ABSTRACT
This chapter studies the gradual appearance of endangerment discourse of the modern sensibility, that had materialized so clearly in the ethnographic observers like Moesbach and men like Pascual. Indigenous evanescence discourses have constituted a standard theme in the literature on postcoloniality, on the cultural impact of British or French imperial expansion and New England-style settler colonialism. The chapter traces the conditions and the exact purpose, as Araucanians were nearing extinction, their words and deeds, their language and thought urgently demanded treasuring and preservation. The novel sentiment, began to feel the moral obligation to treasure and preserve their relics and memory, by way of words, images and things. In Chile, the disappearance of native populations gave rise to mixed feeling in national unity and settlement and now they are intercultural, bilingual education programs, agendas for the recovery of ancestral knowledge and teaching programs those who have forgotten what had once been the ancestors nature and their mother tongue.
