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In 2005, the Indigenous population living in Argentina (known as pueblos originarios) numbered about 600,329 (1.6% of the total population); this figure includes 457,363 people who self-identified as belonging to an Indigenous ethnic group and 142,966 who identified themselves as first-generation descendants of an Indigenous people. [272]
Oasisamerica cultural areas, circa 1350. Oasisamerica is a cultural region of Indigenous peoples in North America.Their precontact cultures were predominantly agrarian, [1] in contrast with neighboring tribes to the south in Aridoamerica. [2]
The R.P. Gustavo Le Paige Archeological Museum, located in San Pedro de Atacama, holds much of the historical and archeological remains of the Atacameño people. It was founded by the Belgian Jesuit priest Gustavo Le Paige, who moved to San Pedro in 1955 and became fascinated with Atacameño culture.
House lots and sowing lands were to be distributed among pueblo settlers." [1] Among the leadership of a pueblo was an alcalde (preceded in the history of Spanish administration by the title corregidor). Spanish colonial pueblos in North America included: [2] Villa of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, now Santa Cruz, New Mexico [3]
In South America, Indigenous peoples comprise the Pre-Columbian peoples and their descendants, as contrasted with people of European ancestry and those of African descent. In Spanish, indigenous peoples are referred to as pueblos indígenas (lit. ' indigenous peoples '), or pueblos nativos (lit. ' native peoples '). The term aborigen (lit.
Trinidad, California (the area was named la Santísima Trinidad for Trinity Sunday, 11 June, date in which the Spanish explorers Bruno de Heceta and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra took possession of place) Trinidad, Colorado ("Trinity", named after the Holy Trinity) Trinidad, Texas (trinity) Tucson, Arizona (derived from the Spanish word ...
An Ethnographic study of Patagonians), the military doctor Federico A. Escalada classified the Tehuelche people from historic periods, on the basis of the Estudio de la realidad humana y de la bibliografía (Study of Human Reality and Bibliography), into five simple categories, each with their own language derived from a mother language called ...
La huella del fuego: Historia de los bosques nativos. Poblamiento y cambios en el paisaje del sur de Chile. Pehuén Editores. ISBN 956-16-0409-4. Urbina Carrasco, María Ximena (2009). La Frontera "de arriba" en Chile Colonial (in Spanish). Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso. ISBN 978-956-17-0433-6.