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Chile indigenous groups mark Columbus Day with protests
Mapuche activists clash with police, demanding return of traditional lands; decry government mistreatment

Al Jazeera, October 13, 2013
Protesters clashed with police in Chile’s capital Saturday during an anti-Columbus Day march organized by Indigenous groups, with activists calling for the return of ancestral lands and the right to self-determination on the 521-year anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas. Read the rest of this entry