She had seen the devastation wrought by the British, watched their numbers swell ever-more, and witnessed the genocide enacted on palawa Aboriginal people during the Black War, which was ongoing. Truganini was born on Bruny Island ( Lunawanna-alonnah) around 1812. Out of 6,215,834 records in the U.S. Social Security Administration public data, the first name Truganini was not present. . It is said to be a word meaning the last survivor of her clan in Nuenonne. Peter Brune (Bruny) had died in Port Phillip in 1843, but David returned to Van Diemen's Land[6]. Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. I visited Bruny Island a few years ago when I was in Tasmania. The disillusionment was already well-warranted, but the understanding of where exactly Truganini was sending her people changed everything. By 1874, Truganini was the only remaining survivor of the Oyster Cove group and she was again moved to Hobart town, according to Indigenous Australia, to live with the Dandridge family, who were . The mission proved unsuccessful, and disastrous for the Aboriginal Tasmanian people. But where other scholars and writers have mined the Robinson archive for all it says about this perplexing and morally ambiguous man himself, Pybus has drawn from his invaluable, decades-long observation of Truganini. Truganini By Alex D and Sarah S. a) Identification Trugernanner (Truganini) was born in 1812 and died in 1876. They are domineering & pushy. Truganini's story must stand for all those that will never be written, but live on in the folk memories of the descendants of the victims. This turned out to be a death camp for the Aboriginal people with all Robinson's promises broken. The group was captured and sent for trial for murder at Port Phillip. Leave a message for others who see this profile. Whalers stealing the young girls and women, having to barter for goods (often with their bodies), the life-long effects of syphilis and other venereal diseases, dressing up in European clothes to impress governors, Christian leaders and journalists only to run off naked back to their home land, what was left . It has been commonly recorded as Truganini [3] as well as other versions, including Trucaminni [2] Truganini is said to mean the grey saltbush Atriplex cinerea. [citation needed] Further, Truganini was from the bloodlines of Victoria's Kulin Nation tribes. And I hope that this parkland itself will be regarded as an illustration of this ongoing commitment, a positive reminder to us all, that we . In 1839, Truganini and 14 palawa accompanied Robinson to the mainland. My friend is still alive and hearty, but out of a kind of false delicacy, he will not permit me to name his address, but nevertheless, I make bold to take this liberty with his letter: Anne Although some historians have written that the Palawa who participated in the mission were fooled and manipulated by George Augustus Robinson, others see their actions as one of agency, "of a careful balancing of alternatives available to the survivors in the face of the destructive onslaught of the British colonial enterprise." Many photos were taken of the great beauty Truganini, seen here in older age still wearing the traditional mariner shell necklace. J. W. GRAVES. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. . And it's not just about the scores for me. When Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1824, he implemented two policies to deal with the growing conflict between settlers and Aboriginal peoples. Named for the grey saltbush truganina, the Nuennonne woman was to display similar qualities to that tough native, which can withstand drought, wind and poor conditions; she was to weather her own storms, and lived a long life. Details: reprint of an original photograph by C. A. Woolley by another studio, possibly T. J. Nevin's, given provenance from Nevin family descendants. The colonial governmentof the day recognised Tasmanian Aboriginal FannyCochrane Smith the last fluent speaker of the native Palawa language. In light of her experience on Flinders Island, this was reportedly her motivation for turning against Robinson and joining with other Aboriginal people in their resistance. I will now give you some of her own account of what she knew: We was camped close to Partridge Island when I was a little girl when a vessel came to anchor without our knowing of it. It is a tag that the states Aboriginal descendants have objected to on two fronts. At least Oyster Cove was in Truganini's tribal territory on the main island of Tasmania opposite North Bruny. This connection has provided Ms Pybus with a source of inspiration for this book. Truganini emerges as wholly, spiritually and physically in sync with her natural world, having rejected Christianity despite the efforts of Robinson and others to inculcate her and the others. At the memorial which has been placed in her honour, it states that his arms were cut off to prevent him being able to swim. The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. 