The Story of the Last Surviving Aboriginal Tasmanian | Truganini
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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!
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I was born on the island of Trinidad 🇹🇹 I too have heard similar stories about the Carib and Arrowack Indians Native to the island. All the land on this planet yet its all about "the take over of others"!! We are all human and to ME that is one of the biggest violations in all of our history!! This was a wonderful narrative. Thank you.
Thanks for the comment!
Nevia Ferrette Same with me from the Bahamas and the Lucayan Indians, all wiped out due to Christopher Columbus' "discovery"🇧🇸
@@DIANAS5657 yes !! I have to keep it PC but our ancestors were invaded and prayed upon for what?? Land..resources native to the island?? Our people to add numbers to the population?? What?? I don't even talk about this because I get so upset. Thank you for your response. Glad we share the same history and thoughts.
@Diana yes this is what I have been told by my great grandmother, grandmother, mother, and other family members. I have yet to do my research but based on my family stories that could be very well possible..as I am the only person in my entire family that suffers from Multiple Sclerosis!! Crazy huh. Thank you for reaching out.
@Diana no I'm fine thx. I was diagnosed 14 yrs ago and seem to be doing well. Thanks for caring. My profile pic is what I really look like in person. I do my best not to "look sick" but look my best.
The capacity to view our fellow human beings as less than human, inferior and as "the other" is responsible for the worst tragedies in our dodgy shared heritage.
Even in the current day, look at what’s happening to the poor Uighur of China
Sadly religions, Christianity, had a lot to do with this.
The moral of this story...
Never trust thine enemy!!
Interesting story. Lucky for us we weren't exterminated. I've heard stories like this in my native Zimbabwe through oral tradition.
Write it down.
I’m from Zimbabwe as well and I can never finish these colonist videos. Breaks my heart that in 2020 we are still seen as dirt but just not chained and whipped. There’s limits to our freedom in their eyes.
Not yet, but all humans will be sooner rather than later
Except Zimbabwe should be Rhodesia
@@kinglissa2953 Yeah except Zimbabwe is a country that was founded on communist aggression, takeover, and the slaughtering and stealing of land from white colonizers
Her story really is like a tragic parallel to what happened to her people.
How do you discover lands that are already inhabited?
A stone age culture that's was nomadic
Your comment is a canard. The term used is 'discovered by Europeans' meaning they saw it for the first time for themselves (in the context of the narrative). I can discover a shop tomorrow, but this doesn't mean the shop didn't exist before I saw it. Plus it goes against the argument of the work, which is sensitive and well-considered.
Discovered by Europeans
It wasnt known to the people who discovered it. They themselves suffered from extreme issues of imperialism, colonialism ect...
Discovered by Europeans..
Hearing him say "discovered" after saying people were already there really triggered me lol
Agreed
Then maybe u don't understand what the word discovered means
Grow a thicker skin then.
Andre Pettersson how about hearing the truth! If they are already there it’s not “discovered” duh educated yourself
Food Police obviously you don’t know what it mean! If they are already there it’s not discovered!!! Educated yourself
I remember seeing a picture of the “14 last survivors “in a history book at school. It made me cry !
Not true
And not much has changed - "revenge, killing for sport, suppression". Might I add JEALOUSY!
Real damn cowards
jealous of what?? living like animals?? :D
Huh
@@azzking9305 have you noticed the Caucasian has no history prior to Renaissance.
YahudahMOB Apart from ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Mesopotamia and countless others?
I've never heard about this particular woman but I've heard about how aboriginal people went through "horrific" times trying to survive. Great investigation, of this story.
Thanks for watching 😀
😞🕯💔 so much loss... such awful treatment... I’m so sorry Mam... I wish you and your people were respected and protected the way you all deserved..
They are still trying for a treaty with our govenment, centuries later. It's so shameful.
So sad and much like the indigenous Indians of America. My husbands tribe once numbered 72,000 and they were the dominant tribe from southern Alaska to the Northern California coast. Today, they number 8,600. The population started to increase after the seizing of children for government schools stopped. A lot of those children commited suicide to escape the abuse.
