By Julia C. and Ariel B.
The national dance of Chile is called the Cueca. The Cueca has Spanish and African influences. The dance looks like a rooster attracting a female chicken. The rooster acts crazy and the female chicken looks embarrassed and shy while they are doing the dance. When a boy likes a girl, instead of asking her out on a date, he will ask her to dance the cueca at festival or celebration.
The Mapuche people live in Central and Southern Chile. Traditional Mapuche live in big wooden huts with thatched roofs, which only one family can live in that is called a ruka. Before Spanish invaders, the Mapuche lived in rukas that were built far away from each other, but war and other fighting taught the Mapuche that it was safer to live closer together. The Mapuche Indians create instruments that are known as zamonas (pan flutes) and kultrunes (drums) which are used in special ceremonies. These talented indians sing folk songs, or tonadas, and these folk songs are often sad.
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