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=YAMANA BELIEFS =



The Yamana Indians which are now extinct lived at the southern tip of Argentina. there beliefs were passed down orally along with their stories. Nothing was ever put into writing until a priest by the name of Father Martin Gusinde talked and interviewed in a sense the last the Yamana Indians before they had all but died out. One of the stories of the Yamana people is about a great flood that they had come upon them offended the spirit Lexuwakipa. A great amount of ice covered the earth and when it all melted there was a huge and great flood. The Yamanas story of the great flood is also the same story that involves the men taking over and ruling over the women. Many of the Argentines still listen to the stories of their Indian ancestors. (Gofen 79)