Patagonia / Tehuelche Territory

Overview

The Tehuelche people, also called the Aónikenk, are an Indigenous people from eastern Patagonia in South America. In the 18th and 19th centuries the Tehuelche were influenced by Mapuche people, and many adopted a horseriding lifestyle. Once a nomadic people, the lands of the Tehuelche were colonized in the 19th century by Argentina and Chile, gradually disrupting their traditional economies. The establishment of large sheep farming estates in Patagonia was particularly detrimental to the Tehuelche. Contact with outsiders also brought in infectious diseases ushering deadly epidemics among Tehuelche tribes. Most existing members of the group currently reside in cities and towns of Argentine Patagonia.

Wikipedia: Tehuelche people·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

A pastoralist or hunter-gatherer range whose extent shifted constantly with seasons and alliances.

• SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
• DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country (consistent with historical-basemaps:1492:Aónikenk)
• SNAPSHOT1700
• POLITY TYPEnomadic-range

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

• Taiping Rebellion1850–64
  World-changing · 30M dead
• Thirty Years' War1618–48
  World-changing · 8.0M dead
• Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• American Indian Wars1500–1800
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Qing Conquest of Ming China1618–83
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• French Wars of Religion1562–98
  World-changing · 4.0M dead