145 Years of Temuco: Uncovering the Overlooked History of Founding Amidst Mapuche Invasion and Dispossession
Temuco celebrates 145 years amid festivities that overlook its warlike origins: the military occupation of Mapuche lands. While authorities revel, descendants of chief Huete Rucán, one of the ancestral landowners, raise their voices for memory and justice. Behind the explosive urban growth lie massacres, profaned cemeteries, and a historical debt silenced by official discourse.
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