The Gününa küna, or sometimes, Puelche ( Mapudungun : pwelche , "people of the east") are indigenous peoples living east of the Andes Mountains in Chile and Southwest Argentina. They spoke the Puelche language . The name "Puelche" was not native, but was given to them by the Mapuche . They were annihilated by plagues and epidemics in the late 18th century, with survivors merging into other groups such as the Mapuche, Het , and Tehuelche .
13-522: Puelche or Puelches may refer to: Puelche people , an indigenous people of Argentina and Chile Puelche language , spoken by the Puelche people Puelche (wind) , a dry wind of Chile Puelches, La Pampa , a village in Argentina Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
26-792: The Mapuche . The name Ranquel is the Spanish name for their own name of Rankülche : rankül -cane-, che -man, people- in Mapudungun ; that is to say "cane-people" In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Ranquel controlled two chiefdoms in Argentina. Between 1775-1790 a group of Pehuenche advanced from the side of the Andes mountains east to the territory they called Mamül Mapu ( mamül : kindling, woods; mapu : land, territory) as it
39-608: The Puelches Algarroberos of the northern parts of Neuquén and the Andean area collected the fruit of the Araucaria , and those of Cuyo, foraged the fruit of the carob tree . During hunting and war they showed their skill in handling bolts and arrows. They made their houses or tents with branches and skins and settled near rivers and estuaries. The bands were presided over by an elder who acted as Lonko or head of
52-676: The coast of the Salado River , with the pretext of scorning Yanquetruz. Goico died during a fight with the Pincheiras Brothers , near Mendoza . Rank%C3%BClche The Ranquel or Rankülche are an indigenous tribe from the northern part of La Pampa Province , Argentina , in South America . With Puelche , Pehuenche and also Patagones from the Günün-a-Küna group origins, they were conquered by
65-750: The family. The Puelches algarroberos (Puelches of the Algarroba ), also called Puelches de Cuyo were a people related to the huarpean Pehuenches , living in Mendoza and the northern parts of Neuquén , to the south, their neighbors were the Pehuenches, and to the north by the Huarpes. During the Campaign of the Desert , in 1833, a chief part of a Puelche Algarrobero subgroup, Vicente Goico , aided
78-715: The food and heated the water in bark containers with hot stones. They made canoes with larch boards, cooked and caulked, easily disassembled to be carried on their shoulders through the Andean passes, which allowed them to interact with the Huilliches but above all with the Chonos of southern Chile, very close to them. When the Spanish arrived, the Pehuenches and Puelches were hunter-gatherers . The populations were integrated around small bands that thrived off of hunting guanacos , rheas and Andean deer; as well as gathering fruits;
91-637: The forces of José Félix Aldao . A Rankülche chief, Yanquetruz , had fought the Argentines since their combat in Acollaradas, there he won against the forces of Ruiz Huidobro while he attempted to surprise him at his settlement in Leubucó, southern Córdoba, where he made them retreat to Córdoba , Juan Manuel de Rosas proclaimed; "Yanquetruz and his son Pichún will be persecuted, and their heads will be delivered to me". Aldao, after hearing about
104-401: The results of the battle, decided to ambush the chief, with help of Puelche chief, who Aldao had adopted as his godson, Vicente Goico. After various military victories, Aldao had sent various chiefs fleeing south; one of them, Barbón, an elderly puelche chief subordinated to Yanquetruz; who was ordered to be killed by Aldao, then he was found, beheaded and spiked by Goico, his head being left in
117-640: The scientific names of two species of lizards, Liolaemus gununakuna and Liolaemus puelche , which are endemic to Argentina. Currently, there are efforts of revitalizing the language. The Puelches like the Pehuenches were hunters, fishermen and gatherers. They used bows, arrows and after the arrival of the Mapuche , spears. They were tall and stout and dressed in fur quillangos (cloaks) and turbans of rolled threads with nets that covered their heads and on which they attached feather ornaments. Their dwellings were built with branches and hides. They cooked
130-479: The title Puelche . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puelche&oldid=1026109472 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Puelche people The Puelche are commemorated in
143-508: The western part of today's Buenos Aires Province and southern end of Córdoba Province, and also to Mendoza , San Luis and Santa Fe . In 1833 Juan Manuel de Rosas led the Desert Campaign (1833–34) , in which he attempted to eliminate the Ranquel. Their leader at that time was Yanquetruz , and they put up a skilled defense, making good use of the desert terrain. Yanquetruz was succeeded around 1834 by Painé Guor. Their last chief
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#1732766058124156-800: Was Pincén, who was confined to the prison at Martín García island (1880). They allied themselves with the forces of Felipe Varela during the rebellion against the Paraguayan War and the Central Government in Buenos Aires. After Pincén's capture, the Ranquels were further reduced in population during the Conquest of the Desert , with their lands being occupied by the army. A reservation, the Colonia Emilio Mitre ,
169-521: Was covered by dense woods of Prosopis caldenia , Prosopis nigra , and Geoffroea decorticans . They settled along the Cuarto and Colorado rivers, from the south of today's Argentine provinces of San Luis , Córdoba , to the south of La Pampa . They were hunters, nomads and during a good part of the 19th century they had an alliance with the Tehuelche people , with whom they traveled east into
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