Aboriginal Tasmanians
Clan Territory Seasonal migration
Leetermairremener St Patricks Head near St Marys Winter in the coastal areas of their own lands . Between August and October congregating around Moulting Lagoon and Schouten Island . In October they would move inland to St Pauls and Break o ' Day Rivers or up the Meredith River to the Elizabeth River area . In January , the band would move back to the coast
Linetemairrener North of Great Oyster Bay As above
Loontitetermairrelehoinner North Oyster Bay As above
Toorernomairremener Schouten Passage As above
Poredareme Little Swanport Winter in the coastal areas of their own lands . In August moving west to the Eastern Marshes , and through St Peters pass to Big River Country before returning to the coast in January
Laremairremener Grindstone Bay As above
Tyreddeme Maria Island As above
Portmairremener Prosser River As above
Pydairrerme Tasman Peninsula As above
Moomairremener Pittwater , Risdon Moomairremener tended to move inland later than other bands , leaving between September and October and returning to the coast in June
Tasmanian Aboriginal nations -- Oyster Bay ( Paredarerme )
The Paredarerme was estimated to be the largest Tasmanian nation with ten clans totalling 700 to 800 people . [ 62 ] The members of the Paredarerme nation had good relations with the Big River nation , with large congregations at favoured hunting sites inland and at the coast . Relations with the North Midlands nation were mostly hostile , and evidence suggests that the Douglas-Apsley region may have been a dangerous borderland rarely visited ( Ferguson 1986 pg22 ) . Generally , the clans of the Paredarerme ranged inland to the High Country for spring and summer and returned to the coast for autumn and winter , but not all people left their territory each year with some deciding to stay by the coast . Migrations provided a varied diet with plentiful seafood , seals and birds on the coast , and good hunting for kangaroos , wallabies and possums inland . [ 62 ] The High Country also provided opportunities to trade for ochre with the North-west and North people , and to harvest intoxicating gum from Eucalyptus gunnii , found only on the plateau . [ 55 ] The key determinant of camp sites was topography . The majority of camps were along river valleys , adjacent north facing hill slopes and on gentle slopes bordering a forest or marsh ( Brown 1986 ) .
The Aboriginal Tasmanians (Tasmanian: Palawa or Pakana) are the Aboriginal people of the Australian state of Tasmania, located south of the mainland. For much of the 20th century, the Tasmanian Aboriginal people were widely, and erroneously, thought of as being an extinct cultural and ethnic group. Contemporary figures (2016) for the number of people of Tasmanian Aboriginal descent vary according to the criteria used to determine this identity, ranging from 6,000 to over 23,000. First arriving in Tasmania (then a peninsula of Australia) around 40,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Aboriginal Tasmanians were cut off from the Australian mainland by rising sea levels c. 6000 BC. They were entirely isolated from the rest of the human race for 8,000 years until European contact. Before British colonisation of Tasmania in 1803, there were an estimated 3,000-15,000 Palawa. The Palawa population suffered a drastic drop in numbers within three decades, so that by 1835 only some 400 full-blooded Tasmanian aborigines survived, most of this remnant being incarcerated in camps where all but 47 died within the following 12 years. No consensus exists as to the cause, over which a major controversy arose. The traditional view, still affirmed, held that this dramatic demographic collapse was the result of the impact of introduced diseases, rather than the consequence of policy. Geoffrey Blainey, for example, wrote that by 1830 in Tasmania: Disease had killed most of them but warfare and private violence had also been devastating. Henry Reynolds attributed the depletion to losses in the Black War. Keith Windschuttle claimed that in addition to disease, the prostitution of women in a society already in decline, explained the extinction.