Shichaam

The Shichaam Lhavos are a downriver group of the Nivaclé people of the Gran Chaco. Together with the upriver Chishamnee they are known as people of the Pilcomayo River. The Nivaclé speak a Mataguayan language and traditionally inhabited the riverbanks and surrounding plains. Hunting, fishing, gathering and small-scale cultivation supported communities in a landscape of woodland and wetlands that changed with the river’s floods.