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other Guaycuruans. The Payaguá
menaced Spanish travel on the
Paraguay river for 200 years. The
bands and
family groups making up the
Guaycuruans were matrilocal...
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often collectively called the
Guaycuru peoples. For the most part, the
Guaycuruans lived in the Gran
Chaco and were
nomadic and warlike,
until finally subdued...
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female deaths,
suggesting infanticide. The Abipones, a
small tribe of
Guaycuruan stock, of
about 5,000 by the end of the 18th
century in Paraguay, practiced...
- River, was the home of the Guaycurú peoples. The most
important of the
Guaycurúans in
Paraguay were the Payaguá, a
riverine people ranging for 1,600 km...
- an
exception to the
horse culture, in full
flower by 1650, of
other Guaycuruans. The
Payagua plied the
river in canoes,
fished and
gathered edible plants...
- Guaraní | | |___ Chiripá | | |___ Kaiwá [+] | | |___ Tapieté | |____
Guaycuruan family | | |___ Qom
group | | |___ Mocoví | | |___ Pilagá | | |___ Toba...
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peoples were
nearly the same in the 16th century.) The Mbayá
spoke a
Guaycuruan language. They were "formidable"
fighters and "kept the
Europeans – settlers...
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commonly called Chiriguanos,
while the Guaná were
subjects of the Mbayá, a
Guaycuruan speaking people. The Chané,
together with
other Arawak groups, are believed...
- and
Messiah in
British India during the late
nineteenth century. The
Guaycuruan-speaking Toba
attempted to
regain control of the Gran
Chaco in Argentina...
- unsuccessful. The
Jesuits were
stopped by the
hostile Payaguá and Mbayá (
Guaycuruan-speaking tribes), and by the
impenetrable swamps of Jarayes. In 1715,...
