Darwin, Fitzroy and the Fate of the Native People of Tierra del Fuego

Gary Kochert will share how HMS Beagle, Jimmy Button, and a host of "believers" played a role in forever changing the lives of the individuals living in Tierra del Fuego, at the Southern tip of South America. In this lecture (which could aptly be called "Beagle, Button, and Believers"), Gary will share the geography and history of the area, highlighting the encounters between the Europeans and the Fuegians, who were living in the stone age when the Europeans first entered the area. The best-known accounts of such encounters were made by Commodore (later Post Captain) Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin, who accompanied FitzRoy on the second of two surveying trips to the area in HMS Beagle. Subsequent attempts to "civilize" and "Christianize" the Fuegians contributed to the ultimate extinction of the Fuegians and their unique culture.

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