THESE FOLKS ARE CALLED WADA WURRUNG QAND ARE INDIGENOUS TRIBE LIVING IN THE AREANEAR MELBOURNE PENNISULA. THEY ARE PART OF THE KULIN ALLIANCE. THEY SPOKE WATHAWRONG, THEY MAY BE CALLED EUROPEANS AS THE BARRABOO. A HEADMAN OR TRIBAL LEADER WAS CALLED AN ARIVEET. ARIVEET HOLD THE SAME TRIBAL AS A NGURUNGAETA.
THEY LIVE IN THE AREA FOR AT LEAST 25,000 YEARS. THEY HAVE RECORDED 140 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES WITH A SIGNIFICANT LEVEL OF ACTIVITY BY THESE PEOPLE. COASTAL CLANS MAY HAVE CONTACTED THE BRITISH WHEN THEY CAMPED IN THIS AREA IN 1802. THEY HAD TWENTY FIVE CLANS. THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT OF WADA WURRUNG BEGAN IN 1835 WITH A RAPID ARRIVAL OF SQUATTERS AROUND THE GEELONG AND WESTWARD. SETTLEMENT WAS MARKED BY RESISTANCE TO THE INVASION OFTEN BY DRIVING OFF OR STEALING SHEEP THAT RESULTED IN THE MASSACRE OF ABORIGINES.
VERY FEW OF THESE REPORTS WERE ACTED UPON TO BRING SETTLERS TO COURT. HISTORIANS NOTE THE PRESSURE ON THE GOLDFIELDS IN 1850. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE IN THE EVENTS OF THE EUREKA REBELLION IN 1854. ABORIGINAL PEOPLE MAY BE RELEVANT TO THIS REBELLION THAT TOOK PLACE IN WATHAWRONGLAND.
EARLY POLICING OF THE GOLDFIELDS WAS DONE BY NATIVE POLICE. THEY ENFORCED A COLLECTION A LICENSE FEE FROM DIGGERS. THE ABORIGINES MAY HAVE CARED FOR SOME BRITISH CHILDREN.
EACH CLAN OWNED ACCESS TO CERTAIN LANDS. THEY WERE CONNECTED THROUGH TRADING INITIATIVES. THEY LET FISH RECOVER IN A RIVER THAT HAD NO FISH. THEY USED OTHER RESOURCES. AS WITH MOST OTHER RESOURCES AND TERRITORIES THE CLAN LOCATIONS AND BORDERS ARE NO LONGER USED.
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