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Nothing makes you feel as old as when you see someone have nostalgia about something you still think of as new.
There’s so many talented people we will never hear of because of their lack of confidence
The Yaghan are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southern Cone, the geographic and cultural region composed of the southernmost areas of South America. For over 10,000 years they have inhabited the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, and later extended their presence to Cape Horn.
Traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers, the Yaghan built canoes which they used to travel between islands in search for food. The men of the groups hunted sea lions, while women routinely dove for shellfish in near-freezing waters, just north of the Antarctic.
Although they lived in a subpolar oceanic climate, the Yaghan notoriously went naked in their day to day living. Even in winter, they were able to achieve this feat by covering themselves in seal or sea-lion grease, huddling together around fires when possible (the island name, translated into Land of Fire, was given by early European explorers who observed these fires), and by their mysterious but naturally occurring increased metabolic rate, which allowed them to have a higher average body temperature than most humans. They often were observed to sleep in the open, completely unsheltered and unclothed, while Europeans shivered under blankets.
Post-European contact, some Yaghan began to or were forced to wear European clothing (first picture).
European invasion decimated populations of the Yaghan through killings and infectious disease. Today, a small but present amount of people in the Southern Cone identify as Yaghan.
