* Mapuche ,-A South American culture of Chile and some regions of Argentina.

It has been suggested that ball lightning could be the source of the legends that describe luminous balls, such as the Mapuche Anchimayen of mythology ( of southern Argentina and Chile ).

However, Thilco, or more properly Chilco, is derived from the name by which the indigenous Mapuche people of Southern Chile and Southwestern Argentina referred to their native Fuchsia magellanica.

The Mapuche language, Mapudungun ( from ' earth, land ' and ' speak, speech ') is a language isolate spoken in south-central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche ( from mapu ' earth ' and che ' people ') people.

It is unclear whether or not the name " Arauca " is connected with the " Araucanian " or Mapuche Indians of Chile and Argentina, unless one tracks the thousand-year old migratory patterns of indigenous Andean peoples in South America.

The Omaha system has been found among some indigenous groups of Mexico, the Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina, the Dani tribe of West Papua, and the Igbo of Nigeria.

At the time the local indigenous Mapuche population of Araucanía and Patagonia were engaged in a desperate armed struggle to retain their independence in the face of hostile military and economic encroachment by the governments of Chile and Argentina, who coveted the Mapuche lands for economical and political reasons.

When he visited Argentina and Chile once, he met with hostility by the local media and cold shoulder by most of the Mapuche organisations.

Some 900, 000 Mapuche continue to live in Chile and Argentina.

The main forests are on the Quetrihué Peninsula ( Mapuche for ' myrtles ') and on Isla Victoria on the Nahuel Huapi Lake, within the Los Arrayanes National Park and Nahuel Huapí National Park, respectively, in Argentina.

Cariló ( from the Mapuche word " Green Dune ") is a beach resort town in Argentina.

Patoruzú uses many native expressions that give his speech an aboriginal flavor ; however, they derive from different tribes of Argentina and so are not consistent with each other ( e. g. Guaraní gurí, Mapuche Chei, etc.

He was born at Chimpay, a small town in Valle Medio, Río Negro Province, Argentina, the sixth child of Rosario Burgos and a Mapuche cacique, Manuel Namuncurá.

The devotion to Ceferino Namuncurá, the saintly young Mapuche, known popularly as The Lily of Patagonia (" El lirio de la Patagonia ") became very extensive in Buenos Aires and throughout Argentina.

Ceferino Namuncurá's first legacy is to his own nation and people: Argentina and the Mapuche people.

Quechua and Mapuche do not have tufts and resemble the Ameraucana.

The tribes of Peru are said to have adored great snakes in the pre-Inca days and in Chile the Mapuche made a serpent figure in their deluge beliefs.

Two flags have been documented as used by Mapuche troops.

The Mapuche people and the inhabitants of Easter Island have their own musical traditions.

The Mapuche have retained their ethnic identity and still speak Mapudungun.

The Huilliche spoke the Huillice language or Huilliche dialect of Mapudungun in historic times ( i. e., after the arrival of the Spanish ), but some people nowadays believe they might have spoken a ( possibly ) unrelated language before their Mapuche acculturation.

Indigenous gastronomies derived from groups such as the Quechua, Mapuche, and Guarani have also played a role.

Some critics claim large similarity with the Coalition for Change while others claim it to have done things poorly when it comes to reform in the system and dealing with national problems such as the Mapuche territorial claims, border limits dispute with its neighboring countries, health care system, educational system, and many other things since the end of the military regime in 1990.

It has also been in these regions were Mapuche communities have thrived best after the Chilean conquest.

Mapuche revindication organizations like Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco have sometimes used arson-attacks and death threats to back up their claims, other organizations like Consejo de Todas Las Tierras have sought and enjoyed international support from ONGs and their indigenous organizations.

The tribes of Peru are said to have adored great snakes in the pre-Inca days and in Chile the Mapuche made a serpent figure in their deluge beliefs.

Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán ( 1952 in Quechurehue, Cautín Province ) is a Mapuche Chilean poet and author whose works are written both in Mapudungun and in Spanish, and have been translated into many other languages as well.

Yet another contemporary chronicler, Pedro Mariño de Lobera, also wrote that Valdivia offered to evacuate the lands of the Mapuche but says he was shortly thereafter killed with a large club by a vengeful warrior named Pilmaiquen, who said that Valdivia could not be trusted to keep his word once freed.

It may derive from the Mapuche cauchu (" vagabond ") or from the Quechua huachu (" orphan "), which gives also a different word in American Spanish, guacho and Brazilian Portuguese gaúcho.

The name ' Puya ' was derived from the Mapuche Indian word meaning " point ".

The Picunche ( a mapudungun word meaning " North People "), also referred to as picones by the Spanish, were a mapudungun speaking Chilean people living to the north of the Mapuches or Araucanians ( a name given to those Mapuche living between the Itata and Toltén Rivers ) and south of the Choapa River and the Diaguitas.

The volcano is also known as Rucapillán, a Mapuche word meaning " House of the Pillán ".

Another contemporary chronicler, Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo writes that Valdivia offered as a ransom for his life the evacuation of all the Spanish settlements in the Mapuche lands and to give them large herds of animals, but this offer was rejected and the Mapuche first cut off his forearms, roasted and ate them in front of him before killing him and his accompanying priest.

The four separate optical telescopes are known as Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun, which are all words for astronomical objects in the Mapuche language.

His efforts at securing international recognition for the Mapuche were thwarted by the Chilean and Argentinian governments, who captured, imprisoned and then deported him on several occasions.

The first Araucanian king's present-day successor, Prince Philippe, lives in France and has renounced his predecessor's claims to the Kingdom, but he has kept alive the memory of Orélie-Antoine, and lent continued support to the on-going struggle for Mapuche self-determination.

Colonel Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez promised a reward for his head but the Mapuche decided to defend their unusual ally.

Jerónimo de Vivar in his Chronicle of the Kingdom of Chile ( 1558 ), describes Colocolo as one of the Mapuche leaders with 6, 000 warriors and one of the competitors for Toqui of the whole Mapuche army following the Battle of Tucapel.

The genus name derives from the Mapuche Native American name for a related species, Amomyrtus luma.

Common names include Arrayán ( from a Spanish name for the related European myrtle ), Kelümamüll ( orange-wood ) ( the Mapuche Native American name ), Shortleaf Stopper, Palo Colorado and Temu.

The Chilean Myrtle has medicinal uses for the Mapuche people.

Local aborigines ( Mapuche ) called another creature el Cuero ( leather ) for its smooth skin.