In the old colonial era (15th to early 20th centuries), powerful countries (colonial powers) conquered weak countries by force through aggression and reduced them to "slaves". In the new colonial era, the powerful countries rarely use force to invade, but only use force to deter, and they directly control some backward countries through "culture" and "economy". This article talks about the ethnic --- Tasmanians who were exterminated by the colonizers in the old colonial era.
Purebred Tasmanians, a 40,000-year-old (Paleolithic) race, were later wiped out by British colonists. Most of them were inky, dark brown in color, and had lush hair, and they lived together in groups of fifteen or fifty, living by hunting and gathering; making living utensils and weapons made of stone and wood; and sometimes gathering together to hold bonfires.
They were originally a group of indisputable natives, with their own lives and their own customs. But the stakeholders (British colonists) set foot on the land where they lived for "profit", imprisoned them, slaughtered them, and led to their extinction. The extinction of the Tasmanians was entirely caused by the British colonists.
In the early nineteenth century (1804), when the British colonists stepped into the island of Tasmania (located in southeastern Australia), the local indigenous people (Tasmanians, there were about 6,000 people at that time) did not know the ugly face of the colonists, they lined up with spears and songs and dances to meet the "British colonists", but they were greeted by several gunshots, and the colonists took up their weapons and began to hunt the natives. In the face of the powerful British colonists, they constantly resisted, but the lethality of weapons was too small, and finally they could only avoid the British colonists to hunt and kill.
With no home and no source of livelihood, they died of hunger and illness in large numbers, and their numbers also plummeted. After more than thirty years of hunting by the British colonists, harsh conditions, hunger, and sickness, by 1835, there were only about two hundred Tasmanians left, and in order to continue the race, they had to reconcile with the colonists, and after reconciliation, all of their colonists were imprisoned on Flinders Island (located in southeastern Australia).
After reconciliation with the colonizers, the last two hundred or so tribesmen were able to live on the island, but the arrival of the colonists broke their original living environment, way of life, coupled with the invasion of diseases, the impact of modernization, their numbers became smaller and smaller, by 1860, only eleven people remained, nine years later only one woman named Truganini, in 1876, Truganini died, since then the purebred Tasmanians have been completely extinct.
Before her death, Truganini begged an Englishman who often visited her to "hope that after her death, she would not go to the operating table and not be dissected". In 1876, Truganini was buried around an abandoned factory after his death, but his body was exhumed and dissected for how long he was buried. Later, all parts of his body were used for research or displayed in museums, and some of his hair and bones were sent to various places for study, and his body was displayed in the "Hobart Museum" exhibition!