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    people known from colonial-era records either are ancient Kawésqar or came to merge with the Kawésqar. The English and other Europeans initially adopted the...
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    Kawésqar (Qawasqar), also known as Alacaluf, is a critically endangered Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people. Originally...
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    Kawésqar National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional Kawésqar), formerly Alacalufes National Reserve, is the second largest national park in Chile and one...
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    Manek'enk Yahgan, also known as Yagán, Yaghan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica Kawésqar, also known as Alacalufe, Kaweskar, Alacaluf, or Halakwulup All of these...
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    mushrooms. The Yahgan share some similarities with the more northern Chono and Kawésqar (Alacaluf) tribes. These groups share behavioral traits; a traditional...
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    Yokcushlu (category Kawésqar people)
    Yokcushlu (c. 1821 – c. 1883) was a Kawésqar woman from the western Tierra del Fuego. In 1830, at the age of nine, she was taken hostage by the crew of...
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    ethnic groups around the strait are the Kawésqar, the Tehuelche, the Selk'nam and Yaghan people. The Kawésqar lived on the western part of the strait's...
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    forms part of Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. It is home to the last Kawésqar people, living in the village of Puerto Edén, the only inhabited place...
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  • Fuego by Native Americans. Adelaar lists the Fuegian languages as the Kawésqar language, the Ona language and the Yaghan language in addition to Chono...
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     Argentina Province Tierra del Fuego Province Demographics Population >135,000 (2010) Ethnic groups Argentines, Chileans, Selk'nams, Kawésqar, Yaghans...
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    compared to canoe-farers further south. Alberto Achacaz Walakial, himself a Kawésqar born around 1929, said that the Chono people were taller and of darker...
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    inhabitants of the fjords and channels of Aysén Region are the Chono and Kawésqar. These two groups shared a life style as canoe-faring hunther-gatherers...
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    (Yahgan) dialects. Fuegians Mamihlapinatapai Selk'nam Alacaluf people (Kawésqar) Kawésqar language Haush language Fuegian languages Fallece a los 93 años Cristina...
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  • Quechua, Atacameño, Qulla (Kolla), Diaguita, Yahgan (Yámana), Rapa Nui and Kawésqar (Alacalufe) people in other parts of the country, as well as many other...
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    opening of Última Esperanza Sound and was originally inhabited by the Kawésqar or Alacaluf people and the Aoniken or Tehuelche people. The first Europeans...
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  • British vessel HMS Beagle Tierra del Fuego 9 Released Yokcushlu was a Kawésqar woman from the western Tierra del Fuego who was taken hostage by the crew...
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    Pernambuco, Ceará) † Katembrí † Katukinan (3) (also known as Catuquinan) Kawésqar (Chile) (Kaweskar, Alacaluf, Qawasqar, Halawalip, Aksaná, Hekaine) Kwaza...
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    Petrificados de Jaramillo National Park El Rincón Wilderness Nature Reserve Kawésqar National Park La Ascensión Wilderness Nature Reserve Laguna Blanca National...
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    belonging to four tribes: Yámana, Alakaluf (now known by their autonym of Kawésqar), Selk'nam (Ona) and Manek'enk (Haush). European attempts at settling the...
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    mid-central vowel (schwa). The letter æ is used in the official orthography of Kawésqar spoken in Chile and also in that of the Fuegian language Yaghan. The symbol...
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    Island, and a few reside in continental cities like Valparaíso or Santiago. Kawésqar: Spoken by a dozen people in Puerto Edén. Cacán: The language was spoken...
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    Margarita Vargas López (category Kawésqar people)
    October 1969) is a Chilean politician of Kawésqar origin. In 2021, she was elected to serve as the so-called Kawésqar nation's representative in the Constitutional...
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    Patagonian fjords and channels being thus detrimental to the sea-faring Kawésqar. The Ottoman LIA occurred from the early 14th century until the mid-19th...
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  • Caucahue (category Kawésqar)
    the Caucahue disappeared from the historical record by merging into the Kawésqar to the south and the people of Chiloé to the north. According to historian...
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    Charles W. Furlong recorded their endonym as "Shilk'e'num" and "Ch'on". Kawésqar Kawésqar language "Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010: Resultados...
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  • (British Columbia, Yukon Territory) Native American religion Kawesqar Alacalufan → Kawesqar Chile (Chilean Patagonia, Wellington Island) Christianity →...
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  • Indigenous peoples of California Ingalik Innu Inuit Iñupiat Karankawa Kawésqar Koyukon Lakota Makah Maritime Archaic Menominee Navajo (until the sixteenth...
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  • Margarita Vargas (born 1960), musical artist Margarita Vargas López, Chilean Kawésqar politician Margarita Vasileva, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast Margarita Villaescusa...
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    people, 19 Lican Antai, 84 Quechua people, 27 Colla, 136 Diaguita, 114 Kawésqar, 38 Yahgan, 175 other and 1,256 declaring indigenous status but not identifying...
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  • pueblosoriginarios.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-27. "Lenguas Yámana y Kawésqar. Vocabulario comparativo". pueblosoriginarios.com (in Spanish). Retrieved...
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