Yahgan

[yah-guhn]

noun

plural

Yahgans ,

plural

Yahgan .

1. a member of an Indian people of the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego and adjacent islands.

2. the language of the Yahgan.

Example Sentences

But the Yahgan did not delight in open warfare or bloodshed.

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The Yahgan could work himself into a foaming passion—he literally frothed at the mouth in his rage—but he preferred to make even murder a fine art.

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It is a curious fact, illustrative of Yahgan society, that a father sometimes sold his girls to men whom he did not really like.

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The Yahgan would not tolerate the rude lasciviousness of the white seamen, and until taught that it was wicked, stood up, man fashion, and fought in defence of his wives and daughters.

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Crouching over his tiny fire by night, the Yahgan heard weird voices among the waving trees on the mountain side above him, he felt the breath that scattered the embers of his hearth, he saw the deluge that drowned out even his brightest flames, and all these were manifestations of a power that was ill-defined in his mind, but nevertheless real.

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