"Fuegian" redirects here. Not to be confused with Fujian.
Picture of a Fuegian (possibly a Yahgan) by ship's artist Conrad Martens during a visit of HMS Beagle.
Fuegians are the indigenous inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America. The name has been credited to Captain James Weddell, who supposedly created the term in 1822.[1]
The indigenous Fuegians belonged to several different tribes including the:
Selk'nam, also known as Ona or Onawo
Haush, also known as Manek'enk
Yahgan, also known as Yagán, Yaghan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica
Kawésqar, also known as Alacalufe, Kaweskar, Alacaluf, or Halakwulup
All of these tribes except the Selk'nam lived exclusively in coastal areas and have their own languages. The Yahgan and the Kawésqar traveled by birchbark canoes around the islands of the archipelago, while the coast dwelling Haush did not. The Selk'nam lived in the interior of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and were exclusively terrestrial hunter gatherers who hunted terrestrial game such as guanacos, foxes, tuco-tucos and upland nesting birds as well as littoral fish and shellfish.[2] The Fuegian peoples spoke several distinct languages: both the Kawésqar language and the Yahgan language are considered language isolates, while the Selk'nam and Haush spoke Chon languages like the Tehuelche on the mainland.
^"The Terra Del Fuegians at the Garden of Acclimation". Science. 2: 514–516. 29 Oct 1881. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
^Stuart, David E. (2014). Cordell, Linda S.; Beckerman, Stephen (eds.). The Versatility of Kinship: Essays Presented to Harry W. Basehart. pp. 269–284. ISBN 978-1-4832-6720-3. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
Exploring Expedition came in contact with the Fuegians in 1839. One member of the expedition called the Fuegians the "greatest mimics I ever saw." The Selk'nam...
to the other Fuegians Darwin met when the Beagle reached their native lands. Darwin described his first meeting with the native Fuegians in the islands...
The Fuegian dog, or Yahgan dog, or Patagonian dog (Spanish: perro fueguino, perro yagán, perro patagónico), is an extinct type of canid. In comparison...
and is difficult given the minimal number of native speakers remaining. Fuegians Yámana at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Qawasqar at Ethnologue (25th ed....
trade her for a stolen boat. He later decided to take her and three other Fuegians, "York Minster", "Boat Memory", and "Jemmy Button", to England where they...
other Fuegians, did not have any concept of God or Devil. In The Descent of Man, he suggests that Button never understood the plan to convert Fuegians to...
an able commander and meticulous surveyor. In one incident a group of Fuegians stole a ship's boat, and FitzRoy took their families on board as hostages...
The Fuegian snipe (Gallinago stricklandii) also known as the cordilleran snipe, is a small stocky wader. It breeds in south-central Chile and Argentina...
The Southern Fuegian Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino (FCAF)) or the Train of the End of the World (Spanish: El Tren del Fin del Mundo)...
first voyage with HMS Beagle in 1830, Robert FitzRoy picked up four native Fuegians, including "Jemmy Button" (Orundellico) and Yokcushlu, and brought them...
The Fuegian steamer duck (Tachyeres pteneres) or the Magellanic flightless steamer duck, is a flightless duck native to South America. It belongs to the...
Märchen der Feuerlandindianer [North wind—south wind. Myths and tales of Fuegians] (in German). Kassel: E. Röth. Ivanov, Vyacheslav; Toporov, Vladimir (1973)...
/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Although Fuegians (the indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego) were all hunter-gatherers...
Lyell's ideas of smooth continuity and of extinction of species. Three Fuegians on board, who had been seized during the first Beagle voyage then given...
rising sea levels covered the land bridge to Myanmar The Fuegians, who instead domesticated the Fuegian dog, an already extinct different canid species Individual...
statistical processing purposes is Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Although Fuegians from Patagonia may have visited the Falkland Islands in prehistoric times...
American snipe (G. paraguaiae) Solitary snipe (G. solitaria) Pin-tailed snipe (G. stenura) Fuegian snipe (G. stricklandii) Giant snipe (G. undulata)...
the British vessel HMS Beagle at the age of nine. Yokcushlu and other Fuegians were taken to England, where they were educated in English and Christianity...
Americas went extinct, due to being replaced by dogs of European origin. The Fuegian dog was a domesticated variation of the culpeo that was raised by several...
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