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Forms of Mapuche's resistance

The conquest of the territory of Chile by the spanish men in XVI centruary, and later the foundation of Chile as a nation and an independent state has developed a lot of problems to the indigean population in the territory. One of them, the Mapuches, resisted to the both processes and actually the State recognized Mapuches as an autonomous; but in 1861 didn't respect the deals between the them and started the campain called "Pacification of Araucanía", which took away the lands of the native people. Today, this problem is still present, and far from disappear, the Mapuche people have been resisting and reivindicationg their territories.  

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I studied in a school close to my house, Colegio Siglo XXI, until 2015. I was really interested in the socials sciences, specially history, which was my favourite subject, so I knew that my superior studies would carry on in that direction. Also I took some art elective, so I learned a bit of techniques in art. After that, I started to work since march 2016: I worked one month in Cineplanet, five months in Pizzahut and this summer I worked two months in telemarketing. I took one year for work because I didn't feel capable to start studying inmediatly and I wanted time for myself and have a rest from the study. That new experience taught me a lot about life and it had a positive effect in my development as a person: I started to appreciate the effort to get my money and my own stuff, and now I consider myself as almost an economically independent person, because I saved money for my studies this year. Besides, I had a lot of fun in my first two jobs, I met a lot of people and made ...