Place, Violence, and Resistance: Impacts of Mining in the Chilean Andes

The indigenous community of Estacion San Pedro has turned a sense of place into an act of resistance to the impacts of mining on its homeland in the Chilean Andes. In 2007 San Pedrinos wrote to the headquarters of Chile's National Copper Corporation claiming compensation for historical dispossession of water, forced migration from their homeland, and the disintegration of their traditional way of life. San Pedrinos continue to return to their homeland despite the mining corporation's historical attempts to obliterate them. La comunidad indigena de Estacion San Pedro ha convertido su sentido de lugar en un acto de resistencia ante los impactos de la mineria en su tierra natal, localizada en los Andes chilenos. En 2007, los san pedrinos escribieron a la sede de la Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile exigiendo una compensacion por el despojo historico de agua, la migracion forzada de su lugar natal y la desintegracion de su forma de vida tradicional. Los san pedrinos continuan regresando a su tierra natal a pesar de los intentos historicos de la corporacion minera por destruirlos.