First Contact and Early Relationships between the Settlers and Indigenous people
Source 1 - Taken from Sydney Barani
This is an extract from the original notebooks of Lieutenant William Dawes showing his attempts to learn the language of Sydney’s Aboriginal people (Vocabulary of the language of New South Wales in the neighbourhood of Sydney by William Dawes, 1790
In 1789, a young woman by the name of Patyegarang became a friend of Lieutenant William Dawes and they taught each other their first languages. |
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Source 3 - Taken from Yahoo7; Australia: The story of Us
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Source 4 - The aboriginal history of yarra
The Bateman Treaty
On 6 June 1835, just under two years before Melbourne was officially recognised as a settlement, John Batman, the leader of the Port Phillip Association presented Wurundjeri Elders with a land use agreement. This document, now referred to as the Batman treaty, was later given to the British government to claim that local Aboriginal people had given Batman access to their land in exchange for goods and rations. Today, the meaning and interpretation of this treaty is contested. Some argue it was pretence for taking Aboriginal land in exchange for trinkets, while others argue it was significant in that it sought to recognise Aboriginal land rights.
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Source 6 - nfsa.gov.au |
Source 7 - MyPlace |
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