The parlamentos of the Chilean frontier

On the Chilean frontier the Spanish crown negotiated with an unconquered indigenous people in general assembly, at a place the Mapuche named, in a form the Mapuche already used. This object holds only what two reachable witnesses establish — an eyewitness account of a Mapuche parlamento in 1629, with its procedure and vocabulary, and the dated record of the first two parlamentos at Quillín in 1641 and 1647 — and states which widely repeated claims about them it cannot support.