Wikipedia article of the day for May 7, 2026

The Wikipedia article of the day for May 7, 2026 is Truganini.
Truganini (c. 1812 – 8 May 1876) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman of the Nuenonne people who was once widely described as the last surviving Aboriginal Tasmanian. She grew up on Bruny Island and saw the death and displacement of much of Tasmania's Aboriginal population during the Black War. She accompanied George Augustus Robinson as a guide on expeditions that resulted in the exile of Tasmania's remaining Aboriginal population; Truganini herself was exiled to the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment after the expeditions in 1835. She spent a period in the Port Phillip District (modern-day Victoria) where she was tried and acquitted for involvement in the murder of two whalers. She was later moved to Oyster Cove, where by 1872 she was the only Aboriginal resident left and was mythologised as the last of her race. The narrative that Truganini was the last Aboriginal Tasmanian is rejected by scholars and by the contemporary Aboriginal Tasmanian community. She has become a symbol of what some have characterised as the genocide of Indigenous Australians.