Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Chile. This public holiday in Chile takes place on the Winter Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. Inti Raymi in Quechua, Machaq Mara in Aymara, Huata Mosoj in Colla, WeTripantu in Mapudungun and Xóosink in the language of the Selk’nam are the ways of referring to this day in the different languages.
More than two million Chileans identify as belonging to an indigenous group. Of these, 1.7 million identify as Mapuche, 156,000 as Aymara and 88,000 as Diaguita, the three most numerous indigenous peoples in Chile, according to data from the 2017 census. The Chilean State recognizes the Mapuche, Aymara, Rapanui, Atacameño or Likan Antai, Quechua, Colla, Chango, Diaguita, Kawésqar and Yagán as the main indigenous peoples of Chile.
Mapuche people in Southern Chile
The Dogs of Pride
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Today is the birthday, in 1819, of Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st. The Tales of Hoffmann remains part of the standard opera repertory.
In 1858 Offenbach produced his first full-length operetta, Orphée aux enfers (“Orpheus in the Underworld”), with its celebrated can-can; the work was exceptionally well received and has remained his most played. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0IyxvcH4E
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