September 8th, 2008
Chile: Keeping Indigenous Languages Alive
“Mari, mari!” shout the excited group of 20 Chilean, Peruvian and Ecuadorean three- and four-year-olds, using the Mapuche language greeting to welcome a visitor to their intercultural day care centre in Santiago. Some of the pupils at the Adkintun preschool are descendents of the Mapuche, the largest indigenous group in Chile, while others belong to [...]
