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Juana Calfunao Paillalef, a female Lonko and certainly one of the most outspoken defenders of the Mapuche cause stands in front of her "Ruka", the traditional circular wood and straw hut on her ancestral land. Having being imprisoned several times and in all for more then four years, has become an important symbol for the resistance of her indigenous people. She is known and admired both at home and abroad, though her many enemies inside the Chilean state consider her to be a "terrorist".