Resumen

MARTINIC B, MATEO. A hundred years from the closing of Dawson mission: Reflections on an admirable and fruitless effort. Magallania [online]. 2011, vol.39, n.2, pp. 97-103. ISSN 0718-2244.  doi: 10.4067/S0718-22442011000200007.

Being a century of the closing of San Rafael Salesian Mission at Dawson Island, some considera-tions and refections are done; about what was the humanitarian, civilization and Christianization project; its development, specially the relevance and effectiveness of the management system considering their objectives and, finally, some considerations about the consequences for the ethnic history, mainly for the selk’nam.

Palabras clave : Christian Mission; Salesians; fuegian Indians.