Luggenemenener (c. 1800 – 21 March 1837) was an early nineteenth-century Tasmanian Aboriginal woman, who lived in the early 1800s. She endured the Black Wars and risked her life to protect her young son from a genocide of her people. Her homeland was in north-east Tasmania's Ben Lomond region. According to the French explorer Nicolas Baudin, Tasmania was originally known as Lutruwita.

Luggenemenener was the mother of three sons. Walter, Maulboyheener, and Rolepana. Rolepa, Walter's father, was a powerful Ben Lomond leader. The Ben Lomond Nation, which consisted of at least three clans totalling 150–200 people, were the original inhabitants of the region. Luggenemenener threw herself over her little child, Rolepana, when the roving party threatened her People in 1829, completely covering him and saving his life. Rolepana was two years old at the time.

From 1828-1830, John Batman, who would later become Melbourne's "founding father", led a group called the ‘roving parties’ to round up and shoot Tasmanian Aboriginals and settle on the north-east land near Ben Lomond. These representatives were ‘trustworthy individuals’ who gave their services in return for land grants.

Batman "had much slaughter to account for," as Tasmanian Colonial Governor George Arthur described it. A closer look at Governor Arthur's quote shows a more nuanced image of Batman's motivations and behaviour on behalf of the government in these so-called "roving groups". For example, in September 1829, Batman (aged 28) led an attack in Ben Lomond on an Aboriginal family group of 60–70 men, women, and children with the help of several "Sydney blacks" he brought to Tasmania. He "...ordered the men to fire upon them..." at 11 p.m. that night, when their 40-odd dogs raised the alarm and the Aboriginal people fled into dense scrub, killing an estimated 15 people. He left the next morning for his farm with two badly injured Tasmanian men, a woman, and her two-year-old son, all of whom he had captured. The captured woman was Luggenemenener.

Following the slaughter of her People, Batman apprehended Luggenemenener and Rolepana, as well as two severely injured persons. Batman's style is defined in a letter to the local police magistrate:

We found it quite impossible that the Two … [men] could, and after trying them by every means in my power, for some time, found I could not get them on.  I was obliged therefore to shoot them.

Luggenemenener was dispatched to the Campbell Town jail and her child was taken to Batman's farm. This estate, known as "Kingston," was situated near the Ben Lomond rivulet in Deddington, on the slopes of Ben Lomond. Batman's Crown grant in 1824 was originally 500 acres, but it grew to 7,000 acres over time.

In 1830, after nearly a year in prison, Batman freed Luggenemenener on condition that she serve as his ambassador to a tribe he had been hunting for two years, the Ben Lomond People. He assigned her the difficult task of persuading the last of this tribe's members to surrender to the authorities. "They promised faithfully to return with all of their tribe," Luggenemenener wept as she shook hands with Batman, as he urged her to convince their band to surrender. She quickly made contact with the tribe, but since she had no intention of returning to jail nor bringing her people to Batman, she travelled freely until she encountered the Black Line soldiers and spent time both in and out of jail.