THE DURUNG PEOPLE ARE A LANGUAGE GROUP CALLED A NATION OF INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS WHO OCCUPIED MODERN SYDNEY. THERE IS SOME DISPUTE AS TO THE EXTENT OF THEIR LAND TO THE OF THEIR LAND. SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE THE COASTAL EORA WERE A SEPARATE TRIBE TO THE TO THE DARUNG. OTHERS THINK THEY MAY BE THE SAME TRIBE. THE TERM EORA MAY BE TO THE DARUNG. OTHERS THINK THEY MAY BE THE SAME TRIBE. THE TERM EORA HAS BEEN PROVEN TO MEAN "PEOPLE OF THE PLACE". THERE WAS CULTURAL DIVIDE BETWEEN THE WESTERN DARUG AND THE COASTAL DARUG THE COASTAL DARUG WERE CANOE BUILDERS AND THEY PRIMARILY ATE SEAFOOD AND SHELLFISH. THEY HUNTED KANGAROOS, AXIS, AND OTHER ANIMALS WITH STONE AXES.
THEY HAD MANY CLANS WHO LIVED IN A CERTAIN AREA. THIS AREA HOUSED DESCENDANT CLANS. EACH CLAN HAD HAD 50 TO 1000 PEOPLE. MEN AND WOMEN MARRIED BETWEEN CLANS AND BECAME INTERRELATED. SMALLPOX DESTROYED 90% OF THE DARUNG POPULATION IN 1789. THEIR NEIGHBORS ALSO GOT THIS DISEASE.
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