The following article analyses the emergence of the mapuche movement in the political arena, here we state that the demand for territory does not only imply physical space, but also and is in essence a political demand. Being in this context, conventional politics also a territory to recuperate for the mapuche movement in Chile. The main objective consists in analyzing how the struggle from within the institutions and for power may have contributed as a way of decolonization, as another repertoire among those used by the mapuche movement.