 With the advancement of European contact since the conquest, and with the establishment at different times of colonies, farms and missions, Chaco groups, including the Pilagá, began losing their territories.They became confined to smaller portions of lands, and as a consequence, they discontinued their hunter-gathering activities.Today, with sedentarization, Pilagá people combine traditional practices with land-cultivation and cattle-raising at a small scale, and the commerce of basketery, tapestry and wooden artifacts.