Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2 4 Week 1 Notes
2 4 Week 1 Notes
Kulin Nation
There are 5 language groups:
Wathaurong
14 clan groups
Boundaries Werribee, Lorne, Colac, Cressy, Ballarat
300 Wathaurong people in 1836
Geelong was established by Europeans in 1836-1838
30-40 Wathaurong people in 1853
Woiwurrung
Wurundjeri People
Coranderrk
William Barak
Head person of the Wurundjeri people (Ngurangaeta)
Forerunner of reconciliation
Artwork displayed all over the world
Fought for Coranderrk to not be closed down (petitions,
letter to Queen Victoria) was eventually closed
Died 1903
Taungerong
8 clans
Areas Great Dividing Range, Yea, Eildon, Kilmore, Seymour,
Wangaratta, Benalla, Mansfield
Totems Bunjil the Eaglehawk & Waang the crow
Population decline (diseases, warfare, etc.)
Taungerong people moved to Acheron Mission, then
Coranderrk Aboriginal Mission in Healesville
Lake Eildon has decreased, revealing a burial tree
Dja Dja Wurrung
At least 11 clans
Areas Catchments areas of Loddon, Campaspe & Avoca
Rivers, Bendigo, Wedderburn, Castlemaine, St Arnaud,
Maryborough, Boort, Heathcote, Maldon
Totems Bunjil the Eaglehawk & Waang the crow
Bendigo cultural centre of Dja Dja Wurrung
Dja Dja Wurrung Aboriginal Associations Inc. formed 1982
Boon Wurrung
6 clans
Boundaries Mordialloc, Port Phillip Bay, Western Port,
Mornington Peninsula
Linked with Tasmania (Palawa people)
Totems Bunjil the Eaglehawk & Waang the crow
Derrimut ancestor of the Boon Wurrung people
Honoured by the early settlers
Informed them of an attack by the Woiwurrung group
Cadigal Wangal
Land use
Used to hunt, trap, fish and forage for fruit and plants
Expert firestick farmers burning the scrub between large
trees (park-like appearance)
Ash from the burning fertilized soil, bringing fresh shoots of
grass this attracted kangaroos & wallabies (hunted by the
people)
Cadigal & Wangal people did not own the land but belonged to
the land
Biological Zones
Mudflats
Located along the riverbed
People foraged through the muddy beds for the life
forms that flourished there (mud-whelks, worms,
mangrove snails, etc.)
Vegetation was limited to mangroves as they could
survive the muddy conditions
Floodplain Forest
Now Marrickville golf course, Steel park and Mackey
park
Bark used to make canoes
Plants with edible roots & tubers
Rushes & reeds provided fibres used to weave
Flooding people lived on higher ground