History Boon wurrung

1 history

1.1 first contact
1.2 dispossession
1.3 territory

history
first contact

the boon wurrung clans have been aware of europeans, people of coast watched explorers ships sail past, enter port phillip , western port. initial contact made in february 1801, when lieutenant murray , crew lady nelson came ashore fresh water near present-day sorrento. wary exchange of spears , stone axes shirts, mirrors , steel axe, ended when british panicked, resulting in spears flying, musket shots , use of ship s cannon, wounding several fleeing boon wurrung people.

the following month, captain milius french ship naturaliste, in baudin expedition, danced alone on beach @ western port natives, in more peaceful contact.

just before , overlapping period of british exploration , settlement, boon wurrung involved in long-running dispute gunai/kurnai people gippsland. according william barak, last traditional elder of wurundjeri people, conflict dispute on resources, resulted in heavy casualties being suffered boon wurrung. many gunnai raids occurred abduct boon wurrung women. yowengerra had been annihilated 1836, largely result of attacks gunai. during 1833-1834 around 60-70 boon wurrung people, if report has been correctly interpreted, may have been killed in raid gunai when camped north of carrum carrum swamp.

dispossession

the first british settlement occurred @ sullivan bay in october 1803, near modern-day sorrento, victoria, under command of lieutenant david collins. william buckley, convict, escaped abortive settlement , lived more 30 years wathaurong people before approaching john batman s party in 1835.

the boon wurrung people, living along port phillip , western port coast, may have had livelihoods affected european seal hunters. sealers abduction of tasmanian native women may have caused intertribal conflicts, , analogy, may apply boon wurrung, coastlands visited sealers. report jules dumont d urville in 1830 attributed absence of boon wurrung on phillip island, camp sealers, due latter s behavior. late 1833, 9 woiwurrung , boon wurrung women, , boy, yonki yonka, kidnapped , ferried across sealers bass strait island bases. contact sealers have exposed coastal tribes european diseases, , have exercised heavy impact on demographics, , economic , social ties binding wurundjeri , boon wurrung peoples, possible effects of infectious diseases contracted these sealers.

james fleming, 1 of party of surveyor charles grimes in hms cumberland explored maribyrnong river , yarra river far dights falls in february 1803, reported small pox scars on several aboriginal people met, suggesting small pox epidemic might have swept through tribes around port philip before 1803, reducing population. broome puts forward 2 epidemics of small pox decimated population of kulin tribes perhaps killing half each time in 1790s , again around 1830. theory has been challenged, however, modern historical diagnosticians, argue observed symptoms in ethnographical literature compatible impetigo , ringworm.

one particularly notable person @ time of european settlement in victoria derrimut, boon wurrung elder, informed european settlers in october 1835 of impending attack clans woiwurrung group. colonists armed themselves, , attack averted. benbow , billibellary, wurundjeri, acted protect colonists part of duty of hospitality. derrimut later became disillusioned , died in benevolent asylum @ age of 54 years in 1864. few colonists erected tombstone derrimut in melbourne general cemetery in honour.

by 1839 boon wurrunghad been reduced 83 people, 4 of 19 children under 4 years old, probable pre-contact population of greater 300 people. 1850 protector william thomas estimated 28 boon wurrung people.

in 1852 boon wurrung allocated 340 hectares @ mordialloc creek while woiworrung gained 782 hectares along yarra @ warrandyte. these reserves never staffed whites , not permanent camps, acted distribution depots rations , blankets distributed, intention being keep tribes away growing settlement of melbourne. aboriginal protection board revoked these 2 reserves in 1862-1863, considering them close melbourne.

in march 1863 after 3 years of upheaval, surviving kulin leaders, among them simon wonga , william barak, led forty wurundjeri, taungurong (goulburn river) , bunurong people on black spur , squatted on traditional camping site on badger creek near healesville , requested ownership of site. became coranderrk station, named after woiwurrung word victorian christmas bush. coranderrk closed in 1924 , occupants moved lake tyers in gippsland.

territory

in boon wurrung thought, territory carved out creator lohan moved yarra flats down final resting place @ wa-mung and, custodians of marine-bek country, required outsiders observe ritual prohibitions , learn language if newcomers enter land without harm.

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