This research project examines the historical similarities between the Mapuche struggle against Chile and the Palestinian struggle against the state of Israel. It discusses parallels and differences between methods of resistance, political ideology, and experiences of displacement within both groups. The two struggles by the Mapuche and Palestinians are analyzed as a representation of a global phenomenon of intersectionality between ethnic struggles as a result of transnational movement and globalized connections. This research will be significant to create networks of solidarity between these groups by providing academic insight not only on how the struggles relate, but into methods of resistance and political ideology from which they can learn and share with one another. The research method used for this project was predominantly qualitative and I collected data through interviews in Chile, as part of a study abroad trip in Santiago and Araucania. The interviews were conducted with the Palestinian refugee population in the country as well as Chile’s native indigenous community, the Mapuche. The type of respondents interviewed included 1st and 3rd generation Palestinians living in Chile, student activists, community organizers, religious leaders, and Mapuche Loncos (cheifs) and community representatives. The interview data and theoretical framing of this project is further contextualized through an examination of the histories of indigenous struggle of both the Mapuche and the Palestinians up until the 2000s. This project then compares and contrasts modern day issues that both groups have faced in their struggle around three themes: Environmental and social issues including land displacement; political responses to the state; and ideologies of autonomy. The paper concludes with a discussion of the intersectionality of activism between Mapuche and Palestinian activists living as minorities within Chile who are both active in each others cause. A crucial theoretical framing of this project is intersectionality.