Amerindios was a folk music

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 group from Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 which was active in the years between 1969 and 1973. It was one of the many artists of the Nueva Canción

Nueva canción

Nueva canción is a movement and genre within Latin American and Iberian music of folk music, folk-inspired music and socially committed music...

-movement, but unlike many other Nueva Canción-artists, Amerindios also incorporated instruments such as electric guitar

Electric guitar

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s. The group was formed in Santiago

Santiago, Chile

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 in 1969 by Mario Salazar and one of the three founders of Quilapayún

Quilapayún

Quilapayún are an instrumental and vocal folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential exponents of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement. Formed in Chile during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with the revolution that occurred in the popular music of the...

, Julio Numhauser

Julio Numhauser

Julio Numhauser is a Chilean musician of the Nueva Canción-movement. He founded the folk music group Quilapayún in 1965 together with the brothers, Julio Carrasco and Eduardo Carrasco, where he stayed until 1967, and he later founded another folk music group, Amerindios, together with Mario...

. Patricio Castillo

Patricio Castillo (musician)

Patricio Castillo is a Chilean musician and former member of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún.-Biography:Castillo was born into a musical family; both of his parents were classical musicians and pedagogues, his father a violinist and his mother a pianist. Early in his life Castillo defined...

 joined the group later in 1971, two years before the group decided to break up.

Discography

• 1970 - Amerindios
  Amerindios (album)
  - Track listing :Side A# Nixon # Una vez un yankee yo encontré # Los Vietnamitas # Sr. Juez# ¡Achís! ¡Achís! Qué catarro# La disparada Side B# Juan Verdejo - Track listing :Side A# Nixon (with Sergio Ortega)# Una vez un yankee yo encontré (with Sergio Ortega)# Los Vietnamitas (with Carlos Puebla)#...
  
  
• 1973 - Tu sueño es mi sueño, tu grito es mi canto
  Tu sueño es mi sueño, tu grito es mi canto
  Tu sueño es mi sueño, tu grito es mi canto is the second album by the folk music group Amerindios.- Track listing :# El barco de papel# Los colihues# Mis raices heridas # Los niños cuando niños# Valparaiso 4 A.M. / Cueca beat...