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    The Selk'nam, also known as the Onawo or Ona people, are an indigenous people in the Patagonian region of southern Argentina and Chile, including the...
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    The Selk'nam genocide was the systematic extermination of the Selk'nam people, one of the four indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego archipelago, in...
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  • Selk'nam mythology is the body of myths of the Selk'nam and Haush peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Selk'nam mythology is known today primarily from the works...
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  • Ona, also known as Selk'nam (Shelknam), is a language spoken by the Selk'nam people in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in southernmost South America. Part...
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    José Menéndez (category People from Avilés)
    business partners in the Braun family in the genocide of the Indigenous Selk'nam people of Patagonia. Menéndez was born in Santo Domingo de Miranda (Avilés)...
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    Haush (redirect from Haush people)
    Indigenous people who lived on the Mitre Peninsula of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. They were related culturally and linguistically to the Selk'nam (also...
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    Fuegians (redirect from Fuegian people)
    Fuegian peoples spoke several distinct languages: both the Kawésqar language and the Yahgan language are considered language isolates, while the Selk'nam and...
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  • The Settlers (2023 film) (category Selk'nam people)
    violent hunt for Onas, the natives of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. The Selk'nam genocide lies at the core of the film. Camilo Arancibia as Segundo Benjamin...
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    Lola Kiepja (category People of Selk'nam descent)
    1966) was a Selk'nam shaman nationalized as an Argentine, known as "the last Ona" or "the last Selk'nam", due to being the last person of Selk'nam ethnicity...
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    Genocide of the Selk'nam People of Tierra del Fuego". In Adhikari, Mohamed (ed.). Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler...
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    Patagon (category Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
    also refer to the Selk'nam people.[citation needed] However, like that of the Tehuelche language, the language of the Selk'nam people does not match the...
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    Julius Popper (category Argentine people of Romanian descent)
    was one of the main perpetrators of the genocide against the native Selk'nam people[citation needed] in the islands, and the circumstances surrounding...
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  • systematically exterminated the Selk'nam people, Yaghan, and Haush peoples. Their decimation is known today as the Selk'nam genocide. Argentina also expanded...
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  • (also known as a Selkbag or selk'bag), supposedly relating to the Selk'nam people, indigenous to Tierra del Fuego and other parts of Patagonia Selk,...
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    Selk'nam and Haush), the language of the Gününa küne indigenous group and the language of the Querandí people. The language of the Aonekkenk people appears...
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    not threatened with extinction. The culpeo was domesticated by the Selk'nam people of Tierra del Fuego, producing the Fuegian dog which became extinct...
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    Sara Braun (category People from Talsi)
    their business partners in the Menéndez family in the genocide of the Selk'nam people. Her mansion is preserved as a museum in Punta Arenas, and the Sara...
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    Ángela Loij (category Selk'nam people)
    Argentine-Chilean woman considered to be the last surviving individual of full-blooded Selk'nam (Ona) descent, an indigenous group that resided in Tierra del Fuego. As...
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    food. Said ethnicities and cultures include the Selk'nam people, the La Sape subculture, the Gaoshan people, and Muslim brides and grooms in traditional...
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  • Fuego, the Ona language spoken by the Selk'nam people in Tierra del Fuego went into steep decline due to the Selk'nam genocide. Although displaced to the...
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    accent mark. The Selk'nam people, also called the Ona, first arrived in Tierra del Fuego about 10,000 years ago. The southern group of people indigenous to...
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    Fuego and Patagonia. Two Chon languages are well attested: Selk'nam (or Ona), spoken by the people of the same name who occupied territory in the northeast...
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    The rush made a major contribution to the genocide of the indigenous Selk'nam people. Early attempts to find gold centered in the rivers next to Punta Arenas...
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    important peoples are the Quechua (6,739), the Charrúa (4,511), the Pilagá (4,465), the Chané (4,376), and the Chorote (2,613). The Selk'nam (Ona) people are...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ona or ONA may refer to: Ona or Selk'nam people, an indigenous people of southern Argentina and Chile Ona language, a language...
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    as it can also refer to several other indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego, for example the Selk'nam. The Yahgan language, also known as Yámana, is considered...
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    2010 census, 696 people recognise themselves as descendants of the Selk'nam people, but they are mestizos and do not speak the Selk'nam language. The Charrúa...
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  • Paleoethnobotany of the Mapuche (category Selk'nam people)
    Etymology). The Promaucaes, a Mapuche group, were the last group of indigenous peoples to occupy this site in modern-day Chile in the Cachapoal Valley. Archeobotanical...
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  • triangle, a human figure made with brown circles. 2016–present Flag of Selk'nam people 2 Horizontal stripes of dark red and white with a black lance in the...
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    remembered. Currently, work is being done to recover it. Ona: Spoken by the Selk'nam people on the island of Tierra del Fuego, this language disappeared in Chile...
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