Timeline of Indigenous Interaction

  • Arriving--- Europeans regarded Aborigines as “noble savages”

  • Smallpox killed half of indigenous pop around park Jackson

  • Aborigines were extremely fearful of Europeans settles

  • Yagan tribe lived in harmony with the Europeans, who had established a colony on the Swan River

  • The british mistook the Nyungar tradition of burning the land as an act of aggression

  • a Nyungar was shot while taking potatoes from a settler’s garden.

  • yagn approached two shepherds he knew, asking for flour. When his back was turned, one of them, William Keats, shot him.

  • Yagan’s head was sent to England

  • 12 local stockmen were on the hunt around the New South Wales town of Inverell for Indigenous people they suspected had stolen cattle.

  • the Victorian Government set up a body of Native Police, made up of Indigenous troopers under the control of European officers.

  • Kurnai population had reduced from 2.00 to 80.

  • around 40 Indigenous people moved to live on what was then uncleared bushland at Coranderrk.