INDEX Note, page numbers in italics indicate photographs or artworks. 1967 Referendum xxii, 69, 92 Bora Rings 82 bridges 6–8, 7, 10, 11, 11, 91–2 Aboriginal Advancement League 93 Briggs, Carolyn 105, 111 Aboriginal Church of Christ 67–9 Briggs, Louisa 105, 116 Aboriginal Protection Board 121 Brimbank Park 101–02, 102 Aboriginal Protectorate xvii–xviii, 36, 49, 60–1 Buckkermitterwarrer 130–1 Aboriginal Village Mission 45, 45 Buckley, William xv, 36, 132 Aborigines Advancement League xxii, 69, 93 Buk-ker-tillible 129 Aborigines Day 92 Bullourd 42–3 Aborigines Welfare Board 93 Bundoora Park 76–9 AFL see Australian Football League Bundoora scarred tree 76–7 archaeology 28, 46, 63, 81, 82, 82, 86, 100; Bungarim 89 evidence of occupation xiii, 89, 101–02, 123; Bunjil xv, 10, 10, 31, 86, 113, 128–9, 129; and protection of heritage 16, 33 ancestral creator xiii, 4, 7, 22, 28, 107, 129; artwork 4–11, 129; galleries 12–15, 22–3, 25, in art works 23, 116, 116, 129 58, 77, 111, 124 burials 18–20, 33–4, 53, 70–1, 71, 108, 121; Australian Aborigines League 45, 91–2 Coranderrk Aboriginal Cemetery 49, 87–8, Australian Communist Party 93 88; Old Melbourne Cemetery 18, 20–1, 21, Australian Football League (AFL) 30, 32 21; other sites 33–4, 44, 45, 46, 96, 101–02, 121 Baillie, Helen 45 Burnley Park 47–48 Balayang (bat) 129 Baluk Arts 124 canoe see Koorong Barak, William ii, 6–7, 7, 35, 74, 83, 83, 84; Carlton Gardens Moreton Bay Fig Tree 64, artwork by ii, 13, 88; and Coranderrk 65, 68 Aboriginal Station xx, xxi, 87–8 Carrum see Karrum Karrum Bargo, Bill (Billy) 93 Castan, Ron 14, 16, 68 barraimal (emu) 112 cemeteries burials Barry, Redmond 18, 24–5 see ceremonial sites: Albert Park 106–07; Batman, John 20, 21, 70–1, 89; and Melbourne Treaty xvi, 26, 74–5 Bolin Bolin Billabong 56–7; Chapel Street Bebejern 49, 74 corroborees 44; Como Park 46; Emerald Hill Benbow xix, 70–3, 112, 121 105, 105; Sunbury earth rings 81, 82, 82; Berg, Jim 14, 16, 33 Yarra Bend 53 Beruke (Gellibrand) 108 Chapel Street 44–6, 108 Billibellary (Jaga Jaga, Jika Jika) xix, 24, 26, 26, Collins, David 125 74, 83, 84; relationship with Europeans 26, Colourt see Kullurk 53, 55, 70–1 Como Park 42, 43, 46, 46, 48, 108 Binbeal (rainbow) 7, 129 Coolart Wetlands 130–31 Birrarung see Yarra River Cooper, Lynch 93 Birrarung Marr Park 4, 4–6 Cooper, William xxii, xxii, 88, 91–2, 94, 96 Black Rock Gardens 119, 119 Coopers Settlement 77 Blair, Harold 83 Coranderrk Aboriginal Cemetery 49, 87–8, 88 Boon Wurrung xiii–xiv, 42, 60, 105, 110, 113, Coranderrk Aboriginal Station xx, xxi, 26, 74, 115, 116; clan lands xiv, 41, 103, 109, 115, 83, 87, 87–8; conflict with government 115, 130–1 xx–xxi, 49, 74, 81, 87–8 Boonwurrung balug xiv, 113, 125–6, 129 Cummeragunja Station 69, 87–8, 91, 92 142 INDEX Dandenong Police Paddocks 55, 60–1, 61 Ian Potter Gallery 5, 5, 12–13, 13 Dantum (parrot) 129 Ian Potter Museum of Art 25 Daungwurrung see Taungurong Ice Age, effects of 89, 117 Dendy Street Beach 113, 114, 114 Immigration Museum 5, 9 Derrimut 35, 42–3, 45, 70, 70–1, 71, 108, 112, initiation ceremonies see jibauk 127; relationship with Europeans xvi, 70–1, 121 Jackson, Syd 32 Dights Falls 52–3, 53 Jaga Jaga see Billibellary Dja Dja Wurrung (Djadjawurrung) xiv, 44 James, Glenn 32 Djadjawurrung see Dja Dja Wurrung jibauk (initiation ceremonies) xiv, 56, 82, 83 Djurt-djurt (Nankeen kestrel) 129 Jika Jika see Billibellary Dreaming tracks (songlines) 4, 59, 103 Dunbar, Jimmy 121, 121, 132 Kangerong 130–1 Dunbar, Nancy 121, 121, 132 Karrum Karrum Swamp 120 Dyer, Molly 93 Keilor Man 101–02 Koo-wee-rup Swamp 132 Eel Bridge 37, 37 Koori Club 65, 65, 68 Eel Trap bridge 10 Koori Information Centre 66, 68 eels xv, 38, 112–13; harvesting 4, 6, 37, 37, 39; Koori Kollij 67 and social gatherings 41, 56, 96, 97, 120; Koorie Heritage Trust 14–16, 21, 33, 38 traps for 4, 6, 15, 97–8, 107, 121 Koorong (bark canoe) 50, 50–1, 51, 84–5 Emerald Hill 105, 105 Kooyong Park 46, 48, 108 Euro-yuroke (St Kilda) 107 Kulin xvi–xvii, 41, 75, 86, 121; abductions of 19, 71, 75, 105, 116, 126, 127; activism xviii, Fanny see Planobeena 16, 64–9, 87–8, 91–4, 96, 126; executions of Fawkner, John 70–1, 121 17–18, 20; cultural life xv, xvi, xviii, 38, 39, Federal Council for the Advancement of 84–5, 95–6; and European diseases xiii, xvii, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders 69, 93 26, 53, 110; numbers of xiii, xviii–xx, xxii, fire-stick farming 96 110, 131; length of occupation 89, 101–02, first contact xv, 41, 118, 123 126; relationships with Europeans xvii–xviii, fishing 81, 96–7, 114, 116, 120; traps 53,89 , xx–xxi, 17–18, 70–3, 116; see also willams 97–8, 98; see also eels Kullurk reserve 130–1 Fitzroy Stars Aboriginal Community Youth Club Gymnasium 66, 68 La Trobe, Charles 55, 72–3, 110 Flinders Island 17–18, 19 Lake Como 46, 108 Lake Tyers Mission 87–8 gageed ceremony 53 Langhorne, George 35–8, 45 galleries 12–15, 22–3, 25, 58, 79, 111, 124 Lettsom, Samuel 72–3 Gardiner, Margaret 24 Little Red Bluff 109–10 Gayip 8, 8, 53 Long, Michael 32, 32 Gellibrand (Beruke) 108 Lonsdale, Captain 35 George Wright Hostel 66, 68 lookouts 76, 99, 99–100, 109–10, 117, 117, Government House 48, 108 128, 132 Great Flood 107, 117 Lovett, Ebenezer 93 Green, John xx, 87–8 Grimes, Charles 41, 53 Maloga Mission 87–8 maps 3, City centre and surrounds 2, East 40, Hall Reserve raid 72–3 Inner North 62, Mornington Peninsular 123, Hart, Connie 93 Outer North 80, West 90 Howitt, Alfred 31, 74, 83, 84 Maribyrnong River 89, 95, 98, 99–102 hunting 38, 44, 46, 61, 81, 96, 107, 117 Marin balug clan 82, 89 huts (miams) 26, 95–6, 105, 125–6 Marngrook 30–1, 32 143 INDEX Matilda see Pyterruner Nindeebiya Workshop 66, 68 Maulboyheenner 17, 17–18, 20 Ningerranaro 42–3 Mayune balug xiv, 113, 132 McBryde, Isabel 84, 86 ochre 48, 101, 103, 109–10, 116, 119, 119 meeting places see willams Olga Cohn’s Fairy tree 27 Melbourne Museum 22–3 Onus, Lin 65, 65, 68 Melbourne Treaty (Tanderrum) xvi–xvii, 26, 49, 75; signing of 70–5, 74, 75, 89, 96 Pardeweerap 42–3 Merkel, Ron 14, 16, 68 Pigeon, John, 75 Merri Creek 30, 54–5, 61, 72, 74; as meeting Planobeena (Fanny) 17–19 place 8, 26, 52–3, 63 plants xv, 38, 39, 39, 77, 96, 98, 114, 132; Merri Creek Aboriginal School 26, 52, 52–5 edible xv, 38, 81, 107 miams (huts) 26, 95–6, 105, 125–6 police trackers 77; see also Native Police Corps middens 103, 114, 114, 116, 117; Collins Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate