Coranderrk petition
The Coranderrk Petition , also known as the Coranderrk Letter , is an early example of the Aboriginal struggle for their human and land rights. Coranderrk was an Aboriginal mission station founded in 1863 about 50 kilometers northeast of Melbourne . Coranaderrk was intended to be a protectorate for the indigenous population and, from 1886, for the so-called half-castes to stay. Half-castes were mixed race children of Aborigines and whites who lived in Aboriginal families and were removed from there under legal duress in order to assimilate them into white society . It was the attempt of the British colonial government to let the indigenous population of Australia become extinct.
The petition was sent by the residents of Coranderrk to the British colonial government of Victoria in 1868, under the leadership of William Barak . It was the desire for the Aborigines of the Wurundjeri to continue to live in their ancestral land. The reservation was abolished in 1924 and the Aboriginal community relocated to Lake Tyers in Gippsland .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ museumvictoria.com.au : Corderanderrk Petition , in English, accessed on February 3, 2013