Onas

They are called Onas by their neighbors, the Yahgans.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

The Indians gave Penn the name of Onas which is the Algonquin word for Feather.

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Okay, I am feeling kind of weird about bashing the dresses worn by these heart surgery survivors, so I am going to invoke a practice I learned at Camp Onas in the early 1990s.

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Okay, I am feeling kind of weird about bashing the dresses worn by these heart surgery survivors, so I am going to invoke a practice I learned at Camp Onas in the early 1990s.

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The Onas have thus far evaded all efforts at civilization, have refused missionaries, and have, to the present time, with good reason, mistrusted white men.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

The matter of clothing, with the Onas, is a very simple affair.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

Anticipating trouble with the powerful Onas, who have always been the dread of white settlers in this region, Steubenrach secured, as one of his shepherds, a missionary to preach the gospel and morality and some other things to the Indians.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

The Onas possess no canoes with which to cross the Strait of Magellan or the canals south and west; but they barter with the Indians along Beagle Channel and the west, and in recent years with the white settlers along the south.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

The Onas, being by far the most powerful Indians, have thus been able to capture and retain a liberal supply of wives.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

With the bow and arrow as their sole implement of chase, the Onas roam about always in the footprints of the guanaco from the barren interior mountains to the forest-covered lowlands, and during the winter from the forests over the pampas to the seashore.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996