978-1-76052-922-2. Indigenous Australia writes that the Australian government gave permission for the Royal Society of Tasmania to exhume the body provided that it wasn't put on public display and was instead "decently deposited in a secure resting place accessible by special permission to scientific men for scientific purposes." Lanne's skull and his remaining skeleton wouldn't be reunited again until 2011, ABC reports. We all ran away, but one of them caught my mother and stabbed her with a knife and killed her. Deceased persons are not concerned by this provision. I tried to jump overboard, but one of them held me. Many sources suggest she was born circa. Robinson stands in the centre, surrounded by several famous First Nations leaders of the time: Woreddy, Mannalargenna, Truganini. Just before the summit is the Truganini Memorial, dedicated to Tasmanian Aboriginal people and their descendants. However, she reportedly "removed herself spiritually from the Europeans through this phase of her life." The stated aim of isolation was to save them,[citation needed] but many of the group died from influenza and other diseases. According to the BBC, over 23,000 Tasmanians identified as Aboriginal during the 2016 census, "representing 4.6% of the population higher than the national rate, where 3.3% of Australians identified as Aboriginal." White Europeans had been incorrectly proclaiming the extinction of Tasmania's Aboriginal population for years, even before the death of Truganini. So very much else that came between has been forgotten or gone untold. Aged 20 in 1855, he joined a whaling ship and returned regularly to Oyster Cove where Truganini lived. Indeed, tragedy is a dramatic reinterpretation of the peaks and troughs a precis of both, with all of the rounding out of story and the honing off of the barnacles of human experience that impede smooth narrative. Name variations: Truccanini or Traucanini; also known as Trugernanner; "Lalla Rookh" or "Lallah Rookh." Born in 1812 (some sources cite 1803) at Recherche Bay, Tasmania; died on May 8, 1876, in Hobart, Tasmania; daughter of Mangerner (an Aboriginal elder . George Augustus Robinson began his resettlement program in 1830, known as the Friendly Mission, and with the help of Truganini and Woorraddy, soon the three began traveling the country. Truganini was an amazingly accomplished and independent woman. Some of her remains were sent to the Royal College of Surgeons of England and were only repatriated in 2002. Allen & Unwin. [23] Representatives called for the busts to be returned to Tasmania and given to the Aboriginal community, and were ultimately successful in stopping the auction. The missionary intended to establish a similar settlement there, but it seems Truganini had no interest in helping Robinson further. She does a profound service to the complex life of this remarkable woman with her new biography, Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse. It's a symbol that remains to this very day: palawa people continue to make those necklaces, continuing the culture that lived in Truganini, and lives still in the descendants that for too long . And after a few years, those who were still alive were taken to Oyster Bay. Both had been acquired by the Museum in 1905 and it was understood they'd once belonged to Truganini (c.1812 - 1876), described as 'the last full blood Aboriginal Tasmanian' who had witnessed the destruction . By contrast, white Australians have tried to forget". [20], Truganini Place in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm is named in her honour. Truganini herself is among the many who have repeatedly been denied this agency by historians. When Truganini met GA Robinson in 1829, her mother had been killed . In 1874 she moved to Hobart Town with her guardians, the Dandridge family, and died in Mrs Dandridge's house in Macquarie Street on 8 May 1876, aged 64. They also protest over claims that Truganini was the last of their people. close to the Aboriginal people's original homes, and that if he removed them to the mainland they would soon forget their culture completely. In addition, there are also current attempts to reconstruct a language from the available words. Thank you Nan. People with name Truganini have leadership qualities. It's estimated that during Tasmania's Black War, over 800 Palawa were killed, compared to roughly 200 colonists. I wonder who the first mothers will be who have the taste to name their babes so Based on the challenge to connect people to a broader family tree, I started on this profile; however, this is not possible when the profile in project protected. Truganini was, predictably, an active part of this crusade. However, some consider the Black Wars to have started from the early days of British colonization. We took her, also her husband, and two of his boys by a former wife, and two other women, the remains of the tribe of Bruni