Truganini's story has always been told as tragedy. She was so much more than that | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Mon, 16/03/2020 - 3:30am

A new biography does profound service to this remarkable First Nations woman, whose life is so often reduced to tropes

Too many prominent Indigenous figures are recalled in popular myth and history as supposedly having slipped between traditional and European worlds.

Even when historians began affording greater texture to the Indigenous experience in the mid-20th century (novelists and dramaturgs would follow), popular distorted myths about some of the most important Aboriginal people of colonial times nonetheless persisted.