Kulin People
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The Kulin People consist of five Aboriginal tribes in central Victoria in the so-called Golden Outback . They lived in the Great Dividing Range and on the banks of the Loddon River and Goulburn River and on the coast.
history
Before the European settlers came to this area in Port Phillip in 1835, they were nomadic hunters and gatherers who divided up the area. Before the European settlement at the Mount William quarry, the Kulin made stone axes from a rock found there, with which they traded in a region that stretched from Adelaide to New South Wales .
The European settlers drove the Aborigines out and forced them into reservations. They then set up Aboriginal mission stations in these areas . A school was later built on Merri Merri Creek for the Aboriginal children.
Aboriginal tribes
The five Kulin tribes are that
- Wurundjeri in the Yarra area
- Boonerwrung on the south coast
- Taungurong on the Goulburn River
- Wathaurung in the west
- Dja Dja Wurrung in the northwest on the Loddon River.
They had cultural and social similarities, initiation and wedding rites as well as totems and they could easily communicate with one another, since their languages differed only slightly from one another.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page about the Kulin ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
