The Mapuche communities, one of the poorest and most discriminated-against groups in Chile have been fighting increased militarised police presence and violence.
In recent months, Mapuche groups have been attacking and torching trucks, farms, homes and forest lands owned by lumber companies in an attempt to reclaim their ancestral lands.
The Mapuche communities make up roughly 12 percent of the country’s population but they are still not recognised by the Chilean constitution.
But Councillor Marcelo Vega Melinao thinks the "yes" vote in the referendum of the Pinochet era constitution, could signal the start of a new beginning for Mapuche and Indigenous rights in Chile.