Tierra del Fuego has certainly earned its reputation for being the end of the world. The archipelago, located at the southern tip of the Americas, is feared by sailors due to the 60-mile-per-hour winds that harden the steep, snow-capped peaks. In this last continental point before reaching Antarctica, the Selk’nam, Yaghan, Kawésqar and Haush ethnic groups have lived for 10,000 years. They’re nomadic peoples, whose history has been cursed by colonizers; first by the Spanish, but mainly by French and English naturalists. In the 19th century, the latter forcibly brought many Natives to be exhibited as “savages” in the Old Continent. Much of their perverse destiny — unpunished to this day — is now collected in a book-length essay titled Huesos sin descanso (or “Bones without Rest”), which was published this past October in Spain.
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