 In 1971 her father, Luis Millán, railway worker and victim of the acculturation of the Mapuche people, moved with the whole family to Bahía Blanca for work reasons.The Millán family settled in a "villa miseria" inhabited mainly by indigenous people, mostly Mapuches.Moira suffered racism in Bahía Blanca, both from a society that rejected "the Indians", and from a school that glorified the military as heroes who had defeated the Mapuche nation in the so-called Conquest of the Desert and enslaved the survivors.