Qualla: Mapuche uprising of 1655 https://qualla.com/mapuche-uprising-of-1655 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Mapuche uprising of 1655 https://qualla.com/mapuche-uprising-of-1655 Mapuche uprising of 1655: Introduction https://qualla.com/mapuche-uprising-of-1655/ On the morning of February 14, 1655, the war that Spain thought it was winning turned on it all at once. From Osorno in the deep south to the Maule River far to the north, Mapuche fighters rose in a single coordinated blow, falling on the scattered estates, forts, and households of the Spanish colony. It was not a sudden eruption of rage. It was an answer, delivered by people who had watched their relatives carried off in chains, to a system that had made the hunting and selling of human beings a routine business of the frontier.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/t/m/mapuche-uprising-of-1655-wp/66tm-mapuche-uprising-of-1655-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mapuche uprising of 1655: A Colony Built on Capture https://qualla.com/mapuche-uprising-of-1655/ To understand the rising, you have to understand what the Spanish had legalized. After an earlier Mapuche revolt destroyed a string of southern cities, the Spanish crown declared in 1608 that Mapuche taken in war could be enslaved, reasoning, in the language of the era, that thos...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/t/m/mapuche-uprising-of-1655-wp/66tm-mapuche-uprising-of-1655-a-colony-built-on-capture.mp3 0:06 2 full Mapuche uprising of 1655: The Spark https://qualla.com/mapuche-uprising-of-1655/ The immediate triggers piled up fast. The 1651 Parliament of Boroa, a negotiated settlement, had bound the Mapuche with terms they resented, including a prohibition on carrying weapons without Spanish leave. Then came the slave hunters. The colonial officer Juan de Salazar drove ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/t/m/mapuche-uprising-of-1655-wp/66tm-mapuche-uprising-of-1655-the-spark.mp3 0:06 3 full Mapuche uprising of 1655: The Rising https://qualla.com/mapuche-uprising-of-1655/ When the blow fell on February 14, its scale stunned the Spanish. Contemporary accounts describe more than four hundred estancias destroyed in the broad band of country between the Bío Bío and Maule rivers. Mapuche held in bondage freed themselves and joined the fight. Livestock ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/t/m/mapuche-uprising-of-1655-wp/66tm-mapuche-uprising-of-1655-the-rising.mp3 0:06 4 full Mapuche uprising of 1655: Reckoning and Aftermath https://qualla.com/mapuche-uprising-of-1655/ The uprising broke the colonial government as surely as it broke the frontier. Blame for the disaster fell on Acuña Cabrera and his slave-raiding kin, and on February 20 the town council of Concepción took the extraordinary step of deposing the governor, an authority appointed by...

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