Selk'nam genocide

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The Selk'nam genocide was the systematic extermination and dispossession of the Indigenous Selk'nam people of Tierra del Fuego by European settlers and state-backed actors during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Selk'nam genocide canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime against humanity
genocide
historical event
aftermath assimilation policies against survivors
survivors confined to missions
cause land dispossession
resource exploitation
settler colonialism
sheep ranching expansion
endTime early 20th century
estimatedVictims hundreds
possibly over one thousand
historicalContext Conquest of the Desert NERFINISHED
Southern Cone colonization
location Argentina NERFINISHED
Chile NERFINISHED
Patagonia NERFINISHED
Tierra del Fuego NERFINISHED
method bounty hunting
cultural suppression
forced displacement
kidnapping of children
mass killing
starvation
motivation control of land for sheep ranching
elimination of indigenous resistance
notablePerpetrator José Menéndez NERFINISHED
Julius Popper NERFINISHED
perpetrator Argentine authorities NERFINISHED
Chilean authorities
European settlers
gold prospectors
ranchers
state-backed militias
recognizedBy human rights scholars
some Argentine institutions
some Chilean institutions
relatedTo Fuegian peoples NERFINISHED
Selk'nam people NERFINISHED
indigenous genocide in the Americas
result destruction of Selk'nam culture
dramatic population decline
loss of Selk'nam traditional lands
near extermination of the Selk'nam people
startTime late 19th century
targetedGroup Selk'nam people NERFINISHED
timePeriod c. 1880–1920

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Selk'nam historicalEvent Selk'nam genocide