ETNIKA Leftaro
In the sixteenth century, several native populations of the New World faced the expansion of the Spanish monarchy. In today south-central Chile were the RecheMapuche people who steadfastly opposed to Spanish rule, inaugurating the War of Arauco. Among the leaders highlighted the Toqui reche Lautaro (Luan-taro or Leftraru = hawk or bird fast mapudungun), who would have been born around 1534 in the vicinity of TirĂşa in the range of Nahuelbuta, son of a lonko called CuriĂąancu. At just 11 years old he was captured and turned into yanacona or Indian service in the stable of Pedro Valdivia, an experience that gave him a great knowledge of the Spanish culture. Fundamentally it has a Hispanic view of Lautaro from what was reported by chroniclers of the sixteenth century. The Spanish advanced commanded by Pedro de Valdivia had founded cities with relative success and defeated native populations, subjecting them to the parcel and