Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people have played their own version of field hockey for countless generations. Roughly 2 million Mapuche Indigenous people live across Chile and Argentina. Many have moved from their ancestral lands to the city. But they have not forgotten their past. They are using their ancestral sport, palín, to breathe life into their culture and traditions. Using their sport as a type of resistance.

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Mapuche sports help Indigenous Chileans revive culture: https://theworld.org/stories/2024/12/24/mapuche-sports-help-indigenous-chileans-revive-culture

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How Indigenous field hockey is reviving Mapuche culture | Stories of Resistance