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The Last Tasmanian Aboriginal

Truganini, also known as Lalla Rookh and Lydgugee, is famously advertised as the last full-blooded Aboriginal of the Palawa people in Tasmania. By the time of her death in 1876, she had become tragically mythologized as “the last Tasmanian Aboriginal.” Her final plea—to be cremated and her ashes scattered in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel—was ignored. Instead, her body was exhumed and her skeleton went on to be displayed in a museum for nearly a century as a scientific curiosity. This story follows her last days, her spirit’s torment, and her eventual liberation as her remains were finally returned to the sea……