BUNURONG INDIANS IN AUSTRALIA

THE BUNWRONG ARE INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS OF THE KULIN NATION IN SOUTH CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. PRIOR TO EUROPEAN TIMES THEY LIVED AS ALL PEOPLE OF THE KUMLIN NATION LIVED. THEY WERE SUSTAINABLE HUNTERS AND GATHERS FOR 10,000 YEARS. THEY HAD ALLIES AND WERE VERY CLOSE TO THE KULIN NATION. FROM 2005 THE BUNUWRONG PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REPRESENTED BY THE BUNURONG LAND COUNCIL. THERE IS A BUNURONG MARINE NATION PARK.

BY 1801 THE EUROPEANS MET THE BUNURONG. THERE WAS AN EXCHANGE OF SHIRTS, MIRRORS AND AXES, FOR FRESH WATER. THE BRITISH PANICKED AND SPEARS FLEW AND THEIR MUSKETS SHOT. THE BUNURONG WERE ALSO INVOLVED IN A LONG RUNNING DISPUTE WITH THE GUNARI. THEIR CONFLICT WAS OVER RESOURCES.THEIR CONFLICT WAS OVER RESOURCES. MANY GUNARI RAIDED TO ABDUCT BUNWRONG WOMEN.

IN 1803 THE BRITISH ATTACK OCCURRED AT SULLIVAN. THE GUNNAI ROADS WERE MANY. IN 1834 60 TO 70 BUNWRONG PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A RAID BY GUNNAI. IN 1803 THE FIRST BRITISH SETTLEMENT WAS NEAR VICTORIA. ONE MAN WOULD ENTERTAIN THE ABORIGINES WITH STORIES OF THE ENGLISH. THE BUNURONG PEOPLE WERE RAIDED FROM 1809 - 1833 AND MEN AND WOMEN WERE KILLED! A SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC ALSO DESTROYED MANY FOLKS IN THE 1800'S. THE KULIN TRIBE WAS DECIMATED BY THIS DISEASE. BY 1839 ONLY 83 FOLKS OF THE BUNGWRONG GROUP SURVIVED. PRE CONTACT THEY HAD 300PEOPLE. THESE EPIDEMICS ARE THOUGHT OF AS PART OF THEIR ORAL TRADITIONS AS MINGY...A RAINBOW SERPENT SENT TO DESTROY PEOPLE FOR BAD DEEDS AND SPREADING DISEASE.

THEIR COMMUNITIES ARE OF 6 OR MORE TERRITORIES OR CLANS WITH CONNECTED INTERESTS OR TOTEMS. THESE GROUPS HAD TRADE CONNECTIONS AND MARRIAGE TIES. THEIR ACCESS TO LAND AND RESOURCES WERE CONNECTED. IF A RIVER HAD BEEN FISHED REGULARLY, FISHING WAS LIMITED OR STOPPED TO RECOVER. THEY THOUGHT ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY.

THEY HAD 6 DIFFERENT CLANS PRIOR TO EUROPEAN CONTACT. THEIR TERRITORY WAS AT THE EASTERN SHORES OF IT'S TWO MAIN ISLANDS.. IT WAS KNOWN AS THE KULIN CLAN AND IT HAD AN ABUNDANCE OF OF FOODS. THE KULIN BELIEVED THAT THOSE OUTSIDE WERE REQUIRED TO PARTAKE OF A RITUAL BEFORE ENTERING THEIR TERRITORY.

THE BUNWRONG SHARED THE SAME SAME BELIEF SYSTEM AS KULIN NATION TERRITORY BASED AS DREAMTIME. THUS IT GOES BACK TO WHEN THEIR ANCESTORS KNOWN AS FIRST PEOPLE TRAVELLED ACROSS THE LAND AND NAMED AREAS. THEIR ORAL TRADITION WAS BASED ON ACROSS THE LAND, AND NAMED AREAS. THEIR ORAL TRADITION WAS BASED ON REVERENCE FOR THE LAND - A BELIEF IN DREAM TIME. DREAMING WAS BOTH THE ANCIENT TIME OF CREATION. AND PRESENT DAY REALITY. THE DURUWONG HAD TWO MOIETIES - RAVEN AND EAGLE HAWK.

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