The Ona people: life and death in Tierra del Fuego

Duration: 55

Year Published: 1976

Creator: Documentary Educational Resources

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Explores the culture, history and eventual decline of a now extinct group of hunters and gatherers in Tierra del Fuego. Using old photographs and oral histories, the film re-enacts the Ona (Selk'nam) Indians' once flourishing civilization, and chronicles its tragic extermination in the early 1900's at the hands of foreign explorers and immigrants.

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