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The 'Puelche' are an extinct tribe of South American Indians. They inhabited the Argentine Pampas region near the Río Negro and Río Colorado. They were a nomadic people, and bred horses and cattle. They had their own language, and socially they resembled their Patagonian neighbours, especially the Tehuelche. Anthropologist Hermann Baumann documented male-to-female transsexual priestesses among the Puelche.^[1]
They hunted Guanaco and Rhea, and were proficient horsemen; fighting with lances and bolas.
They were absorbed by the Araucanians during the 1700s.

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1. Feinberg, Leslie: Transgender Warriors, page 40. Beacon Press, 1996.