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Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode, we are looking into the life of Truganini a native of Tasmania who had an interesting but tragic life!FL on I...
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Oct 25, 2021 · In the 2016 Australian census, more than 23,000 Tasmanians identified as Aboriginal, representing 4.6% of the population – higher than the national rate, where 3.3% of Australians identified as ...
- Born in 'A Place of Death'
- In Two Worlds
- 'Barbaric Ways'
- Recordings That Echo Through The Ages
- Her Impact Today
For its Indigenous people, Tasmania of the 1800s was a world in chaos. "The British came here in the early 1800s — within the space of 30 years, 98 per cent or more of the original population was wiped out," Fanny's great-great granddaughter Kerry Sculthorpe tells ABC RN's The History Listen. "My family and I are genocide survivors." After decades ...
When Wybalenna closed, its 47 survivors were transported from Flinders Island to Oyster Cove, an ex-convict station near Hobart. This included Fanny, her mother Tanganutura, the man she called father Nicermenic, her half sister, half brother and Truganini. "[The huts] would have been so damp, they would never have dried out most of the winter. Thes...
When Truganini died in 1876, Fanny claimed the title of 'the last Tasmanian'. In recognition of this, the government granted her 300 acres of land and increased her pension to £50 a year. But there was debate about her claim in some circles — some said her cheeks were "too pink". And it got far more dehumanising than that. English anthropologist He...
In this environment, Fanny embraced her Indigenous identity and made a decision that would ripple through history. In 1899 and 1903, Fanny agreed to work with the Royal Society of Tasmania and make recordings of her voice in language. She talked and sang into the bell of a gramophone in her Pakana language, which was captured on a series of wax cyl...
What it means to be an Aboriginal Tasmanian has changed dramatically since the times of Fanny. Kerry says she grew up in a world that was incredibly hostile to her people. "When I was a child, there was nothing worse in the world to be than an Aborigine … I don't remember the name of Fanny Smith ever being mentioned when we were children," she says...
Oct 3, 2019 · Where Tasmanian Aboriginal people probably spent most of their time over the last 10,000 years based on environmental features associated with over 8,000 artefact sites. https://onlinelibrary ...
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Nov 25, 2021 · A report plotting a pathway to a treaty with Aboriginal Tasmanians recommends the creation of a truth-telling commission to establish an official record of the past and heal divisions.
