Aboriginal 20 events
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 28 abr 2021
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Created byLewis Norton
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The Guugu Yimithirr people and Captain James Cook clash over a dozen sea turtles that Cook's party caught for food. Later, an Elder approaches Cook, offering a broken spear as a gesture of reconciliation and the two parties settle their dispute.Captain Arthur Phillip rasises the union jack at Sydney Cove. Aboriginal resistance flares within a few days of the arrival of the BritishArbanoo is the first Aboriginal to be captured by the englishSmallpox decimates the Eora Aboriginal peopleThe Hawkesbury and Nepean wars between Aboriginal people and the white invaders begins in NSW. Aboriginal people raid the stations or assult the sheep becuase the colonists keep occupying more landPemulwuy spears Phillip's gamekeeper and Phillip orders the first punitive expeditionBennalong and a boy named Yemmerrawanie are taken to EnglandThe Richmond hill battle is considered to be the first ever recorded battle between aboriginal people defending their country against the British.After being shot seriously twice, and surviving both times, Pemulwuy is considered unable to be killed by bulletsBeginning of a six-year period of resistance to white settlement by Aboriginal people in the Hawkesbury and Parramatta areas. Known as the ‘Black Wars’.Governor King orders Aboriginal people gathering around Parramatta, Georges River and Prospect Hill “to be driven back from the settler’s habitation by firing at them”Tasmania is occupied by white people. The Black Wars of Tasmania last until 1830 and claim the lives of 600 Aboriginal people and more than 200 white settlersMost of the Cumberland Plain west of Sydney is occupied by colonists. The Eora people are being dispossessed of their land.William Moree, a lieutenant of the New South Wales Rum Corps, orders to open fire at Risdon Cove, Tasmania, on a group of about 300 Aboriginal people who are probably hunting kangaroos. Between 30 and 60 Aboriginal people are killed. The Lieutenant tries to cover-up the incident, claiming only 3 had been shot. [1]
Hostilities increase – the slaughter of Aboriginal people in Australia has begun. Settlers are authorised to shoot unarmed Aboriginal people.Aboriginal people begin to be moved onto mission stations where they can be taught European beliefs and used as cheap labourGovernor Macquarie opens a school for Aboriginal children at Parramatta called the ‘Native Institution’ to “civilise, educate and foster habits of industry and decency in the Aborigines”. The local Aboriginal people (Koori) remove their children from the school after they realise that its aim is to distance the children from their families and communitiesPassports or certificates are issued to Aboriginal people “who conduct themselves in a suitable manner”, to show they are officially accepted by Europeans.Macquarie announces a set of regulations controlling the movement of Aboriginal people. No Aboriginal person is to appear armed within a mile of any settlement and no more than six Aboriginal people are allowed to ‘lurk or loiter near farms’.In Tasmania, Governor Arthur also proclaims martial law, in effect, a declaration of war. Soldiers have the right to arrest or shoot any Aboriginal person found in the settled district.Períodos
Governor Phillip captures two Aboriginal men - Bennelong and Colebee
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