ho1ogram
02-04-2007, 05:25 PM
Not quite Today's news, Saturday's to be exact...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/native-title-win-for-gunditjmara-people/2007/03/30/1174761734730.html
I live on Gurnditjmara land in sth west Victoria, Australia. They received Native Title rights last week over two hundred years after their lands were invaded and stolen, with all the bloodshed and horror that that entails.
Portland was the first white settlement in Victoria. Near the end of the article you will see references to the Eumeralla Wars, which I am pretty sure was Australia's longest running war. Of course you never here about this war of resistance. I only heard about it when I moved here six years ago.
I think it is because of this that they are known as the fighting Gurnditjmara. I'll see if I can gather some info together to post in the history re-written forum.
Expert evidence from anthropologists and archaeologists was given to the court backing up indigenous oral history accounts showing the Gunditjmara people's link with the land had survived European colonisation.
Stone fishing traps and house remains were identified along the coast between Port Fairy and Portland as well as in the bed of Lake Condah.
That history includes the Eumeralla 'wars of resistance' in the 1840s during which the Gunditjmara conducted a guerilla-style campaign against sealers, squatters and the government.
The Gunditjmara used the stony lava flows around Mt Eccles and Mt Napier near the Eumeralla River as a natural barrier against the Europeans and their horses.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/native-title-win-for-gunditjmara-people/2007/03/30/1174761734730.html
I live on Gurnditjmara land in sth west Victoria, Australia. They received Native Title rights last week over two hundred years after their lands were invaded and stolen, with all the bloodshed and horror that that entails.
Portland was the first white settlement in Victoria. Near the end of the article you will see references to the Eumeralla Wars, which I am pretty sure was Australia's longest running war. Of course you never here about this war of resistance. I only heard about it when I moved here six years ago.
I think it is because of this that they are known as the fighting Gurnditjmara. I'll see if I can gather some info together to post in the history re-written forum.
Expert evidence from anthropologists and archaeologists was given to the court backing up indigenous oral history accounts showing the Gunditjmara people's link with the land had survived European colonisation.
Stone fishing traps and house remains were identified along the coast between Port Fairy and Portland as well as in the bed of Lake Condah.
That history includes the Eumeralla 'wars of resistance' in the 1840s during which the Gunditjmara conducted a guerilla-style campaign against sealers, squatters and the government.
The Gunditjmara used the stony lava flows around Mt Eccles and Mt Napier near the Eumeralla River as a natural barrier against the Europeans and their horses.