Editing Smoke signal (section)

===Native Americans===

Lewis and Clark's journals cite several occasions when they adopted the Native American method of setting the plains on fire to communicate the presence of their party or their desire to meet with local tribes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/read/?_xmlsrc=1805-07-20.xml&_xslsrc=LCstyles.xsl |title=Lewis and Clark Journals, July 20, 1805}}</ref>

====Yámana====
[[Yamana people|Yámanas]] of [[South America]] used fire to send messages by smoke signals, for instance if a whale drifted ashore.<ref>Gusinde 1966:137–139, 186</ref> The large amount of meat required notification of many people so that it would not be wasted.<ref>Itsz 1979:109</ref> They might also have used smoke signals on other occasions—thus it is possible that Magellan saw such fires and was inspired to name the landscape [[Tierra del Fuego]] ("Land of Fire"); however, he may have seen the smoke or lights of natural phenomena.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pages.interlog.com/~erhard/uttermos.htm |title=The Patagonian Canoe |publisher=Pages.interlog.com |access-date=2013-02-19}}</ref><ref>Extracts from the following book. E. Lucas Bridges: ''Uttermost Part of the Earth. Indians of Tierra del Fuego.'' 1949, reprinted by Dover Publications, Inc (New York, 1988).</ref>