Ángela Loij

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Ángela Loij (died 28 May 1974) 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.^[1] Loij was born at Sara, north of the Río Grande, where her father worked as sheep herder.^[2]

References

↑ Ángela Loij profile
↑ Loij profile (in Spanish)

Persondata
Name	Loij, Angela
Alternative names
Short description	Last full-blooded person of the Ona race
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	28 May 1974
Place of death	Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

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