Tarenorerer
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Tarenorerer, also known as Walyer, Montserrat, Tuculillo, or Walloa ( – 5 June 1831), was a rebel leader of the Aboriginal Tasmanians. Between 1828 and 1830, she led a guerrilla band of indigenous people of both sexes against the British colonists in Tasmania during the Black War.
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- 1800-00-00
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- 1831-00-00
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- Aboriginal Australians
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Tarenorerer, also known as Walyer, Montserrat, Tuculillo, or Walloa ( – 5 June 1831), was a rebel leader of the Aboriginal Tasmanians. Between 1828 and 1830, she led a guerrilla band of indigenous people of both sexes against the British colonists in Tasmania during the Black War.
==Early life== Tarenorerer was born circa 1800 near Emu Bay, Van Diemen's Land as a member of the Tommeginne people. As a teenager, she was taken captive by Indigenous kidnappers and sold as a slave to British colonists in the Bass Strait Islands. During her captivity, she learned to speak English and how to use firearms. Two of her brothers and two of her sisters joined her with the sealers.
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