Araucanians had now captured a number...
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.
Temuco
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...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 museum.
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...
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Spanish poet. In Chile (1556-63) he fought against the Araucanian, and while there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered...and 1589. It tells of the courageous insurrection of the Araucanians and also relates the history of Chile and of contemporary...
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Although his purpose was to glorify Spanish arms, the figures of Araucanian chiefs, Caupolic á n, Lautaro, Tucapel, Colocolo...pride, and contempt of pain and death of these legendary Araucanian leaders and makes them national heroes today. Ercilla thus...
Guecubu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Guecubu Among the Araucanians, an Indian tribe of Chile, the guecubu were evil spirits who did all in their power to thwart and annoy the Great Spirit Togin and his ministers.
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...

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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...
poncho
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology poncho S. Amer. cloak. XVIII. — S. Amer. Sp. — Araucanian.
Dombey, Joseph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the British and he died in prison, but news of his death did not reach France until October 1794. Dombey introduced the Araucanian pine, named after him, into naval construction and presented to the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, a great number of specimens...

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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 ; ...to reconstruct Araucanian and Jesuit music...music, and the Araucanians were able to adopt...between Jesuit and Araucanian musics. In learning about Araucanian music of the seventeenth...cultures. (The Araucanians themselves, as...
Dermatoglyphics in Araucanian Indians from Patagonia and multivariate comparisons with other Argentinian aboriginal populations
Magazine article from: Human Biology; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...dermatoglyphics are reported for 94 Araucanian Indians from the Argentinian...Andes, reside parts of the Araucanian nation, who still speak...Matson et al. 1968). The Araucanians were finally subdued in the...dermatoglyphic characteristics of Araucanian Argentinian Indians. Because...
Weave an Araucanian headband.
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 12/1/2002; ; 682 words ; The Indians of South America were producing some of the most beautiful textiles in the Western Hemisphere, made of cotton and wool, long before the Spanish came. Let's make a Chilean-style accessory, the way Chile's native peoples do, on a loom (huitral, oo-ee-TRAHL), which they stand on the floor.
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 ; ...eyewitness account of the Araucanians tells how they managed...governor of Chile by the Araucanian Indians and of Spain...their fight against the Araucanians, especially the Mapuche...admired them and the Araucanian women, who were strong...much favoritism to the Araucanians, let us admire ...
The legend of the Pinyon nuts.
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; In the beginning, the Araucanian god, Ngueneche (noo-eh-NEH...and old people were starving. The Araucanian leader sent all the young men out...Aucan told his story and showed the Araucanian leader how to fix the pinyon nuts...
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...
Juan Ignacio Molina. The World's Window on Chile
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...of classification. He describes the Araucanians (today Mapuches) in great detail...that Molina tended to romanticize the Araucanians, and to present a somewhat simplistic view of Araucanian-white relations. Ronan analyzes one...
Cultivated wetlands and emerging complexity in south-central Chile and long distance effects of climate change.(Research)(Author abstract)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Sanchez 1997). Kuel are also found in other valleys in the Araucanian region, including the Budi and Imperial areas, but are less...central Andes, but never before in the southern cone and Araucanian region of South America. Raised fields in the Budi and Imperial...
Editor's message.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 12/1/2002; ; 579 words ; ...ingredients, and you can try your hand at weaving textiles the Araucanian (ahr-ah-KAHN-yan) way. You'll tour the graceful...RELATED ARTICLE Indigenous means native to a particular area. Araucanian refers to Chile's Indian tribes and their culture. Polynesians...