Famous People
I led the first wars against white settlement in Australia, I fought in combination with my son
Pemulwy
Which wars between Aboriginal people and white invaders start in NSW. Led by Pemulwuy and his son Tedbury, Aboriginal people raid stations or assault sheep and cattle because the growing number of colonists occupied more and more land. Many times they used firesticks to set the bush on fire, destroy buildings, and burn crops. The guerrillia-like wars continue until 1816.
The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars
How many Aboriginal People were estimated to live in Australia at the time of British settlement?
750,000
Explain the relationship between Aboriginal people and the land.
It was their mother, where they came from and where they would return when thy died.
What religion replaced or challenged traditional Aboriginal belief systems?
Christianity
Who am I. I was a member of the Wiradjuri resistance of Bathurst in 1822-26
Windradyne
Is considered to be the first recorded battle between Aboriginal people defending their country against the British.
The Richmond Hill Battle
What percentage of the Sydney Aboriginal population is wiped out by disease in the first two years of British settlement ?
50%
What impact did the introduction of hard footed animals like sheep have on native flora and fauna?
They destroyed native flora and fauna?
What was the term used to describe Aboriginal children taken away from their parents and placed in children's homes where they were made to assimilate?
The Stolen Generation
I declared the doctrine of Terra Nullius in Bathurst in 1835. The effect of this was to delare that Australia was unoccupied at the time of European settlement, taking away Aboriginal ownership and or relationship with the land
NSW Governor Sir Richard Bourke
In 1803 Tasmania is occupied by white people. These wars in Tasmania lasted until 1830 and claim the lives of 600 Aboriginal people and more than 200 white settlers. What wars am I?
The Black Wars
Name three diseases that Aboriginal lacked immunity to?
While the European population had a strong resistance to diseases such as bronchitis, measles, scarlet fever, chicken pox and even the common cold – exposure to these diseases was often fatal to Aboriginal populations
Name one alternative source of accessing food for Aboriginal people who were forced from their land?
Stealing, begging or prostitution
How many Aboriginal languages were estimated to exist in Australia at the time of British settlement?
250
The first Attorney General of NSW, first promotes the idea of an Australian treaty with Aboriginal people in a Submission to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Aborigines in 1837 Who am I?
Saxe Bannister
In 1824 Martial law is proclaimed in the Bathurst area when seven Europeans are killed by Aboriginal people led by Aboriginal man Windradyne, and conflict with them is seen as a serious threat. Soldiers, mounted police, settlers and stockmen frequently attack Aboriginal people. As many as 100 are killed in a massacre at Bathurst. This conflict was known as the
“Bathurst War”.
The period of colonial history when Aboriginal people were placed in Reserves to protect the from European settlement is termed what?
The Protectionist period.
Dispossession led to the original customs and lifestyles of the Aboriginal people in Sydney being broken down very early in European contact as colonisers began to fish, fell trees and shoot kangaroos. What impact did this have on Aboriginal peopel
This pressure on the natural resources resulted in people starving during winter
What creative art forms were used to transmit Aboriginal culture? Name two:
Dance, Song, Art
Governor Arthur Phillip the First Governor of NSW arranged that I was the first Aboriginal man to visit Europe and return. I was born on the south shore of the Parramatta River around 1764. In late November 1789, Governor Arthur Phillip had orders from King George III to use “every possible means” to open dialogue with the natives. He tried to make me like white people. My name was
Bennelong
In 1838 What food stuff was poisoned Reports of poisoning of Aboriginal people on ‘Tarrone’ near Port Fairy, West Melbourne and ‘Kilcoy’ north-west Moreton Bay. This food is poisoned and left in shepherds’ huts on ‘Kilcoy’ in the expectation that Aboriginal people now dispossessed of hunting grounds would take it. I am
Flour
During the period of institutionalisation infectious and respiratory diseases were responsible for over 50% of recorded deaths on 8 separate Aboriginal settlements in Southeast Australia. The major diseases recorded as causes of death were...name two.
were tuberculosis, bronchitis, pneumonia, diarrhoea and dysentery.
What does the term terra nullius mean?
Land with nothing or 'Land that belongs to no-one'.
Name three aspects of Aboriginal culture that were lost through colonisation?
Language. Land, Spirituality, food, trade, migration patterns, marriage