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William Dampier wrote that Australia's indigenous people were the miserablest people in the world.
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Europeans held a range of views about Australia.
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Eleven british ships carrying about 1000 people sailed into Port Jackson on Australias East Coast
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Smallpox had killed half the Indigenous people around Port Jackson
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Between 1790 and 1802 Pemulwuy led many attacks against colonial farms and settlements.
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Captain Wakin Tench expressed a much more insightful view on the "noble savages".
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Pemulwuy and his men fought so fiercely in a battle that he almost gained control of the newly settled town of Parramatta.
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Governor King became increasingly frustrated by Pemulwuy. He offered rewards including a free pardon, to early convict who would bring him his head, Pemulwuy was murdered.
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When exploring Lachlan River, John Oxley described how two young Indigenous men reacted to the sight of his party.
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Yagan, lived in harmony with the Europeans who had established a colony on the Swan River.
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Bungaree died, also many argued that Bungaree did what he did because it was the only way to survive, because he supported "brothers" and White "friends." Also there was an opinion of Reverend James Gunther of the aborgines.
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A Nyungar was shot while taking potatoes from a settlers garden.
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Yagan approached two shepards he knew, asking for flour. When his back was turned, one of them, William Keats shot him.
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Yagans head was sent to England. The hair was combed, and black and Red Cockatoo Feathers were tied to the head as decoration.
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12 Local stockmen)11 of whom were ex-convicts) were on the hunt around the NSW town of Inverell for Indigenous people. They headed the nearby myall creek station, whom a stockman, Andrew Eaton tied up the 28 people they found there women. children and a f
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Government Gazette wrote a letter on Black men and imitating white men.
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The bangerang people by the pioneer Edward Curr who settled on the Murray River.
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After 1840, the Kurnai came in increasingly into contact with the european settlers wanting to develop Kurnai traditional lands.
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The Victorian Government set up a body of Native Police made up of Indigenous troopers under the control of european officers.
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There was no European law- enforcement body in Gippsland until 1844.
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Similar forces were set up in Queensland in 1859 and in New South Wales in 1855.
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The kurnai population had reduced from about 2000 (in 1840) to only 80 as a result of settler attacks and massacres.
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Yagans head was exhibited and buried in Everton.
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The smallpox disease was declared eleminate from the world.
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Almost 165 years after Yagans head being sent to England. His head was returned to Australia for a proper burial.
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Judith Wright was a very well known poet and a White Australian who fought passionately for the rights of Indigenous people/