Truganini
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Truganini was an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman who was widely, though incorrectly, described as the last surviving Aboriginal Tasmanian. A member of the Nuenonne people, she grew up on Bruny Island in wh
Truganini, c. 1866
Violence between British settlers and Aboriginal Tasmanians during the Black War
1824 illustration of Ram Head Point near Bathurst Harbour
Governor Davey's Proclamation, a pictogram produced to explain martial law and promote conciliation
Black War
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The Black War was a period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Tasmanians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832 which precipitated the near-extermination of the Indigenous po
Truganini
…During her teenage years, she saw the death and displacement of much of Tasmania's Aboriginal population as a result of European colonisation during the Black War. She became a guide to the colonial official George Augustus Robinson and accompanied him on a series of expeditions that resulted in the exile of…
Natives on the Ouse River, Van Diemen's Land by John Glover, 1838
Tasmanian tribes at the time of first European contact
Samuel Calvert's depiction of Aboriginals attacking a shepherds' hut as released in The Illustrated Melbourne Post