A member of an indigenous or wild group, particularly in historical South American contexts.
Agent noun formed from 'aucan' with the suffix '-er', referring to a person who is aucan or belonging to aucan groups.
The suffix '-er' (one who is/does) appears in thousands of English words, but when it's attached to colonial-era descriptors like this, it reveals how people were categorized and labeled by outsiders rather than naming themselves.
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