Transformaciones normativas de los tratados mapuche (XVI–XIX)

The parlamentos constituted a space of normative co-creation developed by the Mapuche with the Spanish Crown during the colonial period (16th–19th centuries) and, later, with the Republic of Chile in the 19th century. Through these encounters, both parties agreed to mutually renounce the use of force and to co-regulate their relationship by means of treaties that shaped a legal tradition grounded in distinct protocols and concepts, granting Indigenous peoples the status of subjects of international law.
The actors involved thus formed a normative community that shared the practice of negotiating through parlamentos to regulate their coexistence within a context marked by the asymmetries inherent to colonization, first by the Crown and later by the Republic, where Indigenous legal agency played a crucial role in the emergence and consolidation of Mapuche resistance.