At the end of the Heian period the area came under the control of the military leader Taira no Tadatsune, and his descendents continued their control of the area in the Kamakura period.
Part of the Chonan language family of Patagonia, Selk'nam is now extinct, due both to the late 19th-century Selknam Genocide by European immigrants, high fatalities due to disease, and disruption of traditional society.
Their language, believed to be part of the Chonan family, is considered extinct as the last speakers died in the 1980s.
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