212:"The most precious thing that we still keep as a family in our tribe is the celebrated Blue Stone found by my grandfather Calfucurá on the shores of a lake in Chile in his youth. This encounter was at the root of his name, Calfucurá, which means blue stone. He always carried it with him, believing that it held the destiny and the future of himself and his entire tribe. This Blue Stone was inherited by my deceased father , and as long as we kept it with veneration and respect, we were lucky and prosperous. I inherited it after the death of my brother Julián, when I took command of the tribe. Now we keep it in a chest with the colonel's two swords."
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The name
Calfucurá means 'blue stone' in the Mapuche language. Juan Calfucurá was given this name because of a blue stone he found as a boy. He kept and venerated the stone for the rest of his life. Juan Calfucurá's grandson Alfredo Namuncurá (meaning 'foot of stone') is attributed this statement
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The Blue Stone is the source of many legends. Some believe it was given to Juan
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tribe. Calfucurá succeeded in ending the military power of the
Boroanos when he massacred a large part of them in 1834 during a meeting for trade.
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Confederación indígena de Calfucurá (1830-1870)".
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260:George v Rauch (1999).
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902:Calfucurá
594:Tehuelche
564:Pehuenche
554:Mapochoes
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453:Mythology
418:Chemamull
413:Butalmapu
383:Tsesungún
366:Huilliche
172:Argentina
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118:Patagonia
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