Tehuelche

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Te·huel·che

(tə-wĕl′chē, tā-wĕl′chā)

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·huel′che·an (-chē-ən) adj.

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(particularly the Tehuelche) used them to catch 200-pound guanaco

50 Years of bolers

99% of those that define themselves as Mapuche are of Tehuelche origin." In the same interview, Casamiquela also argued that the Tehuelche were the original inhabitants of the pampas and mourned the loss of the Tehuelche language and a distinctive Tehuelche culture, which he saw as casualties of the araucanizacion process.

MANIFEST DESTINY, THE FRONTIER, AND "EL INDIO" IN ARGENTINA'S CONQUISTA DEL DESIERTO

Long before the border was delimited, numerous pueblos originarios, or indigenous communities, including the Tehuelche and Chonos, inhabited Patagonia, living a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle unrestricted by the territorial divisions that were later imposed.

Tales from the Border: Patagonia has long been a site of struggle between the state authorities of Argentina and Chile, and the people who have always inhabited these austral lands, many of whom fail to see why lines on a map should restrict more loosely defined cultural geographies

Sin embargo, en el siglo XX una informante tehuelche, Patti Chapala, conto que las boleadoras y los arcos y flechas habian sido usados de manera simultanea para la caza hasta 1940 (Aguerre 2000, 63).

A Question of Absence or Abandonment? Projectile Points in Post-Contact Sites in Southern Patagonia (16th to 20th Centuries)/Ausencias o abandonos? Las puntas de proyectil en sitios postcontacto de Patagonia meridional (siglos XVI al XX)/Ausencias ou abandonos? As pontas liticas em locais pos-contato da Patagonia meridional (seculos XVI a XX)

Intraspecific variation in the reproductive cycle of the Tehuelche scallop Aequippecten tehuelchus (Pelecypoda, Pectinidae), in San Matias Gulf, Patagonia, Argentina.

REPRODUCTIVE CONDITION AND SPAWNING INDUCTION IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN SCALLOP PECTEN SULCICOSTA TUS

Intermediary Zone 4-5: Banar, Moi, Sedang; Khmu; Tigre, Tigrigna; Mbum, Mundang; Tuareg; Central Solomons; Kirati (Rai, Limbu, Newar); Kafirs; Old Testament; Somali; Konkani; Uilta; Rawang, Anong, Drung; Lavrung, Jiarong, Qiang; Namuzi, Pumi; Meo, Dao, Man (Vietnam, Laos); Tehuelche; Selknam; Yamana;

A LARGE-SCALE STUDY OF WORLD MYTHS

Fe'i gelwid yn El Baqueano - Y Tywysydd - am ei allu i ddilyn olion ddysgodd gan y Tehuelche wrth dyfu fyny ar y paith.