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During our trip to Tasmania, we had several questions about the aborigines. They were present in the island? What is their history?

Unfortunately, we had no information in any form. Auncun prospectus to the tourist, no sign throughout the travel auncun memorial. During our second week we have yet trampled beach bearing the name of the last Tasmanian Aboriginal. There avit so many aborigines in the island.

qques After research we discovered to our dismay the story tragedy of the Aborigines of Tasmania. This people has been completely destroyed, there is no more and I Desender parrait more amazing to not cross BC oir a memorial in their name during our trip. This nation has not only been exterminated, but it is also totally absent from the collective memory!

I parrait important for those who are interrested to trace the history of the Aborigines (with the information that we may have found).

So aboriènes were present, according to historians, they have crossed a former land bridge that connected Tasmania to the mainland Australian since at least 35000 years . Over time, the gradual rise in sea level submerging the land bridge and the Tasmanian and Australian Ab origenes black Tasmania expérimenteron t over 10000 years of solitude and physical isolation the rest of the world (the longest period of isolation of human history).

Aborigines have no writing system, it is impossible to imagine their history, their name and Leut earth. All what we know of them is that they were hunter-gatherers with very basic technology. The Tasmanians were making some simple models of tools in stone or wood. They missed their agriculture, livestock, pottery, and bows and arrows. N ou know the history of Tasmania from 1642, when the Dutchman Abel Janssen Tasman discovered the island.

In 1772 a French expedition led by comfortable Nicholas Marion du Fresne landed four on the island. Within hours, these sailors fired on thousands of Aborigines.

In 1777, the British landed on the island. He servèrent of the island as a place of exile for prisoners british from 1803.

A visibly ineffective criminal justice system allowed such convicts to escape in the heart of Tasmania, where they gave the full measure of their brutality against black occupants of the island. If one believes the sociologist historian Clive Turnbull, the activities of these crimes inclurent soon shooting, fracassage skulls, burning alive, and slaughter Aborigines to feed the dogs.

Then, Brita nniques began to kill, capture and enslave the Black people of Tasmania in any impuité.

" The Black War of Van Diemen's Land " was the name of the official campaign of terror directed against blacks Ta sman. In 30 years (from 1803 to 1833), the number of Aborigines going over 5000 to less than 300 . Forty-three years later, the entire indigenous population was wiped out, exterminated by British colonists, alcohol and syphilis.

After the Black War, the remaining Aborigines were grouped and herded into concentration camps. In 1830, George Augustus Robinson, a Christian missionary, was sent to remove the remaining Tasmanian Blacks and take them to Flinders Island, 50 miles away. Many of the captives died in Robinson Road.

With the sharp decline in the number of Aborigines, whites began to adopt a curious interest for blacks than whites believed Be the''missing link between humans and great apes. " In 1859 Charles Darwin's book, "The Origin of Species, popularized the fantasy of biological evolution (and therefore social), with the White s at the top of the ladder of evolution and all blacks bottom. Aborigines were described as''a group of people sentenced to die under the law of natural selection, such as dinosaurs.''

On 7 May 1876 Truganini , the last Tasmanian woman Black, died at the age of seventy-three years. His mother was stabbed to death by a European. Her sister was kidnapped by Europeans. Her husband was drowned in his presence, while his murderers raped her.

After his burial, the body was exhumed Truganini, and her skeleton, strung up and put in a box, became for many years the most popular exhibition of the Museum of Tasmania and remained in the displays until 1947.
In 1976 (the centenary of the death of Truganini) despite the protests of the Museum, his skeleton was finally cremated and his ashes scattered at sea

Thus perished a whole people!

According to excerpts from the artcicle Black War, The Destruction of Tasmanian Aborigines, by Professor Runoko Rashidi ~ http://www.cwo.com/ Lucumi / tasmania. html .