A report on Tehuelche people
Indigenous people from Patagonia in South America, with existing members of the group currently residing in the southern Argentina-Chile borders.
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Salpul
0 linksSalpul (also called Salpu and Juan Salpú) was a northern, or guennekenk, Tehuelche leader in the late 19th century in Patagonia, Argentina.
Robert Lehmann-Nitsche
0 linksGerman anthropologist who spent thirty years in Argentina as director of the Anthropological Section of the La Plata Museum and professor at the University of Buenos Aires.
German anthropologist who spent thirty years in Argentina as director of the Anthropological Section of the La Plata Museum and professor at the University of Buenos Aires.
In 1905, Lehmann-Nitsche recorded extensively music from the Tehuelche people, but he went on in the following years recording several dozens of Argentinian folk singers specialized in Tango.
Ranquel
1 linksIndigenous tribe from the northern part of La Pampa Province, Argentina, in South America.
Indigenous tribe from the northern part of La Pampa Province, Argentina, in South America.
They were hunters, nomads and during a good part of the 19th century they had an alliance with the Tehuelche people, with whom they traveled east into the western part of today's Buenos Aires Province and southern end of Córdoba Province, and also to Mendoza, San Luis and Santa Fe.
Neuquén
0 linksCapital city of the Argentine province of Neuquén and of the Confluencia Department, located in the east of the province.
Capital city of the Argentine province of Neuquén and of the Confluencia Department, located in the east of the province.
Shortly after the Conquest of the Desert campaign conducted by the military over Patagonia, the Tehuelche and Pehuenche tribes that inhabited the province of Neuquén were either killed or pushed out of these lands.
Patagon
1 linksThe Patagones or Patagonian giants were a race of giant humans rumoured to be living in Patagonia and described in early European accounts.
The Patagones or Patagonian giants were a race of giant humans rumoured to be living in Patagonia and described in early European accounts.
The people encountered by Byron were in all likelihood the Tehuelches, indigenous to the region.
Pico Truncado
0 linksTown and municipality in Santa Cruz Province in southern Argentina.
Town and municipality in Santa Cruz Province in southern Argentina.
In the area there is evidence that 13,000 years ago, Mapuche and Tehuelche communities coexisted, living of hunting guanaco and choiques, fishing, and collecting mapu fruits, enduring strong winds and very cold winters.