Ángela Loij

Ángela Loij López[1] (c. 1900 – 28 May 1974) was an Argentine-Chilean woman considered to be the last surviving full-blooded Ona native woman of Tierra del Fuego.

Ángela Loij
Loij as photographed in 1966
Bornc. 1900
Río Grande Department, Argentina
Died28 May 1974 (aged c. 74)
Tierra del Fuego, Chile
SpouseNilson

As a young woman, she married Nilson (also spelled Nelson), a Haush, with whom she had two daughters and a son. All of them died without further descendents.[2]

The Ona were decimated by loss of land, European diseases and the Selk'nam genocide. She was studied by anthropologist Anne Chapman.[3] Loij was born at the Estancia Sara ranch, north of Río Grande, where her father, Loij, worked as a shepherd.[4] She had one brother, Pascual. Her grandniece, Amalia Gudiño, became a nurse and politician, serving as deputy, becoming the first indigenous woman to hold that position in her country.[2]

A school in the Río Grande Department bears her name.[1]

See also

References
  1. Frites, Eulogio. "El derecho de los pueblos indígenas" (PDF).
  2. Chapman, Anne. Fin de un mundo: los selknam de Tierra del Fuego.
  3. Ángela Loij profile
  4. Loij profile (in Spanish)


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