Cristina Calderón
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 |
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.