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Don Mario Mila Millalen, 69 is a senior Mapuche political leader, known in their language as the Lonko of the Lonko's. He's been a political activist all his adult life. He has been involved in governmental meetings dating back several Chilean presidents, including meetings with former General A. Pinochet in an attempt to improve the living and working conditions of the Mapuches and above all else resolve the hotly disputed matter of the expropriation of their ancestral lands.