The Bolivian Toba (Guaicuruan) Expansion in Northern Gran Chaco, 1550-1850.

The Bolivian Tobas in northern Gran Chaco were mobile huntergatherers organized in bands. They called themselves qomleʔk, and spoke a distinctive variation of Guaicuruan language. For three hundred years, coalitions of Toba braves successfully rejected Jesuit missionaries, alternatively fought and a...

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Published in:	Ethnohistory Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 275 - 301
Main Author:	Mendoza, Marcela
Format:	Article
Published:	Duke University Press Apr2019
Subjects:	Gran Chaco Bolivia Plains Toba (South American people) Guaycuruan languages Jesuit missions
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