AHC WI Pre Columbian people in Falklands/ Malvinas

Who said that there was nobody? is there prooves clearly of no one? I means... Paleoamerindians landed all the way south to patagonia...
 
If so what happens when Europeans locate them?

a) Smallpox kills most of them.
b) European attitudes varies according to what anthropization did to Falkland environment. If those people stripped the little soil and vegetation there bare, Easter Island like, and depleted seabird stocks, well, they'll likely leave the place alone except for the occasional trading-whaling shipment.
If they "improved" the area somehow, it'll be something like Tasmania 2.O probably.
 
The native Falklander's chances of long-term survival are not very good. The Falklands wouldn't support a very large population. Perhaps one island in the Falklands could be turned into a reservation, and the survivors of disease/massacre could be exiled there by the colonial government. It's still their homeland so they have a good chance of surviving in that environment, and being on an island makes controlling who lands there easy, so if inclined the government in the Falklands could prevent whalers, slavers, and other undesirables from attacking the native Falklanders.

The Falklands aren't really very good land, more useful for their strategic location near the Tierra del Fuego than anything else, so this does mean that there will not be too many land-hungry settlers seeking to break their home government's law to take Indian lands. A reservation system could preserve the Falklanders, but it's their only hope.
 
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