"This outstanding book provides an original and well-documented perspective on the history of indigenous people in Chile. Essential."--Choice

"Deeply impressive. . . . illuminating. . . . outstanding. . . . This sensitively written book provides readers with a full appreciation of the plight of the Mapuche in modern Chile."--International Affairs

"Describe[s] the variety of lived experience of the Mapuche and aims to take the reader beyond a simple narrative of repression and resistance."--Chileno

"A valuable and original work by its focus (cultural history), the scope of the period, and the cases examined (historiographical, anthropological, literary), which has not been done in Chile until now."--André Menard, University of Chile

"This book is an interdisciplinary tour de force grappling with some of the most sensitive racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism presently taking place in Latin America."--Arturo Arias, University of Texas at Austin

Joanna Crow traces the complex, dynamic relationship between the Mapuche and the Chilean state from the military occupation of Mapuche territory during the second half of the nineteenth century through the present day.