Aché people
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The Aché ( ) are an indigenous people of Paraguay. They are hunter-gatherers living in eastern Paraguay.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Aché
- Ethnic group.image
- Ache Hunting.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Aché man aiming into the canopy
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Paraguay
- Ethnic group.population
- 1,500
- Ethnic group.rels
- traditional tribal religion
- Ethnic group.langs
- Aché, Spanish
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Article
21 sectionsContents
- Name
- Language and genetics
- History
- Contact
- Aftermath
- The Kuetuvy Aché
- Finca # 470 as the Kuetuvy Indigenous Reserve
- Ancestral lands and range
- Food acquisition
- Hunting
- Gathering
- Cooperation during foraging
- Food sharing
- Social organization
- Social norms, ethnic signals, rituals and beliefs
- Life events
- Rituals and beliefs
- Demography
- See also
- Notes
- External links
The Aché ( ) are an indigenous people of Paraguay. They are hunter-gatherers living in eastern Paraguay.
From the earliest Jesuit accounts of the Aché in the 17th century until their peaceful outside contacts in the 20th century, the Aché were described as nomadic hunter-gatherers living in small bands and depending entirely on wild forest resources for subsistence. In the 20th century, four different ethnolinguistic populations of Aché were contacted and pacified. They are the Northern Aché, the Yvytyruzu Aché, the Ypety Aché, and the Ñacunday Aché. Each of these populations was an endogamous dialectal group, consisting of multiple residential bands, with no peaceful interaction between the groups.