Qualla: Bahía Wulaia https://qualla.com/bahia-wulaia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bahía Wulaia https://qualla.com/bahia-wulaia Bahía Wulaia: Introduction https://qualla.com/bahia-wulaia/ Stone walls curve through the shallows here, low arcs of rock that look almost natural until you understand them. The Yámana built these fish traps - flooding at high tide so that fish swam in, stranding them when the water drew back. Some of that stonework still survives at Bahía Wulaia, on the western shore of Isla Navarino, shaped by hands that worked this bay for something close to ten thousand years. It is one of the oldest human places at the bottom of the world, and one of the saddest.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/q/p/w/bahia-wulaia-wp/4qpw-bah-a-wulaia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bahía Wulaia: The Living People https://qualla.com/bahia-wulaia/ The Yámana - also written Yaghan - called themselves a word that meant simply "living people." They were the southernmost humans on Earth, a canoe culture threading the cold channels from Tierra del Fuego toward Cape Horn. Men paddled into deep water to hunt sea lions while women...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/q/p/w/bahia-wulaia-wp/4qpw-bah-a-wulaia-the-living-people.mp3 0:06 2 full Bahía Wulaia: Jemmy Button Comes Home https://qualla.com/bahia-wulaia/ In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy of HMS Beagle took several Fuegians to England, among them a young man the English nicknamed Jemmy Button - reportedly bought, the story goes, for a mother-of-pearl button. He learned English, met polite society, and returned home in 1833 on the Be...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/q/p/w/bahia-wulaia-wp/4qpw-bah-a-wulaia-jemmy-button-comes-home.mp3 0:06 3 full Bahía Wulaia: The Massacre of 1859 https://qualla.com/bahia-wulaia/ In late October 1859, the mission schooner Allen Gardiner carried the Yámana back to Wulaia, arriving on 2 November after a brutal passage. Tensions had been building over accusations of theft. On Sunday, 6 November, the British party went ashore to hold a service in the settleme...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/q/p/w/bahia-wulaia-wp/4qpw-bah-a-wulaia-the-massacre-of-1859.mp3 0:06 4 full Bahía Wulaia: What the Mission Left https://qualla.com/bahia-wulaia/ The bloodshed did not end the missionary project; it redirected it. George Despard, who had run the Keppel station, returned to England in defeat. But his adopted son Thomas Bridges, then just seventeen, stayed. He learned the Yámana language with rare patience and devoted his li...

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