Very interesting to hear your account. Thanks.
Exactly we had similar here. What happend in Australia was.Indigenous children were stolen from their families, there are many Indigenous people, still here that have no idea of where they came from and have had there culture and identity stolen from them. Google 'the stolen generation ' its a disgrace and should never of happend....anywhere in the world. I have Indigenous ancestors and their tribe was rounded up into a fenced paddock and those that couldn't get over or through the fence were slaughtered. We have such sad and unnecessary history in too many parts of the world 😔
@@fionabell2931 Sadly the model for WW2's concentration camps is based upon American Indian reservations. Infecting them with deadly diseases, deliberate starvation, human experiments and brutal abuse. Add a few things learned from the past, then comes the Boer War camps, more refining and modern technology and the Holocaust came about. History shows this connection and there is enough credible governmental documentation to back this up.
@@bohemiansusan2897 I never knew that. That is so sad. 😔
Actually most women who had children out of wedlock back in those days were taken by the govt. Didnt matter if they were aboriginal or not
Yes a history of shame and still many problems unresolved thanks for sharing this story 🇦🇺👍
At the end of the day, is it really such a shame to finally let go of the stone age?
Thank you for sharing. I know of her story and the terrible treatment of the Aboriginals. It’s shameful how they were treated. 😢
Humanity all over the world share a brutal history
Imagine you're living somewhere just going about your life and suddenly some weird people start coming in their thousands, telling you that some far-off kingdom you've never heard of basically just decided that it would be a great idea to pack your home full of offenders and use it as a prison. How absurd
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How was this ok? Totally wiped out! Same with the Arawak indians of Jamaica not a one left, to name but a few in the Caribbean, Its no wonder that resentment remains to this day when it comes to slavery. Smh.
Colonialism, 'exploration' and the horrors it created by can not ever be justified.
I DO find that as that I am meant to feel guilty (not by you! ❤️) for my birth lottery.
Working class people have been abused all the way through the centuries and in my humble opinion still are but.
I wish you well, and I hope that you are still making your Wonderful art work.
Blessed Be Xxx 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🍀 🗺️ 🏴
@@janetcw9808 Sweet comment ! You should never feel guilty for the past, thank you, imagaine the world with more people like you. ❤🌺❤
@Gas the Koopas You seem a bit obsessed with this video, how many threads are you going to spew your bile. Yuck!
Gas the Koopas I guess that’s why the younger generation of the people you find so disgusting are starting to stand up for themselves. A white person like you bleeds red blood just like me so what’s so special about you?
@Gas the Koopas not an impressive comment to say the least, you are letting your race down terribly. Tut tut!
Thank you for this. I had never heard of her ❤❤
Thanks for watching!
As always, you find the most interesting lives, research, and bring them to us. Thank you, FL.
Thanks for the support!
@@ForgottenLives Pyewacket says you are welcome. 😊 And I agree.
I think this is my favorite forgotten lives episode to date. Thank you for sharing her life with us who've never heard of her. You've helped to make sure she is never forgotten.
Thank you 💗
She wasn't the last Tasmanian aboriginal. I was taught by a Tasmanian elder uncle Bill that using the phrase "last full blood" basically is unacknowledging the rest of the indiginouse community that have been mixing with white people. So by saying that truganini was the last full blood the colonizers could claim no one was left. Which wasn't true at all. They tried to do the same thing with the stolen gen. So sad
The saddest story I ever heard. Brought tears to my eyes
Worldtipper, If history had not been so heavily "revised", you would have no tears left.
Very sad story! You did a fantastic job FLives. Thank you so much.
Just relisten the video: 7 more ads; my first listen you had only 4 ads. Thank you for your amazing narration. Good morning FLives.
Glad to hear that, thanks !
@@ForgottenLives No problem! It's a pleasure.
