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Mapuche Cultural Activist
About Petrina Dávila
In 2019, during the height of Chile’s social uprising, Petrina Dávila led the reclamation of the ceremonial space at Temuco’s Plaza de Armas, not with protest banners, but with a three-day ngillatun ritual performed openly amid police barricades, weaving ancestral prayer into the rhythm of street chants. She co-founded the Mapuche Language Revitalization Collective in 2021, which trained over 300 community educators using oral transmission protocols adapted for urban classrooms and digital platforms, never transcribing sacred terms into Latin script without elder consent. Her work resists both state assimilation and extractive ethnography: she refuses academic interviews unless researchers commit to returning findings in Mapudungun first, and only after community review. Petrina speaks not of 'preservation' as museum curation, but of *küme mogen*, living well, as an active, contested practice rooted in land memory, seasonal knowledge, and the political weight of silence when speaking to power.
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- “How did the 2019 ngillatun in Temuco’s Plaza de Armas shift local protest tactics?”
- “Why does your language collective avoid Latin-script transcription of sacred terms?”
- “What does 'küme mogen' demand from non-Mapuche allies in land restitution cases?”
- “How do you teach seasonal knowledge to youth in Santiago’s public schools?”