Island, when I went with Mr Robinson round the island. [a], Truganini was born about 1812[3] on Bruny Island (Lunawanna-alonnah), located south of the Van Diemen's Land capital Hobart, and separated from the Tasmanian mainland by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. By 1830 in Tasmania disease had killed most of them but warfare between them and the British colonists and private . Out of the group, Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenneer were found guilty and publicly executed on January 20, 1842, To Melbournerecords. It is also significant that she feared that her body would be used for scientific (or pseudo-scientific) research, which was, unfortunately, what happened. And "Black Women and International Law"writes that in 1847, "the last no longer threatening survivors were allowed to return to the mainland island.". Sir,- On the 10th or thereabout of January 1830, I first saw Trugannna. It makes her own story of survival all the more astounding. However, the 'Black Wars (1824-1831) [4]] has resulted in the deaths of many First Nations People in Van Diemen's Land and George Robinson was appointed as Protector of Aborigines. I also enjoyed that the indigenous people were shown to have the same strengths and flaws as Europeans, family relationships were very important to them, they were loyal, they were ambitious they were rivals with other clans and they fought wars. "The Last Wish: Truganini's ashes scattered in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel", Learn how and when to remove this template message, Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, "Aborigines demand that British Museum returns Truganini bust", "Troy Kingi - Album Review: Holy Colony Burning Acres", "Plaster bust of Truganini by Edmund Joel Dicks", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, "Schedule 'B' National Memorials Ordinance 19281972 Street Nomenclature List of Additional Names with Reference to Origin", Images of Truganini in State Library of Tasmania collection. While I was there two young men of my tribe came for me; one of them was to have been my husband; his name was Paraweena. She did so because she wanted to save her south-east Nuenonnetribe, from Bruny Island, from inevitable threat of guns of occupying colonialists. This connection has provided Ms Pybus with a source of inspiration for this book. This family, (or those that have been traced) moved . Truganini and Woorraddy arrived with other Palawa at the Wybalenna settlement at Flinders Island in November 1835. In her own lifetime, Truganini was said to be the 'last Tasmanian Aborigine'. According to The Conversation, the Black War was the most intense frontier conflict in the history of Australia. [13] Only in April 1976, approaching the centenary of her death, were Truganini's remains finally cremated and scattered according to her wishes. The youngest of his family, William was sent to an orphanage in Hobart until 1851. She refused to speak English, would often abscond, and continued to practice her culture as much as she could. The subtitle Cassandra Pybus has chosen is a powerful pointer to how she sees Truganini: not as the 'last of the Tasmanian Aborigines' of popular myth, but as a strong Nuenonne woman, a proud member of one of the clans of First Nation Tasmanians. [a] By 1873, Truganini was the sole survivor of the Oyster Cove group, and was again moved to Hobart. Truganini didn't stay on Flinders Island for long. In her latest . He was appointed Protector of Aborigines (using the usual offensive misnomer) in so-called Van Diemen's Land. There is something unique about the man shaking Robinson's hand: he does not wear the distinctive shell necklace typical of the palawa groups. In 1847, she was moved to the Oyster Cove settlement close to her birthplace, where she maintained some traditional lifestyle elements. Eliza's family is from Bruny Island, the home of Truganini. Tragedy, of course as Emma Dortins wrote in relation to Bennelong is not life or history. Truganini (also known as Lallah Rookh; c. 1812 8 May 1876) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman. Her father was Mangana, a leader amongst his people, the south-eastern dwelling Nuennonneof Lunawanna-alonnah (Bruny Island). Person with Truganini having 1 as Personality number are independent & are not afraid of exploring new avenues. Episode 2 of The Australian Wars airs on Wednesday 28 September at 7.30pm on SBS and NITV, and will be available after broadcast on SBS On Demand. After about two years of living in and around Melbourne, she joined Tunnerminnerwait and three other Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Truganini repeatedly displayed it in the midst of one of the world's darkest and most gruesome chapters, the subject of a new SBS/NITV documentary series The Australian Wars. If so, login to add it. ', "This was the account she gave me. She naturally took part in her people's traditional culture while she was growing up, but Aboriginal life was disrupted by the arrival of British colonists in 1803. [17] However, The Companion to Tasmanian History details three full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal women, Sal, Suke and Betty, who lived on Kangaroo Island in South Australia in the late 1870s and "all three outlived Truganini". Truganini had tried to help save her people through Robinson's Flinders Island scheme but he was never able to build the houses he had promised, provide the necessary food and blankets, or allow them to return from time to time to their 'country'. [7][c] Louisa was grandmother to Ellen Atkinson. