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Aboriginal connection
For 35,000 years the Tarkine has been the home to the Tasmanian Aboriginal tarkiner people who inhabited the Sandy Cape region of this island’s wild west coast.
The name Tarkine means belonging to, or of the tarkiner. The Aboriginal community know it as (‘tar-keen-nee’) and continue a strong cultural connection to this special place today.
Tarkine is a cultural landscape – a place of very special meaning
The Tarkine represents a highly valued landscape, rich in natural and cultural heritage.
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When you visit the Tarkine understand that you are privileged to be on their land, please respectively acknowledge the traditional owners, past and present…. tread carefully knowing that the Tarkine is a cultural landscape – a place of very special meaning… it holds testament of a sophisticated community… one that still belongs here.
When in the Tarkine take time to imagine the profound sadness of the tarkiner people and the many other Tasmanian Aboriginal groups who called this place home… terrorised by settlers, taken from their homes, subjected to government backed genocide… their sustainable culture of 35,000 years desecrated within less than a generation.
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