Mannalargenna

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

Biography

Mannalargenna was married to Tanleboneyer from the aboriginal tribe of Loontiternairerlehoiner, with whom he had five children, one son and four daughters. He had a daughter Woretemoeteyenner who was with the British sealers and George Briggs was born out of this relationship Dolly Dalrymple, who brought 13 children into the world. You and Fanny Cochrane Smith be viewed by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre as the ultimate ancestry alive today Tasmanians.

Genocide

As leader of the Plangermaireener he was active not only during the attacks on the British soldiers in the time of the Black War, but was the first Aborigine, the peace was about to close with the whites. Manalargena tried with the commissioned by the British government protector of Aborigines George Augustus Robinson means of the so-called "friendly mission" to deport the Aborigines of Tasmania without fighting to Flinders Iceland. Hoping to be safe there from persecution by the white settlers, they followed 1830 promises Robinsons willingly, although previously was called Blackline to capture the Tasmanians by 2,000 Europeans, led by Robinson, after seven weeks was not the desired result brought.

For the task of resistance to Mannalargenna acquired great recognition. However, the camp of Wybalenna on Flinders Iceland did not perform at optimal and unbound living conditions for Aborigines, but more of a barracks and an unsuccessful Christianization, because on the island, the last indigenous Tasmanians a European way of life had to submit. As a result, they went there mainly based on depression, alcoholism and disease.

As Mannalargenna lost on this development all hope of an improvement in the living conditions of Aboriginal people, he cut off his hair in despair. After his funeral, he was the only Tasmanian to Wybalenna a grave stone.