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. She . In 1874 she moved to Hobart Town with her guardians, the Dandridge family, and died in Mrs Dandridge's house in Macquarie Street on 8 May 1876, aged 64. She was a keen hunter-gatherer: an excellent swimmer, she loved harvesting mussels, oysters and scallops, diving for crayfish, hunting muttonbirds and collecting mariner shells, used to create the magnificent traditional necklaces of that region, which she proudly wore. In her youth, her people still practised their traditional culture, but it was soon disrupted by European settlement. Before her death, Truganini expressed numerous concerns that white people were going to disturb her dead body, especially after seeing the mutilation of Lanne's body. Subsequently, they were captured and tried for the murders in the colony of Victoria. He was to be paid handsomely for this project. From Dandenong to Cape Paterson, the group had struck huts and stations, stripping them of useful materials and moving swiftly on. [16], Truganini is often incorrectly referred to as the last speaker of a Tasmanian language. I created a profile for Truganini's 'husband' and I have started work on some other connections. As historian Cassandra Pybus notes, she repeatedly achieved for herself, within the extremely limited range of options available for her at various stages in her life, the best possible outcome.. It became Victoria's first public execution in January of the following year. ISBN: 978-1-76052-922-2. As of 2021, there are 28 place names with official duel names in Tasmania. Midnight Oil - Truganini (Official Video)Taken from the album Earth and Sun and MoonSUBSCRIBE to the MIDNIGHT OIL YouTube channel Official Website https://ww. After being captured and exiled back to Tasmania, Truganini joined some of the other Palawa people who were left at Oyster Cove in 1847. The Examiner writes that by this point, there were 45 other Palawa at Oyster Cove. But a further three full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal women were anecdotally known to be living on South Australias Kangaroo Island well into the late 1870s. And it is perhaps this nexus, more than the scholarly quest that it also entails, that underpins the accolades Truganini is now enjoying. Their world was upended. Read our Privacy Policy. Even when historians began affording greater texture to the Indigenous experience in the mid-20th century (novelists and dramaturgs would follow), popular distorted myths about some of the most important Aboriginal people of colonial times nonetheless persisted. In 1829, she married Woorraddy, who was also from Bruny Island, the same year that she metGeorge Augustus Robinson while he was an administrator of an aboriginal settlement on Bruny Island. Trugernanner is said to have been born on an island known as Lunawanna-Alonnah, the land of the Nueonne people. [8], Truganini and most[further explanation needed] of the other Tasmanian Aboriginal people were returned to Flinders Island several months later. This is a project as much about the author as it is about Trukanini. ", to extract from settlers what she wanted at given times. Truganini had many rocky experiences with the European settlers resulting with all of her family being brutally murdered by the English and being exiled to Oyster Cove. Personality No. After her death in Hobart in 1876, her body was exhumed by the Royal Society of Tasmania. With two men, Peevay and Maulboyheener (her husband), and two women, Plorenernoopner and Maytepueminer, Truganini became a guerrilla warrior. Major children and living persons must directly contact the owner of this family tree. Facts about deaths at this site are highly debated. In the opening pages we learn that Pybus' family have direct links to the land where Truganini once lived. The Friendly Mission began on January 27, 1830, and by 1834, almost all Palawa had been resettled at Wybalenna on Flinders Island. In 1835, between 300 and 400 people were shipped to Flinders Island. From 1829 she was associated with George Augustus Robinson, later an official of the colonial government of Van Diemen's Land. The outlaws moved on to Bass River and then Cape Paterson. While this communion with nature should be no surprise, Pybuss portrayal of that relationship is laced with