13 Facts About Selk'nam people

Joubert Yanten Gomez, a Chilean mestizo of part Selk'nam people ancestry, has taught himself the language and is considered the only speaker; he uses the name Keyuk.

Traditionally, the Selk'nam were nomadic people who relied on hunting for survival.

Selk'nam people had little contact with ethnic Europeans until settlers arrived in the late 19th century.

Selk'nam people, who considered the sheep herds to be game rather than private property hunted the sheep.

Selk'nam people compiled a 4000 word vocabulary of the Selk'nam language, and 1400 phrases and sentences, which was published in 1915.

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Selk'nam people included a comparative list of 150 Ona-Tehuelche words, as he believed that there were connections to the Tehuelche people and language to the north.

German anthropologist Robert Lehmann-Nitsche published the first scholarly studies of the Selk'nam, although he was later criticized for having studied members of the Selk'nam people who had been abducted and were exhibited in circuses.

Selk'nam people was given a large land grant by the Argentine government, where he founded Estancia Harberton.

The forces of change were against them, and the indigenous Selk'nam people continued to have high fatality rates as their cultures were disrupted.

Selk'nam people studied the lexicon published in 1915 by Beauvoir, studied recordings of the language made by anthropologist Anne Chapman forty years earlier, in order to learn its sound.

Selk'nam people speaks several other indigenous languages and is learning Yagan.

Pictures of Selk'nam people taken by the missionaries are displayed at the Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum at Puerto Williams.

Selk'nam people was able to write more about traditional Selk'nam culture because it was still being lived.