Quilmes Indians
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- Work cat: Los kilmes, 2005?:pt. 1, opening titles (los Kilmes) pt. 1, end credits (comunidad de los Quilmes) pt. 1, container (los Kilmes; an aboriginal people that was defeated by the Spanish in 1666 after resisting conquest for 130 years; the Kilmes were then forcibly removed from their lands but still exist today)
- Wikipedia (English), viewed Feb. 11, 2014(Quilmes people; they were an indigenous tribe of the Diaguita group settled in the western subandean valleys of today's Tucumán province of Argentina; they resisted the Inca invasions of the 15th century and continued to resist the Spaniards for 130 years before being defeated in 1667; the last 2000 survivors were relocated to a reservation (reducción) 20 km. south of Buenos Aires; today there are only a few Quilmes left in Tucumán province)
- Giesso, M. Historical dictionary of ancient South America, 2008:p. 154 (Quilmes, large late period settlement located in the valley of Santa María, Tucumán; the Quilmes were defeated and sent into exile after several campaigns against the Spaniards [the name Quilmes is used in the entry for both the settlement and the people])
- Steward handbk. So. Am. Ind., 1946:v. 2, p. 651 (the Quilme fought for a long time against the Paccioca and Tolombon [mentioned in a chapter on the Diaguita])
- Loukotka, C. Classification of South American Indian languages, 1968:p. 275 (Quilme; a Diaguit dialect, now extinct; once spoken around the city of Quilmes, Catamarca)
The Quilmes people, also known as Kilmes, were an indigenous tribe of the Diaguita group settled in the western subandean valleys of today's Tucumán province, in northwestern Argentina. They fiercely resisted the Inca invasions of the 15th century, and continued to resist the Spaniards for 130 years, until being defeated in 1667. Spanish invaders relocated the last 2,000 survivors to a reservation (reducción) 20 km south of Buenos Aires. This 1,500 km journey was made by foot, causing hundreds of Quilmes to die in the process. By 1810, the reservation was abandoned as a result of its having become a ghost town. The survivors ultimately settled in what is now the city of Quilmes. The Quilmes People were one of the fiercest cultures which resisted the Incas but eventually fell to the Spaniards. Today, there are only a few Quilmes left in Tucumán Province.
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