SANTIAGO – An indigenous language from South America’s extreme south has all but vanished after the death of its last living speaker and guardian of its ancestral culture. Cristina Calderon died on ...

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -The dusty main street through San Pedro de Atacama, a tiny town of adobe bricks and whitewashed plaster in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is a whirl of billowing linen shirts, ...

FILE PHOTO: The last woman from a tribe Yagan and speaker of this language, Cristina Calderon, 91, speaks during an interview with Reuters at her house in Ukika village By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CAPE HORN MAYOR, PATRICIO HERNANDEZ, SAYING: "Our grandmother Cristina was and will be a source of pride for the entire Navarino Island. She was an eternal promoter of the ...

Ilia Reyes Aymani, Kunza researcher and teacher in her home in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. (Cristóbal Olivares for NPR) SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -The dusty main street through San Pedro de Atacama ...

Ckunsa, an indigenous language in Chile, was declared dead 70 years ago. But groups in northern Chile are successfuly reviving the language and... SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -The dusty main street ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – An indigenous language from South America’s extreme south has all but vanished after the death of its last living speaker and guardian of its ancestral culture. Cristina Calderon ...