NAISA 2026 – NAISA WALLMAPU
Memories, Territories and Movements
July 22, 23, and 24, 2026
Temuko, Wallmapu
Invitation to the peoples and nations of the world to a space of listening, reflection and collective action
For the first time, our annual gathering will take place in Abya Yala, home to more than 800 Native peoples. Even in the twenty-first century, the extractivism and colonial settlements that started with the invasions of the sixteenth century continue to grow in this vast territory. These historical forces have shaped complex territorial, environmental, global and local imbrications of appropriation and dispossession, while resistance and re-existence persist. This process has transformed the environmental and climate conditions as well as the ways of life of Indigenous Peoples. In this context, and in solidarity with Black and other allied communities, Indigenous Peoples struggle for land recovery and care, for environmental, racial, and gender justice, and look to incorporate the diverse bodies, identities, languages, and cultures that sustain peoples and societies. In sum, it is a struggle for the continuity of life.
NAISA will take place in Temuco, a city situated in an ancestral territory of Abya Yala in which Mapuche People have lived for centuries. This ancestral territory extends over what hegemonically is represented as southern and central Chile and Argentina, but which, from the perspective of Mapuche People, is called Wallmapu. Here, the relationship to the land, the water, the tangible and non-tangible environment has been foundational for the Mapuche. Indeed, Mapuche means, “People of the Earth”–Mapu: land, earth, territory, space, universe; and Che: person, people. Memories and territories remain in tension and dispute, taking shape through multiple agencies and movements whose processes of decolonization converge in shared struggles and diverge in their particularities. In this 17th meeting of NAISA, we will have the opportunity to see, hear, and feel these resonances together. All are warmly invited. Pewayiñ Wallmapu Püle.