That was a extremely sad
You neglected to mention that over 70% died from diseases not direct violence
A false and weak thing you say to cover up the shameful past of your ancestors against the indigenous peoples. Why did blacks in Africa not die of your diseases simply because blacks in general have a stronger immunity than most humans?
Lol yeah, the same diseases brought by Europeans, funny how they didn't have that issue before their arrival..🤷🏿♂️
I truly enjoy your videos ☺️
Thank you!!
Thanks for sharing her story!
You are doing a great job of highlighting these forgotten lives, but people should do further research to get the whole picture.
Thanks very much! Very true !
So sad ,what people can do ,how much cruelty...
Thank You young Man.... Nice to meet you... Stay safe 😷🙏🎭
Love your channel, i subscribed right away. Thanks ✌🏻💚🙌🏻 from TX
Very interesting story. Thank you for sharing.
Forgotten Lives: (Thank you - just subscribed!) Fascinating yet tragic; reminds me of "Ishi, the last Yahi." A couple of documentaries were made about Ishi - the story of the last surviving member of the Northern California tribe who finally walked into the closest town and was discovered hiding - then ultimately was befriended and "adopted" by a local museum that cared for Ishi for the remainder of his life...
Thanks for watching! Will be sure to check it out !
this breaks my heart so much. So much.
humanity never ceases to disgust me
I know. Calling out white powerful people who fought and won bad is just wrong
Founded ??? Like they were lost? More the other way around, the natives were there and were killed and ravaged by disease and conquered only after many died.
Whitman history always makes them them winner or correct way if being.
Nothing has changed.
@Lord Farquaad Holy fuck! That’s what you expect people to be grateful for?! Not being lynched?!
And the average life expectancy of Aboriginal Australians is about 55 years. That is decades lower than the life expectancy for White people in Australia.
@@Fincayra15 Yeah apparently we are supposed to be greatful for being colonised and even pay homage. The shit is outright weird.
Who's Lord Faarquard?
Because winners write history
Great video! Just a little note: it is politically incorrect to call Truganini “the last Tasmanian Aboriginal person”, as there is still a strong community of people with Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage. In saying this though, she was most likely the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal person.
That is so sad.
A sad history and thank you for covering it. Her name is pronounced trug as in drug Truganini
As an Aussie (of European decent) what was done was atrocious and unfortunately it was not limited to Tasmania . The Europeans tried to wipe out the Aborigines either thru killing them or breeding them out. It was terrible absolutely disgusting.
Thank you
I'm late!
Thanks so much for your work and information.
What a tragic life for this woman.
I am saddened by some of the comments about her physical appearance.
ONE LOVE. 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🍀 🗺️
Thank you for this , amazing lady , I am glad her wish was finally granted.
If she was the "last" surviving Aboriginal Australian....how come there is so many of us still here descended from our Aboriginal predeceasors? She wasn't even the last Bruny Island 1st Nation person. She may have been the last who lived pre-settlement but she was not the last Tasmanian Aboriginal.
Sorry if this sounds nitpicky but in Aotearoa (New Zealand) we are called the Māori, not aboriginals
The claim is that she was the last full blooded Tasmanian (not whole of Australia). There are still many Tasmanian Aboriginals. In Australia you are considered Aboriginal if you meet the following requirements. 1) You identify as Aboriginal 2) You have an aboriginal ancestor (There is no genetic % as in some other countries) 3) You are accepted culturally by an existing Aboriginal Mob.
@@Reginaldesq Her story however is used to perpetuate a myth of extinction of Aboriginal Tasmanians, much like the Taino people today.
Goodness....so sad. To lose it all. Ive never heard of this. Thank you for bringing light to this
Thanks for watching!
This happened all over Australia unfortunately 😔
Australia was originally called terra nullius ( nobody’s land)
Yes it was incredibly tragic how the Tasmanian Aborigines were treated. A really good book is Truganini : Journey through the Apocolypse by Cassandra Pybus. It's well researched and really tells her story well, as well that period of history in general.
I ask Dear God humbly to Bless her! She endured a lot.
