Abipón
The Abipón or Abiponen were an indigenous people of South America who lived on the lower reaches of the Río Bermejo in the Argentine part of the Gran Chaco . Your language Callaga belongs to the Guaycurú group of the Mataco-Guaicurú languages . The Abipón were divided into three dialect groups: the Nakaigetergehè ("forest people"), the Riikahè ("people of the open country") and the Yaaukanigá ("water people"). Around 1750, their population was estimated at 5,000. In the second half of the 19th century, the people were considered extinct.
Way of life
Semi-nomadic groups of the Abipón lived mainly as hunters and gatherers and practiced agriculture to a certain extent . The introduction of the horse fundamentally changed the social way of life in the Chaco. Agriculture was practically abandoned, and semi-wild animals such as cattle , rhea , guanaco , deer and peccary were hunted on horseback. Abipón riders also attacked Spanish farms and even threatened cities such as Asunción and Corrientes .
Extinction
Around 1750, Jesuits settled the Abipón in missions that later became the cities of Reconquista and Resistencia . The Abipón's hunting areas were restricted in the 19th century by military pacification campaigns by whites. Many Indians were murdered, the rest was absorbed by the rest of the population.
See also
- Indigenous people in Argentina
- List of South American indigenous peoples
- Indigenous equestrian cultures of South America
literature
- Martin Dobrizhoffer : Historia de Abiponibus (German A. Kreil, history of the Abiponer ), 3 volumes. Vienna 1784.
- Carina P. Lucaioli: Abipones en las fronteras del Chaco. Una etnografía histórica sobre el siglo XVIII. Sociedad Argentina de Antropología, Buenos Aires 2011, ISBN 978-987-1280-19-3 . ( Digitized , academia.edu).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Abipon. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved November 26, 2017 .