Tasmanian Aborigines

The Tasmanian Aboriginals are the indigenous people of the island state of Tasmania, Australia.

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Indigenous people - Tasmania - Australia

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20th century historians previously held that they had become extinct with the death of Truganini in 1873, but this is no longer the accepted view.

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Truganini - 1873

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Present Tasmanian Aborigines claim heritage from one of two groups:

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• The Palawa claim their heritage from sealers and Mannalargenna?s daughters. All Palawa are linked to a Bass Strait Island heritage.
• The Lia Pootah are descended from unrecorded Aboriginal women, who partnered with convicts, sawyers, soldiers, free settlers and farmers.
 
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