Martin Barzilai

 Photographer
© Martin Barzilai

From Mapuche : the reconstruction cycle

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Ema Yolanda Veramar, 65 years-old, mother of nine children. She is the oldest woman of the Roble Carimallin community. Yola always live there. She says she has the gift to heal through medicinal plants. She says, "one day a man came by to ask me to sign a paper in favor of the third dam construction, on the Pilmaiquen River. I didn't sign. I've known this river forever. I collect my medicine out of it. Since I was a little girl my mother took me to the Ngen Mapu Kintuante (Mapuche's sacred spot). My mother is buried right on top of that place.