1. Tunnerminnerwait was known by several other names including Pevay, Jack of Cape Grim, Tunninerpareway and renamed Jack Napoleon Tarraparrura by George Robinson.
13 Facts About Tunnerminnerwait
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Tunnerminnerwait was born on Robbins Island in Tasmania in 1812.
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Tunnerminnerwait belonged to the Parperloihener clan of the Aboriginal North West nation in Tasmania.
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Tunnerminnerwait was known as Peevay, Napoleon, Jack of Cape Grim, Jack Napoleon Tarraparrura and Tunninerpareway.
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Tunnerminnerwait's wife was Planobeena who was the sister of Aboriginal leader and freedom fighter Eumarrah.
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Tunnerminnerwait grew up on the island of Tasmania, the second British settlement area in Australia after Sydney Cove.
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Tunnerminnerwait first met civil servant George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector of Aborigines, at Robbins Island in June 1830.
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Tunnerminnerwait worked for Robinson as one of his guides on expeditions around the island from 1830 to 1835.
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In October 1835 Tunnerminnerwait went with Robinson to Flinders Island, a settlement where the remaining Aboriginal population were exiled.
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Tunnerminnerwait went with George Robinson on a major tour of the Western District from March to August 1841.
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Tunnerminnerwait's Honour did not wish that justice should be so administered as to afford murderers to escape the justice of the law: he did not wish such a thing to occur in his district.
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Tunnerminnerwait was reported as saying that "after his death he would join his father in Van Diemen's Land and hunt kangaroo".
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Together with Maulboyheenner, Tunnerminnerwait was executed for murder on 20 January 1842.