Palawa

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Palawa are the Aboriginal Tasmanian people, the Indigenous inhabitants of the island of Tasmania in Australia with a distinct cultural and linguistic heritage.

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instanceOf Aboriginal Tasmanian people
Indigenous people
country Australia
ethnicGroupOf Tasmania NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Palawa people NERFINISHED
Tasmanian Aboriginal people NERFINISHED
hasArtForm Contemporary Aboriginal Tasmanian art
Traditional craftwork using shell necklaces
hasConnectionTo Bass Strait Islander communities NERFINISHED
hasCulturalHeritage Distinct Tasmanian Aboriginal culture
hasCulturalPractice Body scarification
Complex kinship systems
Fire management of landscape
Oral storytelling traditions
Seasonal movement across country
Shell midden construction
Use of ochre
hasDemographics Population significantly reduced by 19th-century violence and disease
hasHistoricalEvent Affected by the Black War in Tasmania
Experienced cultural and linguistic disruption
Experienced severe population decline after British colonisation
Subject to forced removal to Flinders Island in the 19th century
Subject to policies of dispossession and segregation
hasLanguage Palawa kani NERFINISHED
hasLanguageFamily Tasmanian languages NERFINISHED
hasLanguageStatus Original Tasmanian languages largely extinct as first languages
Palawa kani used as a constructed community language
hasLegalStatus Recognised as Indigenous people of Tasmania
hasModernDevelopment Cultural revival movements
Land rights campaigns
Language reconstruction efforts
Political activism for recognition
hasNotableIssue Debates over identity and descent in Tasmania
Ongoing efforts for cultural preservation
Struggle for repatriation of ancestral remains
hasOrganization Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania NERFINISHED
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre NERFINISHED
hasReligion Christianity (partly through missionisation) NERFINISHED
Traditional Aboriginal spiritual beliefs
hasTraditionalEconomy Hunter-gatherer
hasTraditionalSubsistence Fishing
Hunting land animals
Plant food gathering
Shellfish gathering
hasTraditionalTerritory Entire island of Tasmania prior to British colonisation
indigenousTo Bass Strait Islands NERFINISHED
Tasmania NERFINISHED
locatedIn Tasmania NERFINISHED
partOf Aboriginal Australians NERFINISHED

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