After
more than a hundred years, the re-edition of this
important text by chronicler Aurelio Díaz
Meza, has become an invaluable historical register.
Ministry
of Education's Culture Division, through its Native
Cultures Area, has re-edited the book "El Parlamento
de Coz Coz" (Coz Coz Parliament), an article
written by a reporter from "El diario ilustrado",
Aurelio Díaz Meza, in the year 1907, at the
Panguipulli area (south of Chile).
The book had the original title of "At the
Araucania: a brief report of the Coz-Coz Parliament.
January 18th, 1907" and it talks about the
Futa Trawun (large mapuche meeting), organized that
year, where they were accused the cruel and abusive
treatments against them. Among them, land robbery,
murders and total impunity endorsed by that time's
Tribunals.
The text author was invited by Fray Sigifredo de
Franenhands (a Capuchin missionary man sent from
Baviera) to the so-called Coz-Coz Parliament, which
gathered mapuche communities located between "Purulón,
Argentina, Villarrica and Pangipulli", a reunion
that had more than 2,000 assistants.
"The Indian Parliament at Coz-Coz was, without
any doubt, the most important reunion ever made
by the araucano Indians after their pacification
by Chile's State", explains the journalist.
He says the tale has the goal of "getting Government
and Society's attention for the weak and suffering
remains of the araucana race".
To this text, it is added the historical document
"Memories of the Chief Cacique Juan Catriel
Rien", a letter sent then to the Foreign Affairs,
Cult and Colonization Ministry in Santiago, in which
there are detailed several situations that affect
communities.
Of the 1907 edition, there is just one copy, which
is incomplete at the National Library, and some
limited photocopies. There is a digital version
-in Spanish- at www.serindigena.cl/libros. |
