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	Tasmanian Aboriginal People and History - Aboriginal Art Online
		Rapid pastoral expansion and an increase in the colony's population triggered Aboriginal resistance from 1824 onwards.
		Whereas settlers and stock keepers had previously provided rations to the Aborigines during their seasonal movements across the settled districts, and recognised this practice as some form of payment for trespass, the new settlers and stock keepers were unwilling to maintain these arrangements.
		Between 1826 and 1831 a pattern of guerrilla warfare by the Aborigines was identified by the colonists, some of whom acknowledged the Aborigines as fighting for their country.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /regions/tasmania.php (1287 words)

	Return sparks a celebration \| Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania
		Two young indigenous Tasmanians returned from London with bundles of cremated ancestors to return to their traditional community, after at least 100 years in a British museum and more than 170 years after they died.
		Adam Thompson, 28, of Launceston, who is the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre's land management co-ordinator for northern Tasmania, and Leah Brown, 23, of Hobart, who works for the Aboriginal Heritage Office, were greeted by about 50 Tasmanian Aboriginal community members at Hobart Airport.
		Tasmanian Aborigines have been lobbying for more than 20 years for the return of ancestral remains and have made several repatriation trips overseas in recent years.
	www.news.com.au /mercury/story/0,22884,20420364-921,00.html (583 words)

	Guardian \| The lost tribe
		There were those largely descended from the offspring of Aboriginal women stolen or bought from Aboriginal tribes in the early 19th century by white sealers and taken to the remote islands in Bass Strait, the sea some hundreds of miles wide that separates Tasmania from Australia.
		But for the Aborigines of the Tasmanian mainland, whose lives as invisible fl people demanded the falsifying of names and genealogies, whose histories can sometimes not be found in 19th-century documents, and whose sympathies are not always those of Tac, all that remains is oral history.
		They rely on family stories of Aborigines who, not killed in the wars or caught up in official dragnets being taken off to settlements on the islands, made new identities in the frontier world of colonial Van Diemen's Land, interbreeding with the freed convicts, publicly denying their Aboriginality, but privately passing it on.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4523570-110732,00.html (2045 words)

	AFRICAN BY NATURE® presents Open Our Eyes: The Destruction Of The Tasmanian Aborigines
		Twenty-five lashes were stipulated for Europeans convicted of tying aboriginal "Tasmanian women to logs and burning them with firebrands, or forcing a woman to wear the head of her freshly murdered husband on a string around her neck."
		In one foray seventy aborigines were killed, the men shot, the women and children dragged from crevices in the rocks to have their brains dashed out.
		The Aborigines were portrayed as a group of people "doomed to die out according to a natural law, like the dodo, and the dinosaur." This is during the same period in the United States that it was legally advocated that a Black man had no rights that a White man was bound to respect.
	www.africanbynature.com /eyes/openeyes_tasmania.html (2482 words)

	BLACK WAR: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The colonial government itself was not even inclined to consider the aboriginal Tasmanians as full human beings, and scholars began to discuss civilization as a unilinear process with White people at the top and Black people at the bottom.
		In one foray seventy aborigines were killed, the men shot, the women and children dragged from crevices in the rocks to have their brains dashed out.
		The Aborigines were portrayed as a group of people "doomed to die out according to a natural law, like the dodo, and the dinosaur." This is during the same period in the United States that it was legally advocated that a Black man had no rights that a White man was bound to respect.
	www.saxakali.com /Saxakali-Publications/runoko17.htm (2051 words)

	Recently Extinct Animals - Species Info - Tasmanian Tiger
		Tasmanian tiger's long canines, shearing premolars, and grinding molars, all of which are quite similar to those of dogs.
		The Tasmanian tiger preferred open forests and open grasslands, but by the end of its existence it was confined to dense rainforests by human pressures Tasmanian tiger lairs were located mainly in hollow logs or rock outcroppings located in hilly areas that were adjacent to open areas, such as grasslands.
		Tasmanian tigers lived only on the island of Tasmania in recent history, but fossil record shows that it was also found in New Guinea and Australia as recently as 3000 years ago.
	www.petermaas.nl /extinct/speciesinfo/tasmaniantiger.htm (1741 words)

	Island: No. 96: Feature article: ANDRYS ONSMAn: TRUGANINI’S FUNERAL
		The Tasmanian Aborigines fared even worse and became extinct in the late nineteenth century.’3 It seems strange that a major encyclopedia states definitively that the Tasmanian Aborigines are extinct, while also acknowledging that Aborigines can be of mixed descent.
		In that sense Truganini is an ancestor of all Tasmanian Aborigines.
		Put simply, if it is now accepted that Tasmanian Aborigines are not the weakest evolutionary link, that they are simply another group of people with attendant rights to dignity and respect, there is no longer any reason to keep their remains for study.
	www.islandmag.com /96/article.html (5198 words)

