The culture history of the Mapuche

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Mapuches persecuted through the courts for defending the right to educationy: A-Infos News Servcie, August 1999. In what is today Argentine Patagonia is the Mapuche community of Futa Huau-caadon Grande. It has no access to basic facilities, including a school for its children. In April 1997 it asserted its fundamental rights as a people and reclaimed the school building, the Mapuche cemetery and the 50 hectares belonging to the former state school no.76.