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Tehuelche

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Te·huel·che  (t-wlch, t-wlch)
n. pl. Tehuelche or Te·huel·ches
1. A member of a South American Indian people formerly inhabiting most of Patagonia, with a small present-day population in southern Argentina.
2. The language of the Tehuelche.
Te·huelche·an (-ch-n) adj.
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Included in the exhibition is a reference to the Tehuelche natives, "the original owners of Patagonia, before the age of the wire fences".
IS IT TIME TO OFFER HELP TO THE PATAGONIANS WHO HELPED US? VIEWPOINTS by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
After the trek I will spend a month carrying out research into the relationship between the indigenous Tehuelche Indians and the early Welsh Patagonian settlers in the C19th.
Letter: My trek over the high Andes by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
That evening, we were staying in the village of El Chaltén, which takes its name from a nearby mountain; the word is native Tehuelche for 'smoking mountain' in reference to the clouds of snow that whirl around its summit, and which the Indians may have thought were volcanic plumes.
On the road to the end of the world by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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