A Bend in the Yarra: A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841-1851The Yarra Bend Park marks one of the most important post-contact places in the Melbourne metropolitan area, and is of great significance to Victorian Aboriginal people, particularly the Wurundjeri Aboriginal community. At this site was located the Merri Creek Aboriginal School, the Merri Creek Protectorate Station, the Native Police Corps Headquarters and associated Aboriginal burials. The confluence of Merri Creek and the Yarra River was a significant place to the geography of local Aboriginal people in the contact era, and was the focus of government and church policies toward Aboriginal people of the entire Port Phillip District of New South Wales. The site was a place for meetings, ceremonies, judicial proceedings, councils and debates for a range of Aboriginal clans, but was also a preferred place of residence. The location of this little settlement gave Aboriginal people from near and far access to the colonial economy and European cultures, at a time when pre-contact life |
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A Bend in the Yarra: A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and ... Ian D. Clark,Toby Heydon No preview available - 2004 |
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Aboriginal encampment According to Thomas Arthur’s Seat Assistant Protector Assistant Protector’s Quarters attendance Billibellary Bolin Boonwurrung clans Bungeleen Central Station ceremonies Chief Protector Clark Collins Street Baptist Colonial confluence of Merri Creek Aboriginal School Creek Protectorate Station Creek–Yarra River confluence Daungwurrung clans December Edward Peacock Francis Edgar Goulburn government reserve groups Heidelberg Road influenza Item 99 June Keenan land Langhorne Library of Victoria Loddon Lonsdale McArthur Merri Creek Aboriginal Merri Creek Protectorate Merri Creek–Yarra River miles mission Narre Narre Warren Native Police Corps ngurungaeta November numbers Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate Plenty River Port Phillip Aboriginal Port Phillip District Port Phillip Gazette Protectorate officials pupils recorded Robinson Jnl school classes schoolmaster September settlement Smyth 1878 Vol Street Baptist Church study area Superintendent Thomas Papers Thomas reported Thomas to Robinson Thomas’s Trobe Picture Collection VPRS 11 Wathawurrung Western Port District William Thomas Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung Woiwurrung clans Worrowen Wurundjeri Wurundjeri-willam Yarra River