Thank you.
Thank you so much FL.
Great job!
I really enjoy your work, and I learned things that were never taught to us .
When I was at school the history of our settlement here was thoroughly burried.
If it was ever mentioned, it was vague and glossed over.
The truth of what happened is truly horrific and too graphic for many to stomach.
I live on t coast of the Southern Peninsula and am very aware of the sad echoes of what has gone before.
@ΑγαΡy I think that as humans, we prefer to be economic with the truth, reality is a bitter pill to swallow. It's much easier if we sugar coat it; after all "history is written by the victor".
I know now that there was horror on both sides.
Thanks for the recommendation!
@@ForgottenLives woah!
A lot of strong replies!
Maybe you aught to play it safe, and just do Boudicca and the invasion of England by the Romans.
😰
I hate it when they say someone discovered the land when the land was already lived on by the indigenous people!! Always Europeans.
👏🏾 absolutely true. No such thing as Terra Nullius when it comes to Aboriginal, Indigenous and Natives lands.
You must not mean what the word discovered means.
If a say that I have discovered a new place it doesn't mean that I am the first to ever know about this place but that I didn't know about it
@@itswirax2786 Oh please! Its like saying Africans discovered Europe. Y'all would have a hissy fit.
@@Oldschoolways168 I mean.. the first people of Europe were Africans.
Trug is normally pronounced as a hard ‘u’ ie tug. Van demons land is Tasmania. There were other native people in Tasmania that survived, Truganini was not the last Tasmanian.
Then who was @gardnep?.
@@MrSnowcatt1 No one, they still alive.
After wiping out all her people, she was moved back to Hobart, and treated like a circus attraction...photographed and displayed as "the last Tasmanian", by the very people who were responsible for her being the last of her race. Even after death, they continued to disrespect her and her remains. How heartbreaking.
The entitlement that Europeans felt they had to wipe out entire civilizations and tribes of people, in the name of exploration and settlement was disgusting.
You would think the Europeans in America would be humble asf but naw they not
RIGHT!!!!!!! That live life as if this shit didn’t happen like all is forgiven.
It’s common throughout humanity not just by Europeans, you obviously don’t know much. Just look at how the genocide committed against the uighurs of China. And that’s happening NOW
@@azzking9305 Boy Stfu We Talking About Europeans.
Enjoy -yes.
And it has me in tears, just like the last one you made on the Tasmanian people.
How profound .And how important to bring this history into the pulblic eye !
You were literally "in tears" ..??
I read in a book that the Europeans sailed the coastline of Africa, afraid to step foot on its shores... They watch, wrote in journals and waited. They sailed around the continent to trade with Asia.. If only the Africans would have reacted with violence at the strange pale people... Weirdly, everything plays out in a way that we all won't understand in this life..
The Africans and everyone else did react with violence. They just weren't smart enough or advanced enough to repel invasion
Its not smart to start wars when you are out gunned.
@@Reginaldesq out gunned but not out numbered... Cannons and swords at one point... then muskets, single shot!!! Natives never heard canon fire ran like hell, though they were out numbering the pale faces.. Happened in Mexico too... Canon fire and swords!! By the time the rapid fire guns were invented, it was a done deal.... Spears and arrows with man numbers was no chance!!!! So I'm saying, the African continent should have repelled the invaders BUT Africans were helping the invaders for their own gain... Africa is made up of many different tribes who didn't see each other as one people.... That was the issue... Divided... While European countries banded together to carve up Africa like a pie...🤓
@@doctordef324Same story all over the world. When your technology is outdated you are toast. Numbers mean very little unless your technology is close.
Thank you... I'm glad the world gets to know about the original Tasmania people and Truganina.. it's shameful.
Truganini's story is so sad thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you!
Awesome!
This is what is going to happen when the Aliens come to colonise earth.
They were even disrespectful to them after death... Despicable!
Are you surprised?
@@-king1264 nope, disgusted...
