2001-10-14 04:00:00 PDT Cayun, Argentina-- At age 83, Filomena Cayun is missing several front teeth and needs the help of a long stick to hike the wooded Andean trails of Lanin National Park. But her ...

VILCUN, Chile – The arson deaths of an elderly couple in their ranch home on land claimed by Mapuche Indians have cast a cold light on the indigenous group's struggle in southern Chile's Araucania ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – A Mapuche Indian who was shot in the neck during an arson attack was convicted on Thursday of killing an elderly couple in a region of southern Chile that the indigenous group claims ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2013 file photo, a firefighter, left, works to extinguish the flames of the home of a non-Mapuche landowner ...

Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has turned to dictatorship-era ...

SANTIAGO, ChileSANTIAGO, Chile — Chile’s national police force on Friday fired an officer convicted of killing a Mapuche activist five years ago, a death that has been cited repeatedly by the Indians ...

CHILLAN, CHILE — The case of a jailed indigenous-rights activist who has been on a hunger strike for more than 100 days has galvanized support for restive Mapuche Indians seeking the release of ...

SANTIAGO, ChileSANTIAGO, Chile — An elderly couple whose family’s vast landholdings have long been targeted by Mapuche Indians in southern Chile were killed in an arson attack early Friday while ...

Chile's government said Friday that many of the wildfires burning out of control in Patagonia were set intentionally, and blamed a Mapuche Indian group that has long struggled to regain its ancestral ...

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Reporting from Santiago, Chile — Pope Francis will step into the middle of one of South America’s longest-running conflicts Wednesday when he visits the largely indigenous Araucania region of Chile.

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2013 file photo, a firefighter, left, works to extinguish the flames of the home of a non-Mapuche landowner in Vilcun, on the outskirts of Temuco, Chile. The elderly couple, ...