Chile is one of the twenty countries to have signed and ratified the only binding international law concerning indigenous peoples , Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989 . It was adopted in 1989 as the International Labour Organization Convention 169 . Chile ratified the convention in 2008 . In November 2009 , a court decision in Chile , considered to be a landmark in indigenous rights concerns , made use of the ILO convention 169 . The Supreme Court decision on Aymara water rights upholds rulings by both the Pozo Almonte tribunal and the Iquique Court of Appeals , and marks the first judicial application of ILO Convention 169 in Chile
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
Indigenous peoples in Chile