Cristina Calderón

Last full blood yagán, last known speaker of the yaghan language.

Born May 24th, 1928 in Puerto Williams.

Died February 16th, 2022 at 93 years old in Hospital Clínico de Magallanes (COVID-19). [ref]

Occupations
artisan, cultural activist, ethnographer, lexicographer, singer, writer

No art is possible without a dance with death. Kurt Vonnegut