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Description acceptable. William Driver publicized his “Old Glory” flag by escorting 65 of these people’s descendants. A certain territory’s claim to being the first to grant women’s suffrage stems from an 1838 appeal made by these people’s descendants to Russell Elliott for protection from whaling crews. These people were forced to dance to jigs played by Michael Byrn, a blind Irish fiddler. The last surviving one of these people was visited by Mayhew Folger’s Topaz and lent his name to the settlement of Adamstown. (10[1])Kew (10[1])Gardens houses (10[1])a tapa cloth (10[1])possibly created by Mauatua (-5[1])(“MAH-wuh-TOO-uh”), the widow (10[1])of one of these people (-5[1])whose descendants included Thursday October. (10[2])The HMS (10[1])Pandora (-5[1])was sent (10[1])out to (-5[1])arrest these people, (10[2])many (10[1])of whom ended up (10[1])on the Pitcairn (10[1])Islands. (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])Fletcher (10[1])Christian led what group in rebelling against William Bligh? ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

ANSWER: mutineers on the HMS Bounty [accept descriptions of people who mutinied against William Bligh; accept descendants of mutineers on the HMS Bounty; prompt on crew of the HMS Bounty; prompt on Pitcairn Islanders or Pitcairners or Pitkerners or Pitcairnese]
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