Cristina Calderón
Cristina Calderón Harban (24 May 1928 – 16 February 2022) was a Chilean ethnographer, craftswoman, writer and cultural activist who was the last living full-blooded Yahgan person after the death of her 84-year-old sister Úrsula in 2005. By 2004, Calderón (often referred to as simply "Abuela", Spanish for "grandmother") and her sister-in-law Emelinda Acuña were the only two remaining native speakers of the Yahgan language, an indigenous language in Tierra del Fuego.
Illustrious Daughter of the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Cristina Calderón | |
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Calderón in 2013 | |
| Born | 24 May 1928 Robalo, Puerto Williams, Chile |
| Died | 16 February 2022 (aged 93) Punta Arenas, Chile |
| Occupation(s) | Ethnographer, craftswoman, writer, cultural activist |
| Known for | Last known native speaker of the Yahgan language and last living full-blooded Yahgan person |
| Spouses | Felipe Garay
(m. 1943; died 1948)Lucho Zárraga (died 1962)Teodosio González
(m. 1964; died 2009) |
| Children | 10, including Lidia González |
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