Email from Marilyn Putney:
11Dec2020: Very interesting indeed! Is it your understanding that this piece aired--in Chile as well as EEUU--six days ago, 5 Dec 2020? Kudos to Lucia Newman for her reporting, however I must say I felt alarmed at being shown the priceless archive stored by Hugo Gallegos in his little museum at Angol. No way did that look safe from persons who might have an interest in its nonexistence. Pretty sure you guys know the name of the biggest forestry company in Chile and who owns it. And when I asked google where Trapehue is, (cited by the lonco Aniceto Narin as the place where he says the Mapuche agreed to a treaty of some kind in 1820) up pops what appears to be a plat with that name on a larger map labeled Pitrufquén, legend not shown. What a long view the lonco has! 1820 was ten years after independence and thirteen years before Chile had a constitution. Not surprising the treaty was, as he puts it, not respected.
Tuesday 15 Dec: So I've been tinkering for a few days to with impressions from this video, when this morning along comes a very penetrating interview published four days ago by Jacobin with a Chilean constitutional lawyer, Carolina Parraguez Piña. Per what she says, whether the indigenous can get respect in the constitutional convention looks tenuous.
Karl, you're welcome to--in fact I request you do--share this among the group in hopes of drawing out other respondents. Many thanks to Rob for linking us to the Newman video.
Marilyn Putney