Definitely a bit more morbid than I usually choose for my articles, this one I found really interesting. This past Tuesday, Nicolesa Quintreman was "found floating in a reservoir she spent a decade trying to prevent from being created". In her life, she was a leader of the Mapuche Indians in Chile and "became a national figure in Chile during protests against the construction of a hydroelectric dam on tribal land". She literally died fighting for what she believes in. This tribe clearly didn't have a say when outsiders came in to construct the reservior. Being their own native land and after we have literally taken everything else away from them, I think this was very much overstepping our boundaries. It's a shame that Quintreman died in her protest, but hopefully now people can learn from it and prevent it from happening again. The native people have every right to have a say in how outsiders manipulate their land.
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