	Trucanini
		Trucanini (1812-1876) is undoubtedly the most well known Tasmanian Aborigine due to her long and colorful association with George Augustus Robinson (or Black Robinson), a Methodist bricklayer turned self proclaimed Protector of the natives.
		It was suggested to Woolley that he photograph the few remaining Tasmanian Aborigines for the Islands entry to the International Exhibition to be held in Melbourne in 1866 (26).
		In their natural state the Tasmanian Aborigines lived almost entirely naked, wearing nothing more than a single kangaroo pelt and a covering on their skin of a combination of animal fat and ash to ward off the cold (29).
	www.fotoworkz.com /Trucanini.htm (4193 words)

	Family history
		Or were many Aborigines overlooked in this search because they were already integrated, to a greater or lesser extent, into the European society and so were not deemed to be a problem, or whatever, for the plans of the Colonialists.
		Evidence is mounting that Truganini was not the last Tasmanian Aboriginal to be born and raised in a traditional tribal context but another who died on Kangaroo Island in 1916.
		Pictorial records of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people demonstrate the broken links of history where the names of the people were not recorded, nor their family links.
	www.tasmanianaboriginal.com.au /familyhistory.htm (1828 words)

	Tasmanian Aborigines win battle to vote - smh.com.au
		More than 100 Tasmanians barred from today's election for Australia's peak indigenous body because they were "not Aboriginal persons" will be allowed to vote.
		Claims by prominent Tasmanian Aborigines, including barrister Michael Mansell, that whites were voting in ATSIC elections had prompted the federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Philip Ruddock, to set up an advisory committee to decide who could vote.
		An estimated 50,000 Aborigines are expected to turn out today to elect 376 representatives to 34 regional councils.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/18/1034561315112.html (514 words)

	John Glover and the Tasmanian Aborigines
		John Glover’s inclusion of the Palawa (the Tasmanian Aboriginal people) in his landscapes, startled, intrigued and fascinated his audience of the time.
		The group of Aboriginal people dancing around the campfire have been identified, in particular by their head-dresses, grass skirts and shields, as being from New South Wales.
		The one beneath which the Aborigines have their campfire, with its 45 degree lean, actually existed on Glover’s farm.
	www.tmag.tas.gov.au /Glover2003/EducationKit/JGtasaborigines.htm (1056 words)

	The First Tasmanians
		By the time the British colony was 20 years old the Aboriginal population had declined from an estimated 4,000 to a few hundred.
		However, by 1831 the last of the Aborigines were rounded up and transferred to Flinders Island to a settlement at the Lagoons.
		Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre spokesman, Michael Mansell, said at the time the move had "leap-frogged" Tasmania from the position of the worst in Australia on the issue of Aboriginal land issues to a position of leadership.
	ink.news.com.au /mercury/eye/3.htm (621 words)

	More on the return of Tasmanian cremation ashes « Elginism
		The decision to return the remains to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre had come as a result of the British Human Tissue Act of 2005, which for the first time enabled museums to repatriate remains.
		It took years of fruitless journeys by the Aborigines to Britain to plead the case, a formal statement by Prime Minister John Howard and British PM Tony Blair in 2000, a House of Commons inquiry, and new British legislation.
		The British Museum said several claims the Aboriginal centre had made in the past could not be considered until the law was changed with the passage of an act governing the treatment of human tissue.
	www.elginism.com /20060326/367 (812 words)

	Where are the Tasmanian Aborigines?
		Meanwhile the European population grew from 5000 in 1820 to 24,000 in 1830.
		But nine Aboriginal women had been abducted by sealers, and two married sealers voluntarily, and their descendents form the present Tasmanian Aboriginal population.
		We give thanks for those Aboriginal and other Australians who during the last two centuries have tried to live with justice, compassion and respect and have attempted to develop understanding across racial, cultural and denominational differences, who have walked lightly and lived gently on the land.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/9639.htm (3421 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Aborigines' court fight delayed
		The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC), which is bringing the legal action through the Australian High Commission, complained the tests desecrated the beliefs of its community.
		The Tasmanian materials were largely collected in the 19th Century by George Augustus Robinson who had been contracted by the colonial government of the day to clear lands by force for European settlers.
		Tasmanian populations appear to have been isolated from mainland aboriginal Australians for 10,000 years until the arrival of Europeans in the 19th Century.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/6383465.stm (646 words)

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		Thus Jones dines on shellfish, a staple of the Tasmanians diet; he throws spears fashioned in the Tasmanian mode; he sits in an old hut in the manner of the settlers on the pastoral frontier; he patrols the 'fortress' outpost of an out-of-the-way pastoralist built for protection.
		This [Tasmanian] community was responsible for committing, in my view, the world s only case of a genocide so swift and so complete and the guilt of that, I think, has lain very strongly, though not often expressed, with the white people of Tasmania.
		If you're going to deny that the culture of the Tasmanian Aborigines has continued on from that period in the nineteenth century the fullbloods were all wiped out, you're going to deny any cultural existence to any modern Aboriginal community in the rest of Australia.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/Tasmanian.html (3511 words)

	Tasmania Travel Guide \| Tasmania Travel Information Guide
		Long periods of isolation from the mainland meant that the Tasmanian Aborigines developed their own idiosyncracies, and Tasmania is full of remnants of their heritage.
		Being an island, it harbours distinct wildlife, many of which are endangered or extinct elsewhere: the infamous Tasmanian devil, the spotted-tail and the eastern quoll are the three biggest carnivorous marsupials on the planet.
		Tasmanian Aborigines displayed more resistance to invasion than mainland Aborigines because they had less land to escape to.
	www.worldtravelguide.net /country/276/country_guide/Australia-and-South-Pacific/Tasmania.html (297 words)

