elisa: [singing in mapudugun] [speaking spanish] narrator: the mapuche, chile's largest indigenous group, determined to save their language and identity. luis: [speaking spanish] [drums and cheering] narrator: the mapuche, not only chile's largest indigenous group, but also known for their courage and skills as warriors. they are one of the only indigenous peoples in latin america, which during centuries withstood total domination by the spanish conquistadors. their downfall came later. elisa: [chanting] [singing in mapudugun] [speaking spanish] narrator: elisa, on the footsteps of her ancestors, is fighting a present day battle to preserve for posterity the language and culture of her people, the mapuche, so that they and their heritage don't disappear forever. elisa: [speaking spanish] luis: [speaking spanish] elisa: [singing in mapudugun] narrator: elisa has traveled 700 kilometers south to her ancestral territory, where to this day the mapuchan are engaged in a bitter struggle to recover lands lost to both the spanish and then the chileans. her focus now, though, is to support her pe