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Trugernanna also helped Robinson with a settlement for mainland aborigines at Port Phillip in 1838.
In 1873, when Trugernanna was the sole survivor, she was moved to Hobart, where she died three years later, having requested that her ashes be scattered in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.
Some of her remains had been taken overseas, and were returned to Tasmania from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2002.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Trugernanna   (323 words)

  
 Indigpoetryl9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Trugernanna, an ocean girl, a sea girl, a lover of ghosts.
Mudrooroo explicitly associates Trugernanna's lack of response with Wooreddy's numbness and explains it as a function of the nums' rape.
Trugernanna is an extremely important figure in the representation of power in the novel.
www.usq.edu.au /users/leec/121Lect10.htm   (950 words)

  
 Sorry business
Trugernanna, whom he thought he knew and understood so intimately, yet was shocked to find himself defending to Superintendent La Trobe on charges of murder.
Trugernanna pushes his arm away and falls to the ground beside her dead countrymen.
Trugernanna, with two women and two men, had left the settlement; they were heading east, robbing and burning homesteads.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1998/326/326p26.htm   (1985 words)

  
 Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History:
It provides an intriguing revision of the role of Trugernanna (Truganina), and an analysis of the real rather than imagined impact of Christianity upon the settlement.
The merging of white and indigenous culture is captured appreciably, especially in the description of Walter Arthur.
Arthur, as Reynolds says, is not nearly as well-known as Trugernanna - she represented 'the transcendence of the primitive past'.
www.jcu.edu.au /aff/history/reviews/reynolds.htm   (755 words)

  
 Volume 7 - Adrienne Eberhard
Trugernanna's role in the 'Friendly Mission' has been much debated.
Some historians have concluded that she and Robinson were lovers and that she was in thrall to him.
Henry Reynolds suggests that Trugernanna and other Aboriginal women such as Dray were highly political, and could see that the only hope for their people was in negotiation rather than warfare.
www.the-write-stuff.com.au /archives/vol-7/adrienne_eberhard/05.html   (519 words)

  
 Judith Duffy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
With the central character Wooreddy and his wife Trugernanna, (Turganinni) we witness the annihilation of a race of people, the breakdown of their culture.
Presenting this disturbing period of Australian history imaginatively, and from an Aboriginal viewpoint, Johnson is able to explore, intimately, the complex and varied responses his people displayed towards white man's oppression.
Wooreddy, Trugernanna, and eventually even the less trusting Ummarrah, eventually believe that Mr Robinson is 'different' from the other 'nums'.
home.vicnet.net.au /~abr/May98/duffy.html   (859 words)

  
 List of Australians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred Traeger - (1895 - 1980) inventor of pedal radio
Trugernanna or Truganini - called last of the Tasmanian Aborigines
This page was last modified 05:56, 19 August 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Australians   (1550 words)

  
 Australian Online Bookshop - Item detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The old heroes confess their darkest secrets, facing their own culpability in the destruction of societies and cultures, or blindly march towards their own fame, stamping firmly on law, conscience, and their own better judgement in the process.
Make way for a new history of Australia, in which Cook fancies an ice-cream, Kennedy is mobbed by the press, and Windradyne and Jandamarra, Wooredy and Trugernanna, Jackey Jackey and Johnny Mullagh act out the real past.
The combination of delicious humour and fantasy, and the true horror that must arise from any reading of our indigenous history, makes this collection at once playful and mordant, funny and frightening, and an exciting new work of Australian fiction.
www.bookworm.com.au /cgi-bin/bookmall/bookworm/returndetail.tam?&item.ctx=PO000009   (263 words)

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