On Chile rivers, Native spirituality and development clash For the Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous group and more than 10 percent of its population, a pristine river like the Truful Truful ...

When she was a child, Marileu Avendaño used to go to the river with her friends to play. She was born and raised in Petorca, a rural town of more than 10,500 inhabitants in central Chile. “I ...

Millaray Huichalaf, a Mapuche machi, or healer and spiritual guide, poses for a portrait in the Pilmaiquen River silhouetted by lights from the construction site of a hydroelectric plant in ...

MELIPEUCO, Chile — Mist suddenly arose from the Truful Truful River as it flowed below the snow-covered Llaima volcano, and Victor Curin smiled at the sun-dappled water spray.

MELIPEUCO, Chile (AP) -- Mist suddenly arose from the Truful Truful River as it flowed below the snow-covered Llaima volcano, and Victor Curin smiled at ...