- 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...
- 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...
- The
Fuegian dog, or
Yahgan dog, or
Patagonian dog (Spanish:
perro fueguino,
perro yagán,
perro patagónico), is an
extinct type of canid. Its
ancestry is...
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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...
- 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"...
- south. The
earliest human settlement occurred approximately 8,000 BC. The
Yaghan were some of the
earliest known humans to
settle in
Tierra del Fuego.[dubious...
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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...
- or "Jemmy 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...
-
Michael Hogan, and was used by
Yaghan into the 19th century. In
November 1859 a
settlement known as
Wulaia was the site of a
Yaghan m****acre of all but one of...
- that
status besides Chile's
Punta Arenas. The word
Ushuaia comes from the
Yaghan language: ush and waia ("bay" or "cove") and
means "deep bay" or "bay to...
