Pehuenchen.adj.

1756 R. Rolt New & Accurate Hist. S.-Amer. ii. i. §v. 224 The Pehuenches, an Indian nation, inhabit the foot of the mountains, and live chiefly by hunting.

1774 T. Falkner Descr. Patagonia iv. 97 The Pehuenches border on the Picunches to the north... They are sometimes called by them Huilliches, or Southern People, but most generally Pehuenches.

1836 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 6 156 The Pehuenches are a people who have fixed habitations and live higher up the Catapuliche.

1855 Harper's Mag. Oct. 604/2 They were a wild-looking, noisy crew, but withal good-humored and kindly enough. They were the Pehuenches from the other side of the mountains.

1893 R. Wallaschek Primitive Music v. 169 The Manchi or medicine man of the Pehuenches (Indians in the Argentine provinces) used a sort of drum in his musical invocation, with which he hoped to expel the evil spirit.

1972 A. W. Crosby Columbian Exchange iii. 105 The Pehuenches and other pampean tribes soon learned horsemanship from the Araucanians.

1994 New Scientist 7 May 10/1 With winter fast approaching, the Pehuenches face extreme hardship and fear that their animals may starve.

2002 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 Mar. b12 Energy firm Endesa Chile has faced opposition from the Pehuenche because the project will flood land to which they claim ownership rights.

1843 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. 31 546 San Martin..assembles..all attainable tribes of the Pehuenche Indians, to a solemn Palaver, so they name it.

1855 Harper's Mag. June 610 (caption) Pehuenche Indians.

1883 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 5 343 In southern South America there were the Tehuelche, Pehuenche, and Huelche tribes of Patagonia.

1909 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 39 369 Loncoguru had fought for two hours with a famous Pehuenche chief.

1962 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 42 6 Using the Pehuenche homeland as a base, the Araucanians gradually took over the greater part of the Argentine central plains.

1997 Resurgence Mar.–Apr. 28/1 This is the ancestral territory of the Pehuenche people, a people who originated in the pampas areas of what is now Argentina, and who long ago migrated over the high Andes and put their roots down with the araucaria [sic], or pehuen.