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Akshully®, I think the last Tasmanian aboriginal was a woman who died in the 1930s. But I haven't LIUed, so this is just opinion ...
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Hi Max & CK (and interested others):
Here's a link to a brief article about Tasmanian aborigines.
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/tasmania.html
"Aboriginality" is quite an issue in Tasmania and its definition is in continual flux.
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Well, my memory was clearly wrong about the date. But not about the fate of the Tasmanian aboriginals. The Europeans were as bad in Tasmania as they were in South Africa. Doesn't bear thinking about, actually.
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The Europeans were as bad in Tasmania as they were in South Africa. Doesn't bear thinking about, actually.
Wholeheartedly agreed. From my understanding, the history in Tasmania is so grotesque that CK could not possibly do it justice in polite language.
Edit: I have deleted my quotation from Brittanica, as it is redundant with paulb's excellent link, except to disabuse any who might think the link is in any way an internet fiction.
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From CK above...leads to my biography, which begins:
Night Belongs to the Kiwi...It may look fuzzy and adorable but this New Zealand bird is one tough customer...
Living as you are now, CK in the land of Pomes-- isn't a bird a young woman? So in your voyage from NZ to dear old England, you grew younger and had a sex change? Fancy you not mentioning it to us.. how does SWMBO deal the new you?
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POM is "Prisoner of Mother England". "Bird" is actually used for both femaales and males of dubious provenance, depending on circumstance. The second meaning was the circumstance in this case.
But why do you imply that I may have got younger? Not that I'd object or anything, like.
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paulb, my humble thanks. I'd had no idea.
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An horrific story and indefensible - but probably no different to the tales of european settlement and colonialism anywhere. The indians of South America, the tribes of Africa, native Americans and Innuit people all suffered to the same extent.
For those that wonder however, the European settlers of Tasmania simply could not reconcile that the aboriginals (Tasmanian or otherwise) were human beings. This is alluded to in the web page provided by paulb - the settlers believed they were a link between mankind and the apes.
That said, it takes a far superior person than I to even contemplate forgiving settlers everywhere for their barbarism.
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I think the last Tasmanian aboriginal was a woman who died in the 1930s. But I haven't LIUed, so this is just opinion ...
Based on the information from the article PaulB provided,the last full-blood Aboriginal in Tasmania was Truganini who died in 1876.
Historically,
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