Yaghan

The Yaghan, also called Yamana, lived on the islands south of Tierra del Fuego along the Beagle Channel and around Cape Horn, the southernmost people in the world. They were nomads who moved between islands by canoe: the men hunted sea lions, the women dived for shellfish, and they also ate stranded whale meat, berries and mushrooms.

They lived in several local groups, such as the Wakimaala on both shores of the Beagle Channel. Their language was unrelated to those of the neighbouring Chono and Kawesqar canoe peoples, though they shared a similar way of life. Sailors in the early nineteenth century called them Fuegians, a name credited to James Weddell in 1822.