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Tasmanian Aboriginal mythology also records in their oral history that the first men emigrated by land from a far-off country and the land was subsequently flooded – an echo of the Tasmanian people's migration from mainland Australia to (then) peninsular Tasmania, and the submergence of the land bridge after the last ice age.
The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the Last Glacial Period (approximately 12,000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to the Australian mainland. Little is known of the human history of the island until the British colonisation of Tasmania in the 19th century.
Mathinna (c.1835 - 1852) Tasmanian Aboriginal girl who lived with Governor Franklin; Maulboyheenner (c.1816 - 1842) a Tasmanian Aboriginal resistance figure; Robert Hobart May (c.1801 - ?1832) massacre survivor and first Aboriginal Tasmanian to be baptised and live in British colonial society; Mokare (c.1800 - 1831) Noongar guide and peacemaker
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Tasmanian Aboriginal material in collections in Europe, 1961 French manuscripts referring to the Tasmanian aborigines: a preliminary report, Museum Committee, Launceston City Council, 1966 (editor) Friendly mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829–1834, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Hobart, 1966
It is unclear what happened to Robert Hobart May as documented records of him after 1806 appear to be absent. However, in 1829 a Tasmanian Aboriginal man simply named "Robert", who is described as being raised and baptised as a child by the colonists, became part of George Augustus Robinson's "friendly mission" to acquiesce, round-up and exile the surviving Indigenous Tasmanians.
The Toogee were an Aboriginal Tasmanian people who lived in Western Tasmania, Australia, before European settlement.Their Toogee people included Macquarie Harbour. [1]The Toogee consisted of two different bands, the Lowreenne and Mimegin. [2]
The aboriginal people had arrived at the settlement and some were upset by the presence of the colonists. There had been no widespread aggression, but if their displeasure spread and escalated, Lieutenant Moore, the commanding officer at the time, and his dozen or so soldiers, could not be expected to be able to protect the settlement from a ...