Eora
The Eora are an Aboriginal tribe who lived in Sydney Bay . The word Eora comes from the Aboriginal Eora language and means “here” or “in this place”.
colonization
When the British first came to Sydney in January 1788, the Aborigines living on the bay used this word to describe their origins. The British adopted this word and it is still used in part to refer to central Sydney today. The indigenous people who lived in central Sydney were the Cadigal , an Aboriginal clan who speak the Eora language. Their land stretched from Port Jackson to southern Petersham . The British called the Aborigines either Eora People or Cadigal People. The Cadigal lived in the southwest of the Balmain Peninsula, the Wanegal people in the northwest and the Cammeraygal on the north coast of Sydney. Some words from the Eora Aboriginal language are still used today, such as dingo , woomera , wallaby , wombat , waratah, and boobook .
The tribes of the Eora, Dharawal and Darug ate the fruits of the sea and lived with their canoes in the bays and harbors. When the first British fleet of 1,300 convicts, guards and colonizers arrived in Sydney, the Eora tribe consisted of about 1,500 people. Diseases such as smallpox and viral diseases as well as the decline of nature with the consequence of food shortages decimated the tribe of the Eora. It was practically extinct in the 19th century. The language of the Eora has been reconstructed from notes taken by the colonists, although it has not been spoken for more than a hundred years.
Bennelong
One of the most famous historical Aborigines was Bennelong of the Eora people, who mediated between the British colony and the Eora people in the first days of colonization. He lived in a brick hut that stood on the site where the Sydney Opera House is now; the place is now called Bennelong Point. In 1792 he traveled to England, where he met the British King George III. Met on May 24, 1793 and stayed until 1795.