Querandíes
Querandíes
Querandíes, name used by Spanish colonists to refer to the people who attacked and impeded the first settlement of Buenos Aires. Little is known about the origins of the Querandíes or their subsequent history. Some scholars suggest that the Querandíes disappeared perhaps because of a combination of disease, intertribal warfare, and migrations north up the Paraná River. The more common interpretation, however, is that the Querandíes were part of the larger Pampas linguistic group (Gunun a kena) who originally inhabited the region between the Río Carcarañá in the north and the Río Salado in the south and who later migrated south, away from the littoral, to escape disease and intertribal warfare.
See alsoIndigenous Peoples; Paraná River.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rodolfo M. Casamiquela, Un nuevo panorama etnológico del area pan-pampeana y patagónica adyacente (1969).
Additional Bibliography
Conlazo, Daniel, María Marta Lucero, and Teresa Authié. Los querandíes: Tras las huellas de su cultura. Buenos Aires: Galerna, 2006.
Kristine L. Jones