Station settlement 125–6; Dendy Street Beach 60–1 113; Grimes Reserve 95–6; Mordialloc 121; Port Phillip Bay (Nairm) xiii, 103, 117, 120 Mornington Peninsular 123, 125–6; Point Prahran (Pur-ra-ran) 43, 44 Ormond Hill 109–10 Pur-ra-ran see Prahran Mindye (rainbow serpent) 73, 132 Pyterruner (Matilda) xix, 17–19, 127 Mingarerer 42–3 Moogjis 16 quarries 84–5, 99, 99–100, 100 Mordialloc Aboriginal Reserve 71, 120–21, 132 Queen Victoria Markets 18, 20 Mordy Yallock see Mordialloc Queens Bridge 11, 11 Mount Cooper 76–7 Mount William quarry (Wil-im-ee Moor-ring) Rainbow Bridge 7 26, 49, 51, 84–6, 85, 86 reconciliation xxii, 25, 32, 42, 69, 107; and art Murrumwiller (Charles Never) 52 8–9, 22–3 Murrup Barak Institute of Indigenous reserves xviii, xx–xxi, 49, 52–3, 88, 95–6, Development 24, 24, 25 108, 130–31; Dandenong Police Paddocks Museum of Modern Art 58 Reserve 30, 55, 60–1; Hall Reserve 72–3, 73; Museum Victoria 22–3, 33–4 Mordialloc Aboriginal Reserve 44, 71, 120–21, 132; Port Phillip Aboriginal Nairm see Port Phillip Bay Protectorate Station 36, 60–1; see Napoleon, Jack see Tunnerminnerwait also Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, Narre Warren (Nerre Nerre Warren) 54, 55, Cummeragunja, Tromgin 60–1, 130 River Yarra (Rainbow) Pedestrian Bridge 7 National Aborigines and Islanders Day Robertson, George Augustus xix, 35–7, 43–4, Observance Committee (NAIDOC) 92 46; relationship with Kulin xvii–xviii, 17–18, National Day of Mourning xxii, 91–2 19, 95, 127, 130–31 National Gallery of Victoria see Ian Potter Royal Botanic Gardens 29, 35, 35–9, 36, 37, Gallery 45, 108 Native Police Corps 26, 30, 49, 53, 54, 54–5, Russell Cooper, Sarah (Sally) 93 55, 61, 108; activities of 36, 43, 54 Nerre Nerre Minnim 105 Sandy Point see Kullurk Nerre Nerre Warren see Narre Warren Separation Tree 36, 36 Neruknerbook 73 songlines 4, 59, 103 Ngargee (corroborees) 29–30, 38, 44, 48, 105, Stolen Generation 93, 124 105, 108; Ngargee trees 47, 47–8, 106, Sullivans Bay 125–6 106–07 Nicholls, Douglas 65, 67, 69, 69, 91–2 Tadjeri (brush-tailed possum) 129 Nicholls, Gladys 67, 69, 69 Tanderrum see Melbourne Treaty 144 INDEX Taungurong (Daungwurrung) xiv, 44 Wil-im-ee Moor-ring see Mount William quarry Terneet 43–4, 46 wildlife sanctuaries 77, 131 Thara (quail hawk) 129 willams (meeting places) xiv, 1, 6, 28, 43, 89, Thomas, William xviii, xix, xix, 43; relationship 108, 113, 117; Albert Park 105, 105–07; with Kulin xix, 26, 72, 72, 73, 87–8, 110, Bolin Bolin Billabong 56–7; Bundoora Park 130–31; support of Kulin xix, 30–1, 44, 57, 76–7; Collins Settlement 125–6; Dendy 71, 87, 121; writings about Kulin xx, 8, 56, Street Beach 114, 114; Grimes Reserve 95–6; 83, 106–07 Mordialloc Creek 120; Solomon’s Ford 97–8; Thomas, William J 18 Stonnington 42–4; Sunbury earth rings 81–2, time of chaos 105, 115 82; Tromgin 35, 35–9, 36, 37, 45, 108; Yarra Tivoli 43–4 Bend 52–3, 72; Yarra Park 29 tools 28, 38, 46, 51, 51, 58, 100; in William Barak Bridge 6–7, 7 archaeological finds 84, 100–02, 114; Windberry xix, 72, 73 materials used for 25, 38, 76, 84, 97–8, 100, Winmar, Nicky 32, 32 114; see also eels; fish traps; quarries wirrarap (healer) 132 toolmaking xv, 76, 84–5, 100 Woiwurrung