BUNWRONG GROUP IN AUSTRALIA

THE BUNWRONG ARE INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS OF THE KLEIN NATION IN SOUTH CENTRAL AUSTRAILIA. PRIOR TO EUROPEANS THEY LIVED AS ALL PEOPLE OF THE KULIN NATION LIVED. THEY HAD ALLIES AND WERE VERY CLOSE TO THE KULIN NATION. FROM 2005 THE BUNAURONG PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REPRESENTED BY THE BUNWRONG LAND COUAIL. THERE IS A BUNWRONG MARINE NATION PARK.

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

IN 1803 THE BRITISH CONFLICT OCCURRED AT SULLIVAN. THE GUNNAI RAIDS WERE MANY. IN 1834 60 TO 70 BUNWRONG PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A RAID BY GUNNAI. IN 1803 THE LIEUTENANT BRITISH SETTLEMENT WAS NEAR VICTORIA. ONE MAN WANTED ENTERTAINMENT THE ABORIGINES WITH STORIES OF THE ENGLISH. THE BUNWRONG PEOPLE WERE RAIDED FROM 1809 TO 1833 WITH MEN AND WOMENBEING KILLED. A SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC ALSO DESTROYED MANY FOLKS HERE IN IN EARLY 1800'S. THE KULIN TRIBE WAS DECIMATED BY THIS DISEASE. BY 1839 ONLY 83 FOLKS OF THE BUNWRONG GROUP SURVIVED. IN PRECONTACT TIMES THEY HAD 3000 PEOPLE! THESE EPIDEMICS ARE THOUGHT OF AS PART OF THEIR ORIGINAL ORAL TRADITIONS AS MINDY. A RAINBOW SERPENT WAS SENT TO DESTROY PEOPLE FOR BAD DEEDS AND SPREADING DISEASE.

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

THEY HAD SIX SEPARATE CLANS PRIOR TO TO EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT. THE TERRITORY WAS AT THE EASTERN, NORTHERN, AND SOUTHERN SHORES OF IT'S TWO MAINS ISLANDS. IT WAS KNOWN AS THE KULIN CLAN AND IT HAD ABUNDANCE OF FOODS. THE KULIN BELIEVED THAT THOSE OUTSIDE OF THIS COUNTRY WERE REQUIRED TO PARTAKE OF A RITUAL BEFORE ENTERING WITHOUT HARM.

THE BUNWRONG SHARED THE BELIEF SYSTEM AS THE RULIN NATION TERRITORIES BASED AS DREAMTIME. THUS IT WAS BACKED WHEN THEIR ANCESTORS KNOWN AS FIRST PEOPLE TRAVELLED ACROSS THE LAND , AND NAMED AREAS. THEIR ORAL TRADITION WAS BASED ON REVERENCE FOR THE LAND AS A BELIEF IN DREAMTIME. DREAMING WAS BOTH THE ANCIENT ART OF TIME AND CREATION AND PRESENT DAY REALITY. THE BUNWONG HAD TWO MOIETIES - RAVEN AND EAGLEHAWK.

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