‘We hugged and we cried’ A lost tribe reclaims its identity
One of José Vásquez Chogue’s enduring childhood memories is of his grandfather on the doorstep of his home in Santiago staring at the night sky. “He would always face south,” Vásquez recalled. “He would point out the Southern Cross and show me the stars which represent our ancestors.”
The older man had grown up on a frozen and remote island in Patagonia and was a member of the Selk’nam tribe. But Chilean
