THE WURRING ARE INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN MOUNT EMU CREEK.. THEY HAD ABOUT 12 CLANS.UNDER A MATRILINEAL SYSTEM WITH A DESCENT WITH A DESCENT SYSTEM BASED ON COCKATOO MOIETIES.
THESE DJARGURD PEOPLE WERE HERE FOR 1000'S OF YEARS. THERE ARE MANY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES THAT INCLUDE FISH TRAPS. SURFACE SCATTERS, MIDDEN AND BURIAL SITES.
BY THE TIME THE EUROPEAN SETTEMENTS HAPPENED IN 1830'S THE DJARGURD SUFFERED FROM MASSACRES FROM EUROPEAN SETTLERS. THEY WERE FORCED FROM THEIR LAND AND LEAD TO STARVATION. IN 1839 1 CLAN WAS MASSACRED BY FRED GAYLORD AND OTHERS IN A SITE CALLED MURDERING GULLY.
BY 1565 A MONTH OF THIS WERE FORCED TO RELOCATE. BUT ELDERS REFUSED TO ABANDON THE TRADITIONAL COUNTRY. IN 1883 THEY BUILT A MEMORIAL AND IT IS INSPIRING TO THEM TODAY.
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