Truganini+Dies

Truganini was the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine. She was born around 1812 on Bruny island and died at the age of 64 in 1876. In 1835 Truganini and her tribe moved to Flinders Island as suggested by a European George Robinson. He promised them blankets, food, shelter if they agreed to move there. Once they had arrived there the island turned into a prison and many of the aboriginies fell sick and died. Truganini then told people not the come to the island as she knew that they would end up dead. Robinson soon abandoned Truganini and 45 other aboriginies made there way to an abandoned settlement at Oyster Cove in Tasmania. She was the last to survive out of the 45 other people. Truganini was the first aboriginal woman to appear on an Australian postage stamp in 1975.



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