The yagans (or yámanas ) are extinguished Amerindian people which formerly lived the southern part of the large island of Ground of Fire as well as the other islands southernmost, on the other side of the Canal Beagle, in territories which form today part of the Argentine and of the Chile. They was nomads which moved in the many channels of the area in canoés made bark of lenga, driving out the birds, the Old seaman and the nutria, with the skin of which they made their clothing. Their language is called the yámana. It does not remain today any more that two representing of these people, these two women are currently grandmother. They are the only surviving ones of the epidemic of Rubéole, disease imported by the colonists and missionaries, who decimated their families there is that more than one half century.
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