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Truganini (c. 1812 – 8 May 1876), also known as Lalla Rookh and Lydgugee, [1] was a woman famous for being widely described as the last "full-blooded" Aboriginal Tasmanian to survive British colonisation. Although she was one of the last speakers of the Indigenous Tasmanian languages, Truganini was not the last Aboriginal Tasmanian. [2]
He was the first Aboriginal person to be legally hanged in New South Wales. Jupiter Mosman (1861 - 1945) discoverer of gold at Charters Towers, with Jupiters Casino being named in his honour; Johnny Mullagh (1841 - 1891) an Aboriginal cricketer who was known for his remarkable performance in the 1868 Aborigine cricket team's tour of England.
Burnum Burnum became involved in Australian Indigenous rights activism while attending the University of Tasmania in the late 1960s. He continued his activism after becoming a Bahá’í, and successfully campaigned for the skeleton of the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, Truganini, to be removed from display in the Museum of Tasmania.
After an affray in which 23 Aboriginal people were shot and a policeman speared, a punitive expedition was launched in which another 30 Aboriginal people were shot to "teach them a lesson" and instill fear of the white man into the Indigenous population as a whole. [135]: 112 11 November 1895. Ivanhoe Station. A group of police and trackers ...
It was an act of retaliation after Thomas Smedley, another of Butler's servants, shot at a group of Noongar people stealing potatoes and fowls, killing one of them. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The government offered a bounty for Yagan's capture, dead or alive, and a young settler, William Keats, shot and killed him.
Lanne was born into the Indigenous Tarkinener clan of remote north-western Tasmania around 1836. He probably belonged to the last Aboriginal family group which was living a traditional lifestyle on mainland Tasmania after the policies of the colonial British government had either killed or removed almost the entire remaining Aboriginal population.
He refused to go to another location with the Cree warriors, and Wandering Spirit shot him dead. In the moments of panic following Quinn's shooting, eight other settler prisoners were shot dead. HBC employee William Bleasdell Cameron, later the author of Blood Red the Sun, first published in 1926 as The War Trail of Big Bear, was there at the ...
Angus McMillan was born in Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye, Scotland, [5] the fourth son of Ewan McMillan, a sheep farmer. After an early life of hardship and deprivation, both in Glen Brittle and subsequently at Kilbride Farm, South Uist, he migrated to Australia in 1838. [6]