Nanya

Nanya (c.1835 – 1895) was an Aboriginal Australian man who founded a family that would be one of the last to live by traditional indigenous means in New South Wales. Nanya was born around 1835 and was of the Maraura tribe of the lower Darling area in the south-western corner New South Wales. Raised in traditional indigenous surroundings, during his childhood and early adulthood his peoples' native lands were increasingly encroached upon by white settlers, until eventually their lands were swall...