José Marimán is affiliate professor at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile. He is the author of Autodeterminaciòn: Ideas Políticas Mapuche en el Albor del Sieglo XXI and “Aukan tañi müleam mapun kimüm. Manie ñi pu kinüm” Combates por una Historia Mapuche: La Perspectiva de un Condor. He is an activist in human and political rights in association with Chileans and Mapuches on the Chilean political stage.