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The Aónikenk people, also referred to by the exonym Tehuelche, are an indigenous people from Patagonia in South America, with existing members of the group currently residing in Argentina.
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27,813 (2010 census)[1] | |
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Argentina | |
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Animism (originally) | |
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Haush, Selknam, Teushen |
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The name “Tehuelche complex” has been used by researchers in a broad sense to group together indigenous peoples from Patagonia and the Pampas. Several specialists, missionaries and travelers have proposed grouping them together on account of the similarities in their cultural traits, geographic vicinity and languages, even though the languages they spoke amongst themselves were not related to each other and their geographic distributions were extensive[2]