DJA DJA WURRUNG IN AUSTRALIA

THE ARE KNOWN AS JAIARA RIVER TRIBE AND LIVED ALONG WATERSHEDSOF LODDON AND AVOCA RIVERS. THEY HAD 16 CLANS. THEY HAD TWO MOITIES THESE FOLKS WERE BOUND BY THEIR SPIRITUAL BELIEF SYSTEM THAT DERIVED FROM DREAMING. THEY HAD TRADE NETWORKS. SMALLPOX THROUGH THIS TRIBE IN 1789 AND 1825, REDUCING THE POPULATION GREATLY. THESE EPEDEMICS WERE ALREADY INCORPORATED INTO THEIR MYTHOLOGY. THERE WAS A GIANT SNAKESENT BY BUNJIL TO BLOW MAGIC DUST. DURING THE 1830'S THE DJA DJA WURRUNG WERE KILLED BY EUROPEANS WHO INVADED THEIR TERRITORY.

APPARENTLY THE TRIBAL WOMEN WERE ABUSED AND RAPED BY SOME SOME OF THE EUROPEAN MEN. THE EUROPEANS MASSACRED THEEUROPEANS MASSACREDFOLKS IN THE 1840'2 AND DROVE OFF THE SHEEP. THIS RESULTED IN CONFLICTS. VERY FEW ABORIGINES BROUGHT THIS PROBLEM TO COURT AS THEY WERE DISMISSED. IN 1839 40 ABORIGINES WERE KILLED. THAT DECIMATED THAT THIS TRIBE AND THE WOMEN
CONTRACTED SYPHILLIS FROM EUROPEAN MEN.THEY HAD RESPIRATOY DISEASES FROM TIME TO TIME.

THE AREA HAD A GOLD RUSH IN 1851 AS THEY HAD 1,000 DJA DJA WURRONG OCCUPYING BARKERS CREEK. MT. ALEXANDER. THE MEN WERE EMPLOYED WITH STOCKING SHEPARDS AND SEASONAL BASIS. MANY ABORIGINES MOVED AWAY FROM THE DIGGINGS TO AVOID PROBLEMS OF ALCOHOLISM, ETC.

IN 1864 THE CORANDERECK SUPERINTENDENT FORCED THEM TO RESETTLE IN CORANDERICK STATION ON THE LAND OF THE WURRENDIERI, THAT WAS ONLY 31 ADULTS AND 7 CHIDREN. THERE WERE 6 GROUPS CALLED CLANS AND THEY CALLED CLANS AND THEY WERE CONNECTED THROUGH CULTURAL AND MUTUAL INTERESTS.

TODAY TRADITIONAL CLAN LOCATIONS LANGUAGES AND BORDERS ARE NO LONGER IN USE. PEOPLE LIVE IN MODERN DAY SOCIETIES. ALTHOUGH THEY PRESERVE MUCH OF THEIR CULTURE.

WHEN FOREIGNERS PASSED THROUGH THE OR WERE INVITED ONTO DJA DJA WUUONG LANDS THEY HAD LIVED A CEREMONY OF TANDERUM. FREEDOM OF THE BUSH WOULD BE PERFORMED TO ALLOW SAFE PASSAGE AND TEMPORARY ACCESS AND USE OF LAND AND RESOURCES OF LAND AND RESOURCES. IT WAS THEIR DIPLOMATIC RITE INVOLVED, THE LAND HOLDERS HOSPITALITY AND EXCHANGE OF GIFTS.

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