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    The Yahgan (also called Yagán, Yaghan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica) are a group of indigenous peoples in the Southern Cone of South America. Their traditional...
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  • Look up Yaghan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yaghan, Yagán or Yahgan may refer to: Yahgan people, an ethnic group of Argentina and Chile Yahgan language...
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    around the strait are the Kawésqar, the Tehuelche, the Selk'nam and Yaghan people. The Kawésqar lived on the western part of the strait's northern coast...
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    and nearly complete extinction of the Yaghan people. The Yaghan tribe was reduced in number from about 3,000 people in 1880 to less than 100 by the 1990s...
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    "Man(e)kenk": The Haush, an intermixed group of Onas with non-Patagonian Yaghan people. They lived in the Mitre Peninsula on the Eastern part of the island...
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    Bahía Wulaia (category Yaghan)
    there of the Yaghan peoples about 10,000 years ago.[dubious – discuss] Known as the Wulaia Bay Dome Middens, the site revealed that the people created fish...
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    as well as the remains of a wooden canoe provide evidence that the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego may have made the journey to the islands. It is...
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    Charles Darwin (category People educated at Shrewsbury School)
    peoples. At his arrival in Tierra del Fuego he made a colourful description of "Fuegian savages". This view changed as he came to know Yaghan people more...
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    Lidia González (category Chilean people of Yaghan descent)
    Lidia Cristina González Calderón (born 1967) is a Yaghan (or Yámana) politician in Chile. González is a former city council member in Cabo de Hornos and...
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    described as "the largest fish trap in the world". The prehistoric Yaghan people who inhabited the Tierra Del Fuego area constructed stonework in shallow...
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    Island (south of the province) has yielded evidence of settlement by the Yaghan people more than 10,000 years ago. A gold rush occurred in the late 19th and...
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    more than 10,000 years ago, as people migrated from the mainland, perhaps under pressure from competitors. The Yaghan people were some of the earliest known...
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    Fuego and Gable Island all islands mentioned here belong to Chile. The Yaghan peoples settled the islands along the Murray Channel approximately 10,000 years...
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  • of Colla people in Chile Four horizontal stripes yellow, white, black and red. 2018–present Flag of Diaguita people - Flag of Yaghan people 2020–present...
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    or Tehuelches people, this language disappeared in Chile during the 20th century and is dwindling in Argentina. Extinct in 2019. Yaghan: In Puerto Williams...
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  • Villa Ukika (category Yaghan)
    of the Yaghan people live. Villa Ukika was established in 1967 after the naval authorities of Puerto Williams decided to transfer the Yaghans who inhabited...
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  • Anglican missionary settlement set up in the mid-19th century served some Yaghan people brought there from Tierra del Fuego. They taught them farming and English...
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    Mamihlapinatapai (category Yaghan words and phrases)
    The word mamihlapinatapai is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word"...
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    Jemmy Button (category Yaghan)
    Button" or "Jimmy Button" (c. 1815–1864), was a member of the Yaghan (or Yámana) people from islands around Tierra del Fuego in modern Chile and Argentina...
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    Expedition leader Organizing country Latitude achieved Location Map key Date Yaghan people ----- 55°58' Cape Horn (speculative) B From prehistoric times. Ferdinand...
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    and Yaghan populations were greatly reduced by unequal conflict and persecution by settlers, by infectious diseases to which the indigenous people had...
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    Fuegian dog (redirect from Yaghan (dog))
    Manek'enk peoples, was a domesticated breed descended from the culpeo, whereas the Fuegian dog, used by the Chonos, Kawesqar, and Yahgan peoples, was descended...
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  • Chilean governments, systematically exterminated the Selk'nam people, Yaghan, and Haush peoples. Their decimation is known today as the Selk'nam genocide...
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  • farming people who lived in the Ohio River Valley) Tehuelche Thule people Tlingit Utes Yaghan Yahi Yanomami Yupik Adivasi Aeta Ainu Altai Andamanese Great Andamanese...
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  • surrounding these fjords were home of the Kawésqar (Alacalufe) and Yaghan people for thousands of years. Sadly, their names and tales were erased by...
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    Yahgan or Yagán (also spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan, and also known as Yámana, Háusi Kúta, or Yágankuta), is an extinct language that is one of the indigenous...
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    Cristina Calderón (category Chilean people of Yaghan descent)
    Cristina, Lone Surviving Voice Of Yaghan Language". Worldcrunch. Retrieved 17 February 2022. "Chile's last Yaghan speaker dies aged 93". France 24. AFP...
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    Thomas Bridges (missionary) (category People from Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina)
    children were born. He continued to work with the Selk'nam (Ona) and Yaghan peoples for nearly 20 more years. On Bridges' retirement from missionary service...
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  • dating has indicated a near absence of radiogenic argon. Myths of the Yaghan people of a "world fire" may be a reference to volcanism at Fueguino, but they...
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    Margarita Vargas López (category Kawésqar people)
    Puerto Natales. She additionally worked to secure protections for the Yaghan people, an indigenous nation native to Navarino Island. In the 2021 Chilean...
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