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Robert Hobart May (c.1801 – ? 23 March 1832) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian of the Mouheneener clan who, as a very young child, survived the 1804 Risdon Cove massacre to become the first Indigenous Tasmanian person to be baptised and live in colonial British society.
Prior to the British colonisation of Tasmania, the land had been occupied for possibly as long as 35,000 years [4] by the semi-nomadic Mouheneener people, a sub-group of the Nuennone, or "South-East tribe". [5] Mouheneener shell middens can be found scattered all along Taroona's foreshores. [2] [6]
The modern history of the Australian city of Hobart (formerly 'Hobart Town', or 'Hobarton') in Tasmania dates to its foundation as a British colony in 1804. Prior to British settlement, the area had been occupied definitively by the semi-nomadic Mouheneener tribe, a sub-group of the Nuenonne, or South-East tribe. [1]
The Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation had been trying to reclaim its reservation in Illinois for nearly 200 years. Wisconsin Ho-Chunk help create only tribal reservation in Illinois for ...
A picture of the last four Tasmanian Aboriginal people of solely Aboriginal descent c. 1860s. Truganini, the last to survive, is seated at far right.. The Aboriginal Tasmanians (palawa kani: Palawa or Pakana [4]) are [5] the Aboriginal people of the Australian island of Tasmania, located south of the mainland.
Vernon Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census , its population was 67,095. [ 2 ] The name "Vernon Township" comes from George Washington's estate, Mount Vernon .
The Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians is suing L.A. County and others, saying ancestral remains were mishandled when La Plaza de Cultura y Artes was built in downtown L.A.
Moraine Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 34,129. [2] Moraine Township was originally called Deerfield Township, but the name was changed on October 29, 1998.