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  • In the area of the Beagle Channel and on the islands, Alacaluf, Yahgan, and Chono tribes were migrant fishermen.

    G. The Americas, 1000-1525 2001

  • This might be said with considerable truth of the Yahgan tongue, which is smooth and easy; but of the grunting, choking, spasmodic talk of the Onas it is untrue.

    The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

  • Traveling still farther southward, we meet the very tall Patagonian, still an Indian in essential respects, and finally, the Yahgan and Alacaluf of the Fuegian region, the most degenerate members of the race.

    The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

  • The Yahgan attitude toward death is the same as that of many primitive races.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

  • The following data relates to the running amuck or outburst, among the Yahgan and Ona tribes of the Fuegian Archipelago.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

  • One of the remaining historic corrals at Sapper Hill, near Stanley Although there is possible evidence of Yahgan (Patagonian native) landings, such as the warrah, the first accepted settlement was during the 18th century when East Falkland was settled by the

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  • Darwin sailed as gentleman companion to the prickly Captain Robert FitzRoy, whose first aim was to return three Alakaluf and Yahgan aboriginals

    unknown title 2009

  • Darwin sailed as gentleman companion to the prickly Captain Robert FitzRoy, whose first aim was to return three Alakaluf and Yahgan aboriginals

    unknown title 2009

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