Are the Charrua Extinct?
Added 2020-05-03 18:01:00 +0000 UTCI'm very happy with how this video turned out. I think it is an important question, regardless of where you're from.
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Evan and Kata
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Interesting.
Andrew MacDougall
2020-05-04 16:19:03 +0000 UTCThat was good. As to the source of Guarani DNA in the population which came from Paraguay, one source might be the captured soldiers in the War of the Triple Alliance. Paraguayans have a high proportion of native DNA. Here is a quote from Professor Thomas Whigam (an email exchange) which he was gracious enough to allow me to use elsewhere so I guess he won't mind here: "The best way to understand the Uruguayan part of the war is that for the Orientales, it was a Colorado war, and the troops that went north to fight in Paraguay proper were either Colorados or war-prisoners that the latter had taken early in the conflict and were now being used against their own Paraguayan countrymen. This is a story that neither the Uruguayans nor the Paraguayans like to admit, so it tends to get buried, but insofar as the Uruguayan units in the Allied armies were concerned there was never much patriotism involved and by the end of 1869, there were almost no Uruguayans left in the Batallon Florida, for instance. And since having served against Paraguay meant that those Paraguayans who had done so would have no future in the country of their birth, most went to Montevideo, took out Oriental citizenship, and then served as shock-troops in the Rebelion de las Lanzas in the 1870s. They intermarried with local girls and pretty much get lost in history. You can put together a bit of their story by looking at the documents of the veterans' association (the Centro de Guerreros del Paraguay), which are now to be found in National Historical Archive in the Casa de Lavalleja in Montevideo. "
xnfec
2020-05-04 07:25:25 +0000 UTCThis has long been my argument. There is only one race: Human.
Bill Grigg
2020-05-03 19:27:35 +0000 UTC
