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Onas  

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  • At the time of the first European contact, among the aboriginal groups that inhabited the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego were the Selk'nam, or Onas. Onas was the name their neighbors, the Yaganes or Yámanas, gave to this group. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Onas]

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