Lientur

{{Short description|Mapuches's militar chief}} thumb|Lientur depicted by Paul Dufresne in 1905 '''Lientur''' was the Mapuche toqui from 1618 to 1625. He was the successor to Loncothegua. Lientur with his vice toqui Levipillan was famed for his rapid ''malóns'' or raids. Because of his ability to slip back and forth over the Spanish border between its fortresses and patrols and raid deep into Spanish territory north of the Bio-Bio River without losses he was called ''the Wizard'' by the Spanish.

In 1625 his successor Butapichón was elected when he resigned his office when he felt himself to be too old and tired to continue as before.<ref>Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche,'''Descripcion histórico...''', TOMO I, CAPITULO CVII.</ref> However a cacique named Lientur continued to lead troops in the field.<ref>So says a contemporary, Diego de Rosales, '''Historia general de el Reyno de Chile, Flandes Indiano''', Tomo III, Libro VII, Cap. XII; however the later writer Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche,'''Descripcion histórico...''', TOMO I, CAPITULO CVIII, identifies him as the grandson of Lientur.</ref> He was present leading troops at the Battle of Las Cangrejeras.<ref>According to Rosales, '''Historia...''', Tomo III, Libro VII, Cap. XII; and Francisco Nuñes de Piñeda y Bascuñan, in his '''Cautiverio Feliz'''. Nuñes de Piñeda was a participant in the battle, was captured and spent some time as a captive with the Mapuche.</ref> A cacique of that name also participated in the Parliament of Quillín in 1641.

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== Sources == * Diego de Rosales, ''“Historia General del Reino de Chile”, Flandes Indiano'', 3 tomos. Valparaíso 1877-1878. ** [https://books.google.com/books?id=C34CAAAAYAAJ Historia general de el Reyno de Chile: Flandes Indiano Vol. 2] ** [https://books.google.com/books?id=HhHbyQaRGnkC Historia general de el Reyno de Chile: Flandes Indiano Vol. 3] * Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6VQDAAAAMAAJ '''Descripcion histórico-jeográfica del Reino de Chile TOMO I, precedida de una biografia del autor por don Miguel L. Amunátegui''', Coleccion de historiadores de Chile y documentos relativos a la historia nacional TOMO VIII, SANTIAGO DE CHILE: IMPRENTA DE LA LIBRERÍA DEL MERCURIO de A. y M. Echeverria, Morando Núm. 38. 1878] (History of Chile 1542-1788) * [https://books.google.com/books?id=FhcTAAAAYAAJ Juan Ignatius Molina, The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1809] * [https://books.google.com/books?id=C8C2FNNWaBEC José Ignacio Víctor Eyzaguirre, Historia eclesiastica: Politica y literaria de Chile, IMPRENTA DEL COMERCIO, VALPARAISO, June 1830] List of Toquis, pg. 498-500. * [https://books.google.com/books?id=rKUOAAAAIAAJ Anson Uriel Hancock, A History of Chile, Chicago, C. H. Sergel and Company, 1893]

Category:17th-century Mapuche people Category:People of the Arauco War Category:17th-century Indigenous leaders in the Americas Category:Toquis