Canoe nomads of the rain-soaked Chonos and Guaitecas islands who paddled sewn-plank dalcas between the channels, diving for shellfish and clubbing sea lions on the kelp shores.
Resettled by Jesuit missionaries onto Chiloé and Calbuco through the 18th century, and forcibly cleared from the archipelagos in the 1740s; the last sea-nomad bands lost their language and merged with the Chilote population, leaving the islands empty.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Chono —
the shape you scrub through changes in 525 · 1557 · 1750.
Moments from the Chronicle
1740Last Chono nomads cleared to Chiloé Under mission and colonial pressure—and a deliberate Spanish campaign in the 1740s to deny the islands to corsairs—the final canoe-nomad bands of the Chonos archipelago are resettled onto Chiloé, ending independent habitation of the islands and beginning the loss of the Chono language.