Fuegians
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- Category:Indigenous peoples in Tierra del Fuego
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- Ethnonym
- History
- Origin
- Alternative origin speculations
- European contact
- Selkʼnam genocide
- Modern history
- Culture
- Material culture
- Gender
- Language
- Mythology
- Shamanism
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right|thumb|Picture of a Fuegian (possibly a Yahgan people|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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fuegians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.