Ángela Loij

Deceased Person

– 1974

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Who was Ángela Loij?

Ángela Loij was the last surviving full-blooded Ona native woman of Tierra del Fuego.

The Ona were decimated by loss of habitat, European diseases and the Selknam Genocide. She was studied by anthropologist Anne Chapman. Loij was born at Sara, north of the Río Grande, where her father worked as sheep herder.

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Died
May 28, 1974

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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