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    The document discusses the genocide of the Selk'nam people who inhabited Tierra del Fuego in South America from the late 1800s to early 1900s. Their population was reduced from around 3000 to 500 during this period due to attacks from settlers and prospectors. Bounties were paid for killing Selk'nam people and their culture and way of life was largely destroyed.

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    Selk'Nam Genocide

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    Selk'namgenocide
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    TheSelk'namgenocidewasthegenocideoftheSelk'nampeople,indigenousinhabitantsofTierradelFuegoin
    SouthAmerica,fromthesecondhalfofthe19thtotheearly20thcentury.Spanningaperiodofbetweentenand
    fifteenyearstheSelk'nam,whichhadanestimatedpopulationofsomethreethousand,sawtheirnumbersreduced
    to500.[1]

    Contents
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    History
    Seealso
    References
    Bibliography
    Furtherreading
    Externallinks

    History
    TheSelk'nampeople,alsoknownastheOna(peopleofthenorth),werean
    indigenouspeoplewhoinhabitedthenortheasternpartofthearchipelagoofTierra
    delFuegoforthousandsofyearsbeforeEuropeansarrived.Theywerenomads
    knownas"footpeople,"astheydidtheirhuntingonland,ratherthanbeing
    seafarers.
    ThelastfullbloodedSelk'nam,ngelaLoij,diedin1974.Theywereoneofthe
    lastaboriginalgroupsinSouthAmericatobereachedbyEuropeans.Accordingto
    the2010UnitedNationsEducational,ScientificandCulturalOrganization
    (UNESCO)AtlasoftheWorld'sLanguagesinDanger,theOnalanguage,believed
    tobepartoftheChonanfamily,isconsideredextinct,asthelastspeakersdiedin
    the1980s.[2]
    TheSelk'namhadlivedforthousandsofyearsaseminomadiclifeinIslaGrande
    deTierradelFuego(literally,"bigislandoflandoffire"itsnamewasbasedon
    earlySpanishexplorers'observationsofsmokefromSelk'nambonfires.)They
    livedinthenortheast,withtheHaushpeopletotheireastontheMitrePeninsula,
    andtheYaghanpeopletothewestandsouth,inthecentralpartofthemainisland
    andthroughoutsouthernislandsofthearchipelago.

    JuliusPopperduringahunt
    oftheOnapeople.Inthelate
    19thcentury,estancierosand
    goldprospectorslauncheda
    campaignofextermination
    againsttheindigenous
    peoplesofTierradelFuego.

    About4,000Selk'namwerealiveinthemidnineteenthcenturyby1930thishad
    beenreducedtoabout100.Cattlebreeders,farmersandgoldprospectorsfrom
    England,France,NorthAmerica,ChileandArgentinahadenteredtheregion,and
    werejoinedbyadventurersandotherfortuneseekers.Thenativeswerepliedwith
    Selk'namchildren,1898
    alcohol,deportedandexterminated,withbountiespaidtothemostruthless
    hunters.[3]ThelargerancherstriedtorunofftheSelk'nam,thenbeganacampaign
    ofexterminationagainstthem,withthecomplianceoftheArgentineandChileangovernments.Largecompanies
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    paidsheepfarmersormilitiaabountyforeachSelk'namdead,whichwasconfirmedonpresentationofapairof
    handsorears,orlateracompleteskull.Theyweregivenmoreforthedeathofawomanthanaman.Inaddition,
    missionariesdisruptedtheirlivelihoodthroughforciblerelocationandintroduceddeadlyepidemics.
    RepressionagainsttheSelk'nampersistedintotheearlytwentiethcentury.[4]ChilemovedsomeSelk'namto
    DawsonIsland,confiningtheminaninternmentorconcentrationcamp.ArgentinafinallyallowedSalesian
    missionariestoaidtheSelk'namandattempttoassimilatethem,buttheircultureandpeoplewerelargely
    destroyed.

    Seealso
    JuliusPopper
    SociedadExplotadoradeTierradelFuego
    TierradelFuegoGoldRush
    Fuegians

    References
    1.Chapman2010,p.544.
    2.Adelaar2010,p.92.

    3.Gardini,Walter(1984).

    3.Gardini,Walter(1984).
    "RestoringtheHonourofan
    IndianTribeRescatedeuna
    tribu".Anthropos.Bd.79,H.
    4./6.:64547.
    4.Adelaar2010,p.92.

    4.Adelaar2010,p.92.

    Bibliography
    Adelaar,Willem(2010)."SouthAmerica".InMoseley,Christopher.AtlasoftheWorld'sLanguagesinDanger(3rd
    Reviseded.).UNESCO.pp.8694.ISBN9789231040962.
    Chapman,Anne(2010).EuropeanEncounterswiththeYamanaPeopleofCapeHorn,BeforeandAfterDarwin(1sted.).
    CambridgeUniversityPress.ISBN9780521513791.

    Furtherreading
    LuisAlbertoBorrero,LosSelk'nam(Onas),Galerna,BuenosAires2007.
    LucasBridges,UttermostPartoftheEarth,London1948.

    Externallinks
    MediarelatedtoSelk'namGenocideatWikimediaCommons
    MontesdeGonzales,AnaChapman,Anne(1977)."LosOnas:vidaymuerteenTerradelFuego"
    (YouTube).ElComiteArgentinodelfilmAntropologico.
    GenocideInChile:AMonumentIsNotEnough(http://intercontinentalcry.org/genocideinchileamonume
    ntisnotenough/)
    Retrievedfrom"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selk%27nam_genocide&oldid=749084489"
    Categories: Selk'nampeople 19thcenturyinArgentina 19thcenturyinChile 20thcenturyinArgentina
    20thcenturyinChile EconomichistoryofArgentina EconomichistoryofChile
    GenocideofindigenouspeoplesoftheAmericas HumanrightsinArgentina HumanrightsinChile
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