Topics: Culture
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Before Cook - North Coastal - view
The Guringai (Kuringai) speakers are thought to be the original inhabitants of northern Sydney and the inner eastern harbour regions. Guringai-speaking clans of about 40 to 60 people were made up of smaller extended family groups of perhaps a dozen people.
1775 - South West - view
they ate mangrove (toredo) worms called 'Cah-bro'
1788 - North Coastal - view
The Cannalgal clan (Camaraigal, Ga-mariagal)
are the first Indigenous peoples to meet the English settlers in Sydney Harbour.
The clan are coastal people living between Manly Beach
to Dee Why in the north.
1789 - North West - view
Aborigines harvesting yams, banks that are “ploughed” and other signs of occupancy: the setting of animal traps
1789 - North Coastal - view
In
talking about Arabanoo, Marine Captain Watkin Tench writes “Indeed the
gentleness and humanity of his disposition frequently displayed themselves …
When our children … used to flock around him, he never failed to fondle them.”
(Tench 1996, p. 95)
1790 - North Coastal - view
Phillip
notes “the weather now being very dry, the natives were employed in burning the
grass on the north shore opposite Sydney, in order to catch rats and other
animals, whilst the woman were employed in fishing: this is their constant
practice in dry weather.”
1791 - North West - view
“inland language” is different to the “coastal language”