These kinship groups are defined as Teen Toomele Menennye (Big River) and Tahune Linah (Huon) respectively.
Some of the Lia Pootah claim to be descended from the people of Bruny Island and from the Toogee of Tasmania’s West Coast.
[1] The Lia Pootah say that it is inaccurate to claim (as some historians have done) that all Aboriginal people were removed from the Tasmanian mainland in the nineteenth century.
This, they argue, has had the effect of excluding the Lia Pootah from government recognition and from full involvement in Aboriginal affairs.
[3] The Palawa leader most strongly opposed to Lia Pootah claims to Aboriginality is lawyer and activist Michael Mansell, one of the founders of the TAC.