Title: Tasmanian Aboriginal Language: Old and New Identities
Abstract: There is a widespread myth in Australia that the original inhabitants of the island state of Tasmania were driven to extinction by colonising Europeans, a myth which is expressed in A Lesson in History, the recent poem by Karen Brown, a Tasmanian Aborigine. N.J.B. Plomley (1977, 1), the well-known scholar of Aboriginal history, stated quite unambiguously that 'the Tasmanian Aborigines are an extinct people' and, furthermore, that the present-day hybrid people 'have no history'. The year 1876 is chosen as the end of the Thsmanian people because it was on 8 May of that year that Truganini died in Hobart, in her sixties.
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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