>On Aug 27, 1:02 am, "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@
earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> "Tasmanian" is not a nationality, to be sure,
Perhaps at one time was . Per Wiki :
" Tasmania was first inhabited by the Tasmanian Aborigines. Evidence
indicates their presence in the region, later to become an island, at
least 35,000 years ago.[13] Rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from
mainland Australia about 10,000 years ago.
By the time of European contact, the Aboriginal people in Tasmania had
nine major ethnic groups. At the time of British settlement in 1803,
the indigenous population was estimated at between 5,000 and 10,000
people. Through the introduction of infectious diseases to which they
had no immunity, war, persecution, and intermarriage,[14] the
population dwindled to 300 by 1833. Almost all of the indigenous
population was relocated to Flinders Island by George Augustus
Robinson.
A woman named Truganini (1812–76) is generally recognised as the last
full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine. Strong evidence suggests that the
last survivor was another woman, Fanny Cochrane Smith, who was born at
Wybalena and died in 1905.[15] "
Are there any indigenous Californians left ?
Dufus