Aboriginal Historical Places

lutruwita is the country of Tasmanian Aboriginal people and everyone has a responsibility to protect our heritage.

Aboriginal historical places are event. It may have associations with an locations that have significance to important person or be an example A Tasmanian Aboriginal historical Tasmanian Aboriginal people. of wider political, social, spiritual, place may be a site of economic or historic events or trends. An Aboriginal historical place could be • pre-colonial Aboriginal life the site of ancestral life, a colonial era An Aboriginal historical place could • past interactions between massacre, or another significant historic have a physical artefact (tangible Aboriginal people and colonists heritage) such as a rock marking, • a Government policy or action shell midden, foundations, burial or a towards Aboriginal people building. The significance may be in the intangible heritage of ceremony, story • association with a significant or song of a place. The historical place Aboriginal person or group may have both tangible and intangible heritage. Aboriginal historical places are identified through research that may include oral histories, archival sources, historical records and archaeological investigations.

AboriginalDepartment Heritage of DepartmentPrimary Industr of Primaryies, Park s,Industries, Water and Parks, Env ironmenWater andt Environment Indigenous Protected Areas are areas that are voluntarily dedicated by Aboriginal groups as part of the National Reserve System. In Tasmania these are: • preminghana / Mt Cameron West • putalina / Oyster Cove • piyura kitina / Risdon Cove • Mount Chappell • • • Great (Big) Dog Island, and • lungatalanana /

The National Heritage List is administered by the Commonwealth Department of Environment. It lists The Aboriginal Lands Act 1995 applies How are Aboriginal natural, historic and Indigenous places to land that has been returned to historical places that are of outstanding significance to the Aboriginal community by the protected? the nation. In Tasmania these are: State Government. These places are Aboriginal historical places are managed by the Aboriginal Land • The Western Tasmania Aboriginal protected by a range of laws that Council of Tasmania and include: Cultural Landscape apply in Tasmania and across . • piyura kitina / Risdon Cove • North-east peninsula of The Aboriginal Heritage Act 1975 Recherche Bay • putalina / Oyster Cove applies to ‘relics’ created by Aboriginal • kutalayna – Jordan River Levee people that are of significance to • Wargata Mina Cave the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. • Ballawinne Cave This includes Aboriginal traditions, • Kutikina Cave The Tasmanian Heritage Register Historic Cultural knowledge, obervance, custom or • preminghana / Mount Cameron operates under the Heritage Act 1995 beliefs of Aboriginal people generally West and protects built or of a particular community or group heritage. In Tasmania, an Aboriginal • lungatalanana / Clarke Island, of Aboriginal people. Significance historical place on the Register is the may relate to the Aboriginal tradition, • Steep (Head) Island Former Methodist Church at Nicholls contemporary history of Aboriginal • Rivulet. people or the anthropological, • Badger Island archaeological or scientific history • truwana / Cape (part of Aboriginal people. The Act states of) that ‘no person shall destroy, damage, • Great (Big) Dog Island deface, conceal, or otherwise interfere with a relic.’ • Babel Island, and • Wybalenna () Three areas of land in Tasmania have been declared as ‘Protected Sites’ under the Act. These are the Sundown Point Aboriginal Site, West Point Aboriginal Site and the Maxwell River Archaeological Site. Aboriginal Heritage Tasmania Natural and Cultural Heritage Division Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment GPO Box 44 Hobart TAS 7001 Telephone: 1300 487 045 email: [email protected] www.aboriginalheritage.tas.gov.au This publication may be of assistance to you but the State of Tasmania and its employees do not accept responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or relevance to the user’s purpose, of the information and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from relying on any information in this publication.