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People of the Merri Merri : the Wurundjeri in colonial days / Isabel Ellender, Peter Christiansen ; editor, Tony Faithfull.
Publication details: East Brunswick, Vic. : Merri Creek Management Committee, 2001.Description: 133 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0957772807
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Port Phillip Region (Vic.) -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Port Phillip Region (Vic.) -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Merri Creek Valley (Vic.) -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Merri Creek Valley (Vic.) -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Merri Creek Valley -- History
- Wurundjeri (Australian people) -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Port Phillip Region -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Port Phillip Region -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Merri Creek Valley -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 994.51 ELL | Available | 059700 |
Total reserves: 0
Bibliography: p. 127-129.
"This book is for the Wurundjeri-willam, the people who once inhabited the Merri Merry Creek valley, and for the Wurundjeri and wider community of today. It looks at the earliest years of the contact period between Aborigines and Europeans in the Melbourne area. This contact period saw the Wurundjeri-willam resisting, coping with and adapting to a new and alien culture. A degree of mutual respect seems to have existed, at least for a short time, while Aborigines and new settlers took stock of each other's intentions, behaviour and reactions to living in close proximity. It appears that the settlement of the Port Phillip District did not encounter the degree of violence seen elsewhere." -- Back cover
