Topics: People: Community leaders: North Coastal
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Dave Watts
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Dennis Foley
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Bowen
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Bob Waterer
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Dennis Foley
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Julie Hendicott
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Uncle Dennis Foley
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Lois Birk
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Caroline Glass-Pattison
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Dennis Foley
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Bruce Lowrie
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Dennis Foley
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Lois Birk
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Dennis Foley
Before Cook - view
Community Elder Lois Birk gives an acknowledgement of country at the Northern Beaches Annual General Meeting of the Aboriginal Education Consultative Group:
We acknowledge that we are on Guringai country at Stoney Range Reserve, Dee Why. We will listen to each other. We walk softly and gently and pay homage to Indigenous people of all nations. We respect the spirits of this place.
1799 - view
Bungaree
is recruited from Broken
Bay by Mathew Flinders to
accompany his voyage of exploration in the Porpoise .
He is probably 18 years old. Flinders writes of him, “His achievements are
many, his character excellent and his conduct on the voyage assisted Flinders
to survive the numerous meetings with many Aboriginal clans”. (Smith 1992)
1816 - view
Macquarie
appoints Bidgee Bidgee “Chief of the Kissing Point Tribe” at Ryde.
1820 - view
The artist draws or records other names of the people in Bungaree’s clan. Boin (Bowen) is Bungaree’s son. His mother is Toura. Bowen’s wife is Maria or Mary,
her father is Jonza and her mother is Nan or Naney. Bowen’s daughters are
Theda, Theela Bowen and his son Mark.
1821 - view
The Governor persuades Bungaree and his
family group to move back to Georges Head.
1823 - view
Bowen
(Bungaree’s son), at Moreton Bay with John Oxley, may be the first Aboriginal
person to make a drawing on paper.