Pemulwuy
Pemulwuy (* 1750 at the Botany Bay ; † 1. June 1802 ) was a tribal leader of the Darug - Aborigines whose tribal area on the Georges River in New South Wales in Australia found. He carried out numerous armed attacks against the colonizers of his ancestral land. He was the first elder of the Aboriginal armed resistance against the British colonizers and was declared a national hero by them.
Life
Little is known about the life of Pemulwuy. He had a son, Tedbury , who also fought against the colonizers and was placed under military arrest under Governor William Bligh in 1808. After several attacks on settlers in 1809, he was shot and died in 1810.
struggle
In December 1790, he killed John McIntyre, an officer of Governor Arthur Phillip , with a spear. A punitive expedition was then put together, but none of the Aborigines could find it.
In 1792 Pemulwuy attacked settlers in Prospect, Toongabbie , Georges River, Parramatta , Brickfield Hill and on the Hawkesbury River and was portrayed as the most active opponent of the European settlers, his raids as a result of lack of food, especially grain, and kidnapping portrayed by Aboriginal children through the colonizers. He fought against the New South Wales Corps , a military force that was supposed to relieve the Navy soldiers of the First Fleet .
The military under Captain Paterson came to Parramatta and was tasked with destroying as many as possible to put an end to the attacks. When Pemulwuy launched another attack on Toongabbie in March 1797, he was seriously wounded in the head and body by seven shotgun pellets and was taken to hospital. After he recovered, he was released. On May 1, 1801, Governor Philip Gidley King offered a reward for his capture or death. He was shot on June 1, 1802, his head cut off, soaked in alcohol and sent to England. However, he was never registered there.
Guerrilla warfare or aboriginal law
The Eora tribe owned 1,800 square kilometers of land in Sydney from the Hawkesbury River to Botany Bay and the Georges River. The colonization of their country by the British has been ongoing since the judgment of Mabo v. Queensland (No. 2) from 1992 viewed as an attack on the land rights of a sovereign tribe.
Although the attacks of Pemulwuy had the characteristics of a guerrilla war , he also wanted to maintain relations with the governor. For him, his attacks were not injustice, but the enforcement of the rights of his tribe , the Eora and the Bidjigal clan. Because of this understanding and the struggle against the first British settlers around Sydney, he was declared by the Aborigines to be their national hero.
A district in Holroyd City , a western district of Sydney, and a park in the Redfern district were named after Pemulwuy . The writer Eric Willmot brought out the novella Pemulwuy - the rainbow warrior about him in 1987 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography
- ↑ Australian Broadcast Company ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2009 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.
- ^ Convict Creations
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pemulwuy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Elder and warrior of the Darug Aboriginal people |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Botany Bay |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1802 |