Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile

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First Lady Hillary Clinton conversing with event attendees at the opening of the Internado Centro Cultural Mapuche in Temuco, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteers Will Cady 1992-1994 on right and Quinton Harris 1995-1998 attend the inauguration of the Internado Centro Cultural Mapuche, and discuss its mission with their guest, First Lady Hillary Clinton, 19 April 1998.
Peace Corps Volunteers John Buzenberg and Gail Bakken Goodhue meet with the Artesania Araucana Instituto Indígena, Icalma, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteers John Buzenberg and Gail Bakken Goodhue worked with Mapuche artisans in Icalma. John Buzenberg worked with the Artesania Araucana Instituto Indígena in Temuco to set up an artisan sales area. Gail Bakken Goodhue worked with Mapuche weavers and wood carvers in the Llaima Volcano and Laguna Iclama regions to sell their crafts to supplement incomel, 1967
Peace Corps Volunteer John Vinton examines a woman's pottery in Cobquecura, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer John Vinton worked with potters. Peace Corps volunteers frequently worked with artisans to create income generating cooperatives and industries selling their art.
Peace Corps Volunteer Gage Skinner in traditional dress sitting with Mapuche peoples, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Gage Skinner served in Chile between 1964-1966 under the supervision of the Dirección de Asuntos Indígenas (DAI). Skinner helped start the successful Mapuche beekeeping venture and proposed marketing the sticks and balls from the traditional Mapuche game of chueca, which sold out in Temuco. Next came drums, flutes, wooden masks, and cradle boards. Profits from the sales went one-quarter to the crafts person and the rest to the Reducción Quetrahue's women's organization for the purchase of wool and dye for weaving projects. After the Peace Corps, Skinner became a cultural anthropologist, with a specialty in Native American studies. Skinner eventually donated his extensive collection of Mapuche arts and crafts to San Diego's Museum of Man.
Peace Corps Volunteer Bill Davis does a Mapuche dance with his neighbors, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Bill Davis 1965-1967 worked in rural community development projects in the campo near Lautaro. Davis worked with reforestation and the improvement of rabbit raising methods projects in 1967.
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth's fish packing plant, San Antonio, Chile, 1998
Peace Corps Volunteer Pete Wadsworth ran a fish packing plant in San Antonio where he froze and packed fish he bought from the artisan fisherman cooperative that he helped establish and began advising local fishermen in the port of San Antonio in 1967. In April 1974 Wadsworth moved back to San Antonio to help run the artisan fisherman cooperative. In 1976 Wadsworth started exporting fish and built a small freezing plant. In 1982 Wadsworth and his Chilean partners devised a new way to catch swordfish that increased the total annual catch from 140 tons in 1978 to 6500 tons in 1992.
Peace Corps Volunteers Warren Howell and Paul Smith working with a credit savings and loan cooperative in Valdivia, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteers Warren Howell and Paul Smith worked with a credit savings and loan co-op in Valdivia, Chile, 1966.
Peace Corps Volunteers Jim Olenhauser (left) and Buso Warner demonstrate tree planting for a reforestation project, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteers Jim Olenhauser (left) and Buso Warner worked in rural community development educating and working with the reforestation of the region in 1966.
Peace Corps Volunteer Larry Kness converses with two other men on a construction site in Barros Arana, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Larry Kness worked in urban community development as a civil engineer and master carpenter with community members in Barros Arana on a co-op and community center building, 1966.
Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth accompanying artisan fisherman on a boat, San Antonio, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth ran a fish packing plant in San Antonio where he froze and packed fish he bought from the artisan fisherman cooperative that he helped establish and began advising local fishermen in the port of San Antonio, Chile, 1967.
Peace Corps Volunteer Fred Stoffel lecturing a class on electricity at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Temuco, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Fred Stoffel taught first year students about electricity and electrical engineering at the Universidad Técnica del Estado in Temuco, Chile, 1965/1967.
Peace Corps Volunteer Dave St. John, left, working a cinva ram machine with fellow workers at Población Jose Maria Caro, Nueva Palena, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Dave St. John 1965-1967 worked in urban community development in Nueva Palena, Chile. St. John worked with the community to build homes during Chile's mid-1960s urban housing deficit. This self-help housing project received a lot of publicity from New York Times reporter, Juan de Onis, philosopher Walter Lippmann, Robert Kennedy, and President Nixon.

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