Archive for the ‘Aboriginal Histories’ Category

Riding with Robinson

/ February 23rd, 2022 / Comments Off on Riding with Robinson

This is a fully annotated version of George Augustus Robinson’s 1840 journal of a two-month trip through the interior of the Port Phillip District. The text was previously published in 1977, in the Records of the Victoria Archaeological Survey series,

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First Residents of Melbourne’s Western Region

/ June 14th, 2011 / Comments Off on First Residents of Melbourne’s Western Region

For thousands of years before Europeans settled on the land now covered by the western region of Melbourne, it was the estate of a number of Koorie clans. This publication looks at the original landscape and examines the social life of local Aboriginal people

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First People

/ June 14th, 2011 / Comments Off on First People

When Europeans first arrived in Victoria, Australia early in the nineteenth century, Aboriginal people had been living there for tens of thousands of years. The clans that lived around Port Phillip Bay and in central Victoria made up the eastern

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