	Aboriginal talismans to be sent home by Britain - National - theage.com.au
		TWO small bundles of animal skin, once prized as tribal talismans, have a new importance in the long struggle by Tasmanian Aborigines to retrieve their ancestors' remains.
		It took years of fruitless journeys by the Aborigines to Britain to plead the case, a formal statement by Prime Minister John Howard and British PM Tony Blair in 2000, a House of Commons inquiry, and new British legislation.
		The British Museum said several claims the Aboriginal centre had made in the past could not be considered until the law was changed with the passage of an act governing the treatment of human tissue.
	www.theage.com.au /news/national/aboriginal-talismans-to-be-sent-home-by-britain/2006/03/24/1143083990284.html (528 words)

	>The Future Eaters by Tim Flannery
		Mannalargenna, one of the last of the Tasmanian Aborigines to live a traditional life, told of what would happen if a group's fire was extinguished.
		Significantly, one of the universal laws among the Tasmanians was that fire must be given whenever requested, even if the asker was a traditional enemy who would be fought after the gift had been given.
		They were, instead, a highly specialized offshoot of the Australian Aborigines, whose culture evolved under the extraordinary constraints that 10,000 years of solitude would place on any small band of humans.
	www.ecobooks.com /books/futureat.htm (2878 words)

	Evatt Foundation: Publication: ‘Many deeds of terror’ - 29 August 2003
		In replicating this narrative Windschuttle obscures significant information to present Musquito as a criminal antagonist, because he sees the Tasmanian people as primitive degenerates who were incapable of political organisation, and who were not fighting for their land, but engaging in 'senseless violence'.
		He goes so far as to argue that the Tasmanians were 'active agents in their own demise' because the men 'held their women cheaply'.
		Lyndall Ryan, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1981 [1996], pp.
	evatt.labor.net.au /publications/papers/110.html (3055 words)

	FOXNews.com - Tasmanian Aborigines Want No Tests on Ancestral Remains - Science News \| Current Articles
		LONDON — A Tasmanian aboriginal group is suing Britain's Museum of Natural History to keep it from conducting tests on bones, teeth and skulls taken from the island, saying Monday that the experiments would desecrate the corpses.
		Tasmanians were almost completely exterminated after the 19th-century arrival of white settlers to their island.
		Aboriginals believe a soul is in torment unless the body rests in its native land.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,253145,00.html (909 words)

	Adherents.com
		"The surviving Tasmanians were rounded up from their territory and put in a special settlement.
		The last full-blooded Tasmanian of all was Truganini, shown here in her old age.
		She died in 1876, begging that her body would not be given to scientists for examination, as others had been.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_624.html (2777 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news
		Tasmanian Aborigines are very happy with this decision to return the two bundles of cremation ashes of our ancestors.
		Tasmanian Aborigines have been asking for their return since 1985, but the Museum have always told us that their policy of the ‘presumption of retention’ of all material in their collections overrode all ethical and humanist considerations.
		The Trustees are therefore pleased to announce that, at their meeting today, they have decided to transfer the two Tasmanian Aboriginal cremation ash bundles to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre in response to the claim from the Centre made last year.
	www.eniar.org /news/repat37.html (1903 words)

	Daily Diatribe
		When a large group of Aborigines was assembled two years later to watch the lashing of a convict caught in the act of stealing fishing tackle, all reacted with abhorrence to the brutishness of the spectacle.
		Whereas Englishmen tended to see the Aboriginals as relics of an early stage in the history of mankind, many Aboriginals who first saw white-skinned men were inclined to greet them as the returning spirits of their own dead relatives.
		Given that the present Tasmanian Aboriginal population is some 12,000, or so, the main weapon in their demise might well have been white men's penises, rather than slaughter by guns.
	www.sturmsoft.com /Writing/diatribe01/20050013.htm (3282 words)

	Dr Paddy Ryan : Essay of the week ... ramblings in Natural History by Paddy
		For the aborigines spears and throwing sticks were no match for rifles, strychnine-poisoned flour or waterholes.
		Jandamarra was hit in the hand and tumbled down the rock face dead, according to the aborigines, long before he hit the ground.
		To find an aboriginal who is still in touch with his or her culture is more difficult.
	www.ryanphotographic.com /Essay.htm (4089 words)

	Tasmanian aborigines - another example of cultural 'devolution'
		Dr Rhys Jones, a senior fellow in archeology and anthropology at the Australian National University, has studied the history of Tasmania’s now-extinct Aboriginal population for 15 years.
		In spite of the fact that Jones interprets the history of the Tasmanian aboriginals within the standard evolutionary/geochronological framework, the following of his conclusions are of great interest in the above context.
		Although the description here is vivid, readers may be sure that I have understated the extent of this sordid chapter in the history of evolutionary speculation.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v2/i1/aborigines.asp (801 words)

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