Taungurong
The Taungurong , also called Daung Wurrung , were a tribe of the Aborigines , consisting of nine clans who communicated with the Aboriginal language Daungwurrung . They are part of the indigenous Kulin Alliance of the Aborigines who lived in the southeastern coastal area of Victoria around Port Phillip . The Taungurong were associated with the Woiwurrung- speaking Wurundjeri tribe in the Kulin Alliance. Their land stretched from the north of the Great Dividing Range to the watersheds of the Broken , Delatite , Coliban , Goulburn, and Campaspe Rivers .
Among the white settlers who were taungurong Devil's River Tribe (German: Devil River strain ) or the awesome tribe (German: the furchteinflösende tribe ) called. During the Campaspe Plains massacre , 40 Taungurong were probably killed by whites in May / June 1839 on the land of the Dja Dja Wurrung .
In February 1859 ranged some Elder of Wurundjeri , led by Simon Wonga at the age of 35 years and his brother Tommy Munnering at the age of 25 years with William Thomas , a Protector of Aborigines , an application for land transfer for the taungurong-clans. This Taungurong land was at the confluence of the Acheron River and Goulburn River . The colonial government of Victoria approved this application , but the landowner Hugh Glass intervened, which resulted in inhospitable land with extremely bad weather at Mohican Station being assigned to them. This land was found to be unsuitable for agricultural use and had to be abandoned by the Aborigines.
After three years the Aborigines gave up in March 1863 and the Elders, including Simon Wonga and William Barak, led the 40 Wurundjeri of the Taungurong and Bun warrung clans back to their traditional camp on Badger Creek near Healesville . They occupied this land and claimed it as their property, and later Coranderrk , an Aboriginal missionary station , was built on it.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Richard Broome: Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 , pp. 123–125, Allen & Unwin, 2005, ISBN 1741145694 , ISBN 9781741145694
- ↑ Gary Presland: Aboriginal Melbourne: The Lost Land of the Kulin People , pp 45-46. Harriland Press (1985), Second edition 1994, ISBN 0957700423 .
- ^ Bain Attwood: My Country. A history of the Djadja Wurrung 1837-1864 , pp. 7-9, Monash Publications in History: 25, 1999, ISSN 0818-0032
- ^ A b Isabel Ellender, Peter Christiansen: People of the Merri Merri. The Wurundjeri in Colonial Days , pp. 112-113, Merri Creek Management Committee, 2001 ISBN 0957772807