Tarenorerer was born circa 1800 near Emu Bay, Van Diemen's Land as a member of the Tommeginne people.
[1] As a teenager, she was taken captive by Indigenous kidnappers and sold as a slave to British colonists in the Bass Strait Islands.
[1] In 1828, Tarenorerer returned to northern Tasmania, where she gathered a guerrilla band of Indigenous warriors of both sexes and lead them against the colonists.
[6][7] Tarenorerer escaped to Port Sorell with her brothers Linnetower and Line-ne-like-kayver[1] and two sisters but was captured by sealers and taken to the Hunter Islands.
Her capture, Robinson said, was "a matter of considerable importance to the peace and tranquillity of those districts where she and her formidable coadjutors had made themselves so conspicuous in their wanton and barbarous aggression".