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#looted for bones. and skin. so they could be studied like specimines
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remembering truganini is enough to ruin my day.
#i kind of want to make an art piece about her but i do feel weird using her as a basis for it. so it just exists in my head
#its not like a 'i would need permission from palawa people to make it thing' i wouldnt do it even if i got permission. its not mine and
#doesnt need to be
#im sure the person reading this doesnt know who she is so heres a small part of her story;
#she came from lutriwita tasmania. during her lifetime she personally witnessed an estimated 96% genocide of her people.
#in the 1830's george a robinson towards the end of the 'black wars' (attempted palawa aboriginal genocide. it was very much
#a war) travelled to offer a 'peace treaty' of sorts to the very few remaining (from an estimated 6-20 thousand to around 1-2 hundred)
#saying they could go and live on an island where they'd be given flour and tea and a 'good white man' to protect them. truganini was asked
#to be his guide to ensure he wouldnt be killed when attempting to speak to people. her reasonings for accepting were of course never
#recorded but she did. and helped round up those people. almost all of whom died in the horrible conditions they were forced to live in on
#that island (wybalenna). 16 made it back to lutriwita.
#she saw the graves dug there for her people looted by settlers.
#looted for bones. and skin. so they could be studied like specimines
#the remaining people were sent back to live in an ex-convict camp in 1838. 8 years on that island. most died. as was the intention
#even on her wikipedia page she is credited as 'one of the last full-blooded tasmanian aboriginals' which is a phrase highly contested by
#living palawa people today. but she knew her reputation. she was considered the last tasmanian aboriginal.
#upon the approaching of her death she took a trip to a nearby river and pointed to the deepest part of it
#asking to be buried there
#she had seen how her friends family and people had had their graves robbed by white settlers and knew the same would happen to her. she
#wanted to rest in peace. in the bush. in the deepest part of the river
#born around 1811-1812 she died in 1876
#and the last piece of her skin was returned to lutriwita from a british scientific association in 2002.
#126 years later
#her skeleton was on display in the tasmanian museum (still in operation i might add) until the 1940s. some 70 odd years. and remained in
#the museums storage before being returned to the palawa community in 1976. 100 years after her death
#she asked to be buried in the deepest part of the river. where no one could touch her.
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