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The Guarani are a group of culturally-related indigenous peoples of South America.They are distinguished from the related Tupi by their use of the Guarani language.The traditional range of the Guarani people is in what is now Paraguay between the Paraná River and lower Paraguay River, the Misiones Province of Argentina, southern Brazil once as far east as Rio de Janeiro, and parts of Uruguay ...
Extinct Native American tribes of North America [103] 207 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Samish: 2,000+ 1845 Edmund Clare Fitzhugh 208 Subarctic & Arctic District of Athabasca, Canada Etheneldeli 2,000 1875 Émile Petitot: 209 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Klallam: 2,000 1780 James Mooney: 210 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Chakchiuma: 2,000 1702
These missions were some of the most populous in South America with 26,362 inhabitants, according to a Jesuit census, and many more in the surrounding areas. [1] In 1754 the Jesuits surrendered control of the missions, but the Guaraní peoples, led by Sepé Tiaraju, refused to comply with the order to relocate. Efforts by the Spanish army in ...
The Tupi people, a subdivision of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families, were one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil before its colonization. Scholars believe that while they first settled in the Amazon rainforest, from about 2,900 years ago the Tupi started to migrate southward and gradually occupied the Atlantic coast of Southeast Brazil.
The Circum-Caribbean cultural region was characterized by anthropologist Julian Steward, who edited the Handbook of South American Indians. [1] It spans indigenous peoples in the Caribbean, Central American, and northern South America, the latter of which is listed here.
The same study also found there were great differences in the ancestry amongst Argentines as one traveled across the country. For example, the population in the North West provinces of Argentina (including the province of Salta) were on average of 66% indigenous, 33% European, and 1% of African ancestry. [31]
The lost paradise: the Jesuit Republic in South America. New York: Seabury Press. ISBN 978-0-8164-9295-4. Cunninghame Graham, R.B. (1924). A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607 to 1767 (etext). London: William Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-7126-1887-8. Ganson, Barbara (2003). The Guarani under Spanish Rule in the Rio de ...
French and Iroquois Wars (mid-17th century) — in eastern North America between Indian nations of the Iroquois Confederation, supported by the Dutch colonists of New Netherland, and the largely Algonquian-speaking tribes of the Great Lakes region, allied with French colonists; King Philip's War (1675–1676) — in present-day southern New England