María Micaëla Guyunusa

Michella Jougousa Gununusa
Guyunusa with her baby daughter and Tacuavé. Part of the sculpture Los últimos charrúas by Edmundo Prati, Gervasio Furest and Enrique Lussich; Parque Prado, Montevideo.
Born	María Micaëla Guyunusa (1806-09-28)September 28, 1806 Paysandú, Uruguay
Died	July 22, 1834(1834-07-22) (aged 27) Lyon, Paris, France
Cause of death	Tuberculosis
Nationality	Uruguayan
Partner(s)	Laureano Tacuavé Martínez
Children	María Mó.Mi. Igualdad Libertad/ Caroliné Tacouavé (Sept. 20, 1833 - Aug. 28, 1834, France) Unknown child (Río Negro, Uruguay)
Parent(s)	María Rosa (mother) Victória Cambyaé (godmother) Manuel Medína (godfather)

Michella "Guyendita" Jougousa Gununusa (born María Micaëla Guyunusa: September 28, 1806 in Paysandú, Uruguay – July 22, 1834 in Paris, France) was a Minuán-Charrúa native from present day Uruguay of Güenoa descent.

María Micaëla Guyunusa's mother was the Charrúa, María Rosa, born in what is today Paysandú, a department of Uruguay. She was raised as a Christian with Spaniard customs. The name Micaëla was chosen by her mother in memory of Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, a native killed by the Spanish power in the eighteenth century. María Micaëla Guyunusa was born in an Indigenous village in the eastern coast of Uruguay (Paysandú), in a time of war. Micaëla was baptized by the Indigenous Victória Cambyaé and European expatriate Manuel Medína, at ten months of age by Silverio Antonio Martínez on July 26, 1807. Also, she was described as having her head "prominently elevated. She had less ability than Tacuavé with the steering wheel. She's more indolent, can sing and is accompanied by her violin. Her manner of speech is sweet.” Guyunusa was described to having "three blue stripes that extend vertically on the forehead from the hairline to the tip of her nose...", which were common for a female Minuán of her age, being that indigenous women were tattooed with the three stripes after first menstruating.

At five years of age, Guyunusa accompanied her people in the escort to the Exodus of the Western People. After 1820, her people were forced into exile. She grew up in the hills, in the Maroon resistance against the Portuguese, and as a teenager she and the charrúas supported the quest of leading the Thirty-Three Orientals. Her first son was born in the time that there was still hope for Ituzaingó and Sarandí to save the Uruguayan natives.