moving poignancy, her prose about the bounty and wonder of country and Truganinis connection to it as lush and beautiful as the land itself. According to "Van Diemen's Land"by Murray David Johnson and Ian McFarlane, Truganini may have had two sisters who were abducted and the sealer/whaler is identified as John Baker. He was shot by a During this period, the group, which included Truganini and Woorraddy, reportedly killed several sailors. There was a party of men cutting timber for the Government there; the overseer was Mr Munro. whilst retaining their identity as descendants of the Aboriginal race. The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania. She was accidentally shot I remain, yours respectfully, etc,", It will be observed that the writer spells the name "Trugaanna." (Truganini) Nuenonne (c1812-1876) The scant evidence about Manganerer's first wife (name unknown) suggests she was from the Ninine, whose territory was on the south . [3][19], According to historian Cassandra Pybus's 2020 biography, Truganini's mythical status as the "last of her people" has overshadowed the significant roles she played in Tasmanian and Victorian history during her lifetime. The day I realised I wasn't good enough to play for St Kilda or be the No.1 spinner for Australia was when I realised journalism was the closest I could come to follow my passion for sport. Prior to British colonisation in 1803, there were an estimated 2,000-8,000 Palawa. At least two full-blooded women outlived the Truganini, having been captured by white seal hunters and taken to Kangaroo Island. Searching for their lost friend Lacklay in October 1841, the two men of the group shot dead two whalers, believing they were responsible for the disappearance. Eight years later, only 12 Palawa were left. The haunting story of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman.Winner of the National Biography Award 2021Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Non-fiction 2021'A compelling story, beautifully told' - JULIA BAIRD, author and broadcaster 'At last, a book to give Truganini the proper attention she deserves.' - GAYE SCULTHORPE, Curator of Oceania, The British Museum Cassandra Pybus's . Truganini (Trugernanner, Trukanini, Trucanini) (1812? She is a symbol of the survival of the Tasmanian Aboriginals and her life epitomises the story of European invasion. (2020) By Cassandra Pybus. 'A compelling story, beautifully told' - JULIA BAIRD, author and broadcaster 'At last, a book to give Truganini the proper attention she deserves.' - GAYE SCULTHORPE, Curator of Oceania, The British Museum Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. Their names were Watkin Lowe and Paddy Newel. Just one grandparent can lead you to many She was a daughter of the leader of the Bruny Island peoples. She died in 1876. That extraordinary life, marked by tragedy, defiance, struggle and survival, has now been given the focus that it deserves in Cassandra Pybus's 'Truganini'. 10 Jan 1868, page 2, column 7. Robinson's rationale was gruesome in its simplicity: he hoped that by removing Aboriginal people from their lands that they would more readily convert to Christianity. He relied on her heavily for his personal successes. A gunshot wound to Truganini's head was treated by Dr Hugh Anderson of Bass River. It is a tag that the state's Aboriginal descendants have objected to on two fronts. According to Law's first wife, copies of the busts, were: 'called for not only in all Quarters of the Colony, but . The many palawa people living in lutruwita today are an obvious rebuke to this fallacy. that she, at last, grew impatient, rolled and flashed her eye, and called me, right out, a fool. Well, two of the sawyers said they would take us in a boat to Bruni Island, which we agreed to. Then again, what euphonious names are those of Trucanini's sister and her lover - Moorina, and Paraweena! Co-ordinator, Indigenous Australians Project, T > Truganini | N > Nuenonne > Trugernanner (Truganini) Nuenonne, Categories: Australia, Profile Improvement - Indigenous | Wybalenna, Flinders Island, Tasmania | Indigenous Australians, Australia Managed Profiles | Palawa | South East Nation | Nuenonne | Bruny Island, Tasmania | Hobart, Tasmania | Estimated Birth Date, WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. The Tasmanian historian and writer Cassandra Pybus pushes the historiographical boundary on Truganini. Stream songs including "Pgdhtt", "Soul Ties" and more. And according to The Koori History Website, Truganini is quoted as having once said "I knew it was no use my people trying to kill all the white people now, there were so many of them always coming in big boats." The biography states that Truganini's fiance drowned. She joined 45 remaining Aborigines atOyster Cove, south-west of Hobart, in 1847 where they resumed a traditional lifestyle includingdiving for shellfish, but also visiting Bruny Island and hunting in the bush. still fallaciously recounted as an obstreperous drunk, Bungarees epic part in Matthew Flinders circumnavigation, Emma Dortins wrote in relation to Bennelong. Truganini's mother had been killed by sealers, her uncle shot by soldiers . At that time, I think, she was about l8 years of age; her father was chief of Bruni Island, name Mangana. It is a depiction of the choice posed to them, between their own culture and that of the invader. I believe some of her remains were taken further afield than Tasmania before she was eventually granted her wish and her ashes were scattered in the channel. Fun Facts about the name Truganini. She had heard family tales of an old woman picking . And by 1869, Truganini and William Lanne were the only Palawa left in the area. There are a number of other spellings of her name, including Trukanini,[1] Trugernanner, Trugernena, Truganina, Trugannini, Trucanini, Trucaminni,[a] and Trucaninny. Truganini is probably the best known Tasmanian Aboriginal woman of colonial times, who witnessed turbulent demise of her Nation. In the case of the intersection between Cassandra Pybus's and Truganini's families, the transaction was not merely unfair to the latter, but annihilating. Even in death she was not left in peace. Other accounts place her leaving Robinson earlier and heading towards the Western Port in Australia with other Palawa. The band eventually came to a bitter end. While Truganini may have been the last surviving Aboriginal Tasmanian to have lived some of her life among Aboriginal culture and spoken the Tasmanian language, not only does the notion of the last Tasmanian ignore all of the Aboriginal Tasmanian people today, the idea of a "full-blooded" comes from the European and American notions of blood quantum. She lived there until October 1847 when, with forty-six others, she moved to another establishment at Oyster Cove[7], a former convict prison, abandoned as being considered unfit for convicts, in her traditional territory, where she resumed her traditional life-style ways - hunting and fishing, etc. Indeed when dining at my house only a few months before she died, I importuned her so much about the proper pronunciation of her name He was assigned to locate the remaining First Nations people and relocate them to a nearby island for their 'protection. By 1874, Truganini was the only remaining survivor of the Oyster Cove group and she was again moved to Hobart town, according to Indigenous Australia, to live with the Dandridge family, who were reportedly her "guardians." It's unclear if Woorraddy was part of the group of men or if he was sent back with the women. Cassandra Pybus places Truganini centre stage in Tasmania's history, restoring the truth of what happened to her and her people.. 1812 based on an estimate recorded by George Augustus Robinson in 1829 [1], however, a newspaper article published at the time of her death, suggests she may have been born as early as 1803 [2]. But despite these hardships, as historian and writer Cassandra Pybus notes, Truganini "learnt at a very early age how to negotiate this shockingly apocalyptic world that she is growing up in," per The Sydney Morning Herald. In February 1839, with Woorraddy and fourteen others, including Peter and David Brune were moved to Port Phillip in Victoria, where Robertson had now become Chief Protector of Aborigines in Port Phillip District in 1839, until1849 [5]. For most of those fifty years, she considered herself to be living in exile, initially telling friends that she hated Hobart, describing Tasmania as an "ugly charm flung in seas of slate" . This is the tragic true story of Truganini: the last Tasmanian Aboriginal. And even after the burial, Lanne's body was grave robbed by Strokell. During her adolescence, Truganini also reportedly made some visits to Port Davey. Just a brief comment. Gwen Harwood moved to Tasmania from Queensland in 1945 and died in Hobart in 1995. But with their knowledge of the land, the people, and their diplomacy, Robinson was able to convince many to agree to resettlement. Truganni was of the Nuenonne tribe whose country had been Bruny Island and the Channel area of the mainland.<br /> <br /> Originally erected by . It took 100 years after her death for Truganinis remains to be returned from Britain and to be cremated and scattered overD'Entrecasteaux Channel near her ancestral home. Pybus ventures beyond the tragic trope that has defined Truganini, the sadness surrounding her death and the horror of the exhumation and display of her remains by the Royal Society of Tasmania. In 1997, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England, returned Truganini's necklace and bracelet to Tasmania. However, by this point, Truganini was already pretty disillusioned with George Augustus Robinson and his mission, according to the Tasmanian Government. She died in May 1876 and was buried at the former Female Factory at Cascades, a suburb of Hobart. 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