The notion that the Europeans should have signed a treaty with the Tasmanian Aborigines is seriously unrealistic. The language barrier made it impossible and the fact there were several languages and different tribes and that there was not one Aborigine who could have spoken for all others, it was totally impossible.Without Collins learning at least half a dozen different languages, customs and laws in order to properly communicate with representatives from various tribes, there would have needed to be a representative from each Aboriginal tribe taught English and English laws.........etc.etc....there could never have been a treaty agreed too and understood by all involved without this vital understanding. It would literally been an impossible task.
Are you trying to deflect from the fact that the English did genocide
Which would simply imply the employment of linguists and anthropologists to learn their languages and be able to translate between the many tribes.
We always try to keep the remanding knowledge of Language strong and spoken with mob here in south Tasmania. Great too hear the story of our people shared finally, Thanks.
P.S. Its 'Nuenonne' not Nyunoni, thats just the easy way too say it. :)
these tribes went extinct all because of greed! Greed will forever be our downfall!
It was genocide a actually
Greed how ? There homes were invaded they were raped and killed in their own home ..where is the greed?
Maybe a lack of ethnic or cultural distinction between Indigenous Tasmanians tribes and language groups, however Aboriginal Tasmanians aren't actually extinct.
Thank you for another interesting video.
My pleasure!!
Fairly sure you have a photo of Wapperty right at the start of video.. not Truganina
Amazing story. Good job!
Wow! Discovery is something else.
Thanks for this story. I didnt know her story at all, i thought i did, but i was wrong. This is so sad. Lots of tribes on the mainland were wiped out too. The whole sorry saga is such s shsme on our history. I just hope thst we can all come together and help each other heal. Is this possible?, i dont know but im prsying for that.
Nearly all lives are forgotten
So true.
White be like:
Imagine ruining life for everyone else 😍
Jane Do yeah they are afflicted by the terrible burden of "civilising" anyone they meet on their way. 🙄
I don't buy into white guilt history unwinds how it's supposed to unwind. And now we're at the end of history at least of human history and I guess eventually will you know I don't really believe in all these scientific hypothesis but eventually there will be heat death of the universe and I guess my hypothesis is that once heat death occurs and black holes take over the universe once again there will be an infinitely dense particle that will lead to another big bang the Tibetans came up with this theory before they had any contact with the outside world and everything tends to be cyclical. so when one universe dies eventually another one will take its place I just hope we're not a part of it I don't want to live for eternity there's nothing more terrifying than that
@Widow Maker that's not only an excellent, but a Ballsy comment and an anti pathetically correct comment
@Widow Maker of course they won't say that it's not pathetically correct. I coined that term pathetically correct and I don't know why it hasn't called on you know I should be a millionaire just for coining that term and maybe people are too stupid to realize that's a play on words politically correct but that's certainly a possibility
@Widow Maker Don't worry racist, recompense is on the way!
British must pay reparations for this.
Oh, it was horrible. Your research is so good. Thank you. When I was coming into my teens I live in Australia for 3 years. My mother quickly adopted the attitude to Aboriginals that was prevalent at the time. They were bad, criminal, to be ignored ... to be avoided if I saw any at the shopping centres. I was to not even look at them. I felt awful, but I was a kid. When I did see some Aboriginal kids my age once you could tell when they looked at me that they expected me to look at them with hatred and mistrust. I probably did look at them as though they were a bit suss because I just didn't know what to think so probably looked unsure. They are amazing people and don't deserve that attitude. Knowing at least her wishes were fulfilled at last has made me weepy. Honestly. People suck.
Gas the Koopas what’s your problem?!!! Typical. Ungati munomama nemuromo. Imbwa yemunhu.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fanny Cochrane Smith was the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal, not Truganini. She is my great (x3) grandmother.
Oh my goodness, I was just going through the other stories you have, these are amazing, I'm 50, I love historical stories, I haven't heard of most of them, thank you for bringing them to life ✌️✌️🇦🇺🕊️.
