>Listening to new midnight oil album, there's a song
>"Truganini" is the name, I think, with a chorus that
>goes something like
>I see Namatjira in custody.
>I see Truganini in chains.
>Excuse my ignorance, but who are these guys? My guess
>would be Aborigine activists, but I'd like to know more.
I don't know who Namatjira was, but Truganini was the 'last of the Tasmanians'
-at least the last full-blood. Between disease and genocide, the English
sheep herders et al managed to kill them off.
-Pat Crowe, SUNY at Buffalo