Chilean
Policarpo Toro , head of the annexation of the island to Chile in 1888 .
In 1887 , Chile wants to annex the island to the Chilean territory, so the captain commissioned Chilean NavyPolicarpo Toro , who conducted negotiations through the purchase of land on the island at the request of the Bishop of Valpara�so, owner of 600 acres along the Salmon Brothers, Dutrou-Bornier and John Brander, Tahiti, that although, according to tradition, the land could not be sold.
Then on September 9 of 1888 , Chile got the signing of a treaty, represented by Atamu Tekena . The document was written in Spanish and one in Rapanui mixed with Tahitian . The Spanish text speaks of transfer of sovereigntyto Chile, while reserving to the chiefs who attended the agreement, the titles of which were invested and they enjoyed at the time, without reference to the ownership of the land . In turn, the text mixed with Tahitian Rapanui not speak for lands and uses the concept of " kona mau hoa thee "(translated as" friend of the site ", which would be related to a previous request for French protectorate) and also indicates " haka tika i ia i runga ta ite, I kainga iraro ina kai ta "(translated as" writing on the above, it is not written down here, "pointing to what is found on the surface of the ground).
Oral tradition indicates that King Rapanui Atamu Tekena took a piece of grass with earth , giving the grass a Chilean emissaries, keeping the earth (Hucke Paloma anthropologist interprets that this act was granted sovereignty to Chile, but reserved the right to their land) also before a Policarpo Toro offer a bag with coins, the king refused, saying "[...] take your money, that I, or any Kanaka, we have sold any land [.. .] ". Days later, Pedro Pablo Toro raise the Chilean flag on the island, the king said, " When you lift your own banner not stay on the island because we have sold anything, we know that the bishop placed the island under the protectorate of
