Coranderrk

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William Barak's tomb in Coranderrk Cemetery

Coranderrk was an Aboriginal mission station that provided shelter for the Wurundjeri after they were expropriated after the arrival of European settlers in Victoria . The mission closed in 1924 and most of the residents went to the Lake Tyer Mission. Five elderly Aborigines stayed there until they died. James Wandin , a later Ngurungaeta (tribal leader), was the last person to be born in Coranderrk Station in 1933 in his grandmother's house, Jemima Wandin.

colonization

In February 1859, some of the Wurundjeri tribal leaders , led by Simon Wonga, turned to the Protector of Aborigines William Thomas to obtain land for the Kulin at the station on the Acheron River and Goulburn River . The first reaction from the government of Victoria was positive, however, after the intervention of Hugh Glass, a large landowner, they had to go to a place at Mohican Station that was unsuitable for agricultural land, so they finally left again.

In March 1863, three years after that event, surviving leaders including Simon Wonga and William Barak , 40 Wurundjeri , Taungurong (from the Goulburn River), and Bunurong Aborigines, were crossing the Black Spur - now a road between Healesville and Marysville - to their traditional campsite on Badger Creek near Healesville and claimed ownership of this site. They sought to have the land officially handed over to them so that they could legally settle there. An area of ​​9.6 km² was handed over on June 30, 1863 and named Coranderrk according to their ideas . This is the name of the Christmas Bush ( Prostanthera lasianthos ), a white flowering summer plant that grows in this area.

The Coranderrk station developed within a few years into a successful business of the Aborigines who wheat , hops and craft products for the growing market manufactured from Melbourne and sold. The farm's products won first prize at the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1872.

Around 1874, the Aboriginal Protection Board tried to undermine the existence and agricultural success of Coranderrk by deporting Aboriginal people. The white people also wanted the mission to be closed because this land was "too valuable" for the Aborigines.

A Royal Commission was formed in 1877 and a Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, which raised the Aboriginal problem by the initiative of the Aboriginal Protection Act of 1886. This meant that the half-castes under the age of 35 (German: half-blood under the age of 35) had to leave the place and thus about 60 residents had to leave Coranderrk in the economic depression of the 1890s. As a result, Corderrk became a no longer viable company, as only 15 able-bodied men were still able to manage the successful hop garden. Half of the land was no longer cultivated in 1893 and when the order to close the Aboriginal station was issued in 1924, there were protests by Wurundjeri Aborigines, who fought as soldiers in World War I and did nothing.

Many Aborigines were deported to Lake Tyers , Gippsland , but some stayed.

In 1920, Sir Colin MacKenzie, a leading medical researcher, leased .32 square kilometers from the Aboriginal Protection Board and began his work of studying Australian fauna . This is why Healesville Sanctuary was born. Coranderrk probably remained unused and in 1950 the land was included in the soldiers' settlement program.

Numerous Aboriginal families remained in the Upper Yarra and the Healesville Aera. In March 1998, part of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was transferred to the Wurundjeri Tribe Land Compensation and Cultural Heritage Council when they took over 0.81 km² of land.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mission Voices, Coranderrk. Koorie Heritage Trust ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abc.net.au archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved November 3, 2008
  2. ↑ Meyer Eidelson: Coranderrk station . In: The Melbourne Dreaming. A Guide to the Aboriginal Places of Melbourne . Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra 1997, ISBN 0-85575-306-4 , pp. 113-114 , reprint 2000 .
  3. ↑ Meyer Eidelson: The Footballer, First league in the. In: Walks in Port Phillip. A guide to the cultural landscapes of a City. ( Memento of October 1, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved November 1, 2008
  4. ^ A b Isabel Ellender, Peter Christiansen: People of the Merri Merri. The Wurundjeri in Colonial Days . Merri Creek Management Committee, 2001, ISBN 0-9577728-0-7 , pp. 112-113 .
  5. ^ Richard Broome: Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 . Allen & Unwin, 2005, ISBN 1-74114-569-4 , pp. 123-125 .
  6. ↑ a b Gary Presland: Aboriginal Melbourne: The Lost Land of the Kulin People . Second ed. Harriland Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9577004-2-3 , pp. 105-107 .
  7. ^ Mission Voices, Coranderrk. Mission History. ( Memento of August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Australian Broadcasting Corporation , accessed November 3, 2008
  8. ↑ Coranderrk, Wurundjeri perspectives, plaque at Healesville Sanctuary., 2008
  9. ^ State Library of Victoria, Coranderrk Mission . Retrieved November 4, 2008