I remember hearing about truganini when I was in primary school
Most of these stories are very interesting and sad!!! It’s just History being told 1 story at a time. I hate how all this kind of thing still goes on but in a different way. Praying 4 better times & ppl n this world we live n. Thanks for sharing & Keep posting these videos !!!✌🏽👩🏽🦱👌🏽
How can something be discovered if it was already inhabited.
Love this
It is so very sad to hear yet another awful story of how Europeans treated the native Australians. Ruling by fear, using people like Truganini, to their advantage, and putting a bounty on the native Australians.
They did not protect these people. Slowly, we are finding out what truly happened.
I'm a Tasmanian aboriginal Descendent of dolly d rimple pretty cool
(PHONETICALLY pronounced)....
~Truggah-nee-ni~ 💖
~Van DEMONS Land~
~AY-BULL TAZZ-MAN~
😊✌🐨
like i said to him its able like in cain and abel
Yeah nah man , but matthew flinders was a freemason
💖 Corazon de melon.
Loved this story hated they did not in the beginning they did not respect her wishes .
Thanks for telling such interesting story from a land so distant to me that I don't know much about that part of the world but would love to learn more about it. Very sad what happened there and a terrible injustice to the inhabitants of Tazmania
Truganini as in 'Dug', Van Diemens pronounced Demon, you're welcome, cheers.
Well if we want to split hairs I thought it was Van Daemon's Land pronounced demons
Thank you, good one, all are tho !! Tyvm.☮️😊🦊🐇
Thanks for watching!
So Sad😭😭😭😭
So sad 😢
There are lots of Palawa and Palawa People ( Aboriginal Tasmanians) today 28,000.
I just came from watching the Nightingale which touches on these brutal events.
Thankyou for presenting this important story of Tasmanian First Peoples. It should be known that Van Dienmans Land was a penal colony with few free settlers. The atrocity of genocide was a purely British undertaking . European settlement did not take place until 1950. Over 100 years later
No.
What are you talking about? 1950??? Free settlers were there from the early 1800s. Van Diemans Land named by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642 after the Governor of the East Indies (Indonesia)
@@blueycarlton Free settlers from England not Continental Europe until 1950
thankyou for your uneducated reply
@@susanrobinson8635
Thank you for your most educated reply. I always believed that British people were Europeans, how mistaken I was. If they are not Europeans, then what are they?
You did not mention Continental immigration in your initial post.
Thank You For Sharing 😊
Thank you for this story🖤🖤🖤🎃
That was really interesting! 🙂
Well according to the white Aboriginal people claiming to be Aboriginal in Tasmania she was not the last . Of course we all know she was but political correctness does not allow us to say to a white English person that they're not Aboriginal we just give them their share of the 33 billion dollars a year
When a group tells you that the only part of blood quantum they use is descendant part, then percentage can get fucked, and even then, removing that would still place the current minimum population of Aboriginal Tasmanians today at 6,000, not 0.
There are over 11,000 Aboriginals in Tasmania. This story of the last surviving Aboriginal was debunked years ago (when it was first claimed in a book) by the existence of thousands of Aboriginals in Tasmania, who are constantly fed up with the story.
@Gas the Koopas My comment or the video???? Because if it's my comment I hate to disappoint you but everything I claimed is factually accurate.
I was taught that Truganini was the last 'Full- blood' Tasmanian aboriginal to survive (Full-blood female, as opposed to William Laney, who was the last Full-blood male), not the last aboriginal person altogether.
@@aletheia4484 I'm interested in your sources please.
@Lord Farquaad Take that up with the government, their estimate is 23,000. Its the Aboriginal council who gave the figures of over 11,000.
Yes I'm a tasmanian aboriginal!! This is always the story lol none of us left but yep we still here lol
This was premeditated MURDER!!!!!
I feels so awful that she probably died knowing her last wishes would probably be ignored, she watched as her people went from being viewed as a resource to a nuisance then to an oddity.
"To learn and understand about the history of the white anglo entity. Follow the trail of blood"
@Lord Farquaad Agreed it's part of our biology.