GUNATARE ARE LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA AND OCCUPY MOST OF GIPPSLAND. THIS TRIBE WAS MOST ON FRIENDLY TERMS WITH NEIGHBORS. THEY RESISTED EUROPEANS AND THEIR SETTLEMENTS. THEY HAVE FIVE CLANS. THEIR CREATION STORIES TELLS THAT KURNAI CAME DOWN THROUGH THE NORTHWEST WITH HIS CANOE ON HIS HEAD. HE WAS A PELICAN. HE CROSSED THE TRIBAL RIVER WHERE PORT ALBERT IS. HE HEARD CONSTANT TAPPING. HE PUT HIS CANOE DOWN AND FOUND A WOMEN IN IT . SHE WAS TUK THE MUSK DUCK. HE WAS VERY HAPPY TO SEE HER AND SHE BECAME THE MOTHER OF THE GUNAI. THE KUNAI RESISTED EUROPEAN INVASION OF THEIR LAND. MANY KUNAI WERE MASSACRED BY EUROPEANS. THEY RESISTED EUROPEAN INVASION OF THEIR LAND.MANY KURNAI WERE MASACRED BY EUROPEANS. ONE FELLOW ESTIMATED ABOUT 500 FOLKS HAD BEEN SHOT.
THE SURVIVORS WERE MOVED TO A MISSION IN 1863 NEAR LAKE WELLINGTON. IT DISCOURAGED THEIR RITUALS AND CULTURE. IN 1908 IT CLOSED AND THE GUNAI MOVED TO LAKE TYERS.
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