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Argentina: Government Returns Land to Indigenous Communities

Written bySilvia Viñas
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Posted 15 September 2011 14 years ago

“On Saturday, September 10th, the Argentinian government returned 9,475 hectares (more than 23,000 acres) of land to the Tehuelche and Mapuche communities living new in Las Heras (located in the northern portion of the Santa Cruz province)”, Ryan Seelau at Indigenous News reports.

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