- Mannalargenna
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Mannalargenna (ca. 1770-1835), a Tasmanian Aborigine, was the chief of the Ben Lomond tribe (Plangermaireener). His wife was Tanleboneyer and he had five known children, a son, Neerhepeererminer and daughters Woretermoeteyenner, Wottecowidyer, Wobbelty and Teekoolterme.[1]
Following the arrival of the Europeans in the area, he led a guerrilla styled resistance attacks against British soldiers in Tasmania during the period known as the Black War. In 1829 he freed four aboriginal women and a boy from John Batman's house where they had been held for a year.[2]
While it seems as though he joined George Robinson's mission to persuade aboriginal people to 'surrender', it is claimed that he was actually directing Robinson away from the people.[3] He was promised that if he helped Robinson he would not be sent to Flinders Island, but this promise was broken and he died in captivity at Wybalenna in 1835.
References
<http://www.ivanlea.net/sub_pages/dollyroots.htm /> <http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mannalargenna.htm />
Categories:- Indigenous Tasmanian people
- Indigenous Australian people
- History of Australia (1788–1850)
- Year of birth uncertain
- 1835 deaths
- Australian people stubs
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