Mannalargenna

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Mannalargenna (* 1770; † December 4, 1835 in Wybalenna on Flinders Island ) was an Aborigine of the Ben Lomond (Plangermaireener) from Tasmania , who led the Aborigines against the British soldiers in the Black War and was the first Aborigine for a peaceful solution between Black and White entered.

biography

Mannalargenna was married to Tanleboneyer of the Aboriginal tribe of the Loontiternairerlehoiner, with whom he had five children, a son and four daughters. He had a daughter, Woretemoeteyenner, who was with the English seal hunter George Briggs and in this relationship gave birth to Dolly Dalrymple , who gave birth to 13 children. She and Fanny Cochrane Smith are considered by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Center to be the crucial lineage of the Tasmanians living today .

genocide

As leader of the Plangermaireener , he was not only active during the attacks on British soldiers during the Black War , but was also the first Aboriginal to want to make peace with the whites. Manalargena tried with the British government's protector for Aborigines George Augustus Robinson by means of the so-called "friendly mission" to deport the Aborigines of Tasmania to Flinders Island without fighting. Hoping to be safe there from persecution by the white settlers, they willingly followed Robinson's promises in 1830, although the so-called Black Line for the capture of the Tasmanians by 2,000 Europeans, led by Robinson, did not achieve the desired result after seven weeks brought.

Mannalargenna earned great recognition for the task of resistance. The camp of Wybalenna on Flinders Island did not develop into optimal and unbound living conditions for the Aborigines, but more into barracks and unsuccessful Christianization, because on the island the last indigenous Tasmanians had to submit to a European way of life. As a result, the majority of them perished there from depression, alcoholism and illness.

When Mannalargenna lost all hope of an improvement in the living conditions of the Aborigines over this development, he cut his hair in despair. After his funeral, he was the only Tasmanian on Wybalenna to receive a tombstone.

In 1847 only 47 Tasmanians lived there on Flinders Island; they were relocated to Oyster Cove near Hobart .

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Mannalargenna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Aboriginal tribal leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1770
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1835
Place of death Wybalenna on Flinders Island , Australia