Everything about Bunurong totally explained
Bunurong (also spelt
Bunwurrung, Boonwerung, Bunurowrung, Boonoorong and Bururong) is the language and name of the
Bunurong people, an
Australian Aboriginal tribe of six clans along the coast of
Victoria,
Australia. Their territory ranged from the
Werribee River, across the
Mornington Peninsula,
Western Port Bay to
Wilsons Promontory.
They were referred to by Europeans as the
Western Port or
Port Philip tribe and were in alliance with other tribes in the
Kulin nation. The
Yalukit-willam clan occupied the thin coastal strip from Werribee, to Williamstown, around to Mordialloc Creek. The
Mayone-bulluk occupied the area at the top of the Mornington Peninsula and the head of Westernport Bay. The
Ngaruk-Willam occupied from Dandenong across to the Mordialloc area. The
Yallock-Bullock occupied from the Bass River on the eastern side of Westernport Bay. The
Burinyung-Ballak occupied.... The
Yowenjerre occupied the eastern-most side of Bunurong land.
The Bunurong have two totems,
Bunjil (the
Eagle), their creator, and
Waarn (the
Raven), protector of waterways.
Derrimut (
1810c -
28 May,
1864), a Bunurong Elder, informed the early European settlers in October 1835 of an impending attack by clans from the
Woiwurrung group. The colonists armed themselves, and the attack was averted. Benbow and
Billibellary, from the
Wurundjeri, also acted to protect the colonists as part of their duty of hospitality. Derrimut later became very disillusioned and died in the Benevolent Asylum at the age of about 54 years in
1864. A few colonists erected a tombstone to Derrimut in
Melbourne General Cemetery in his honour.
Like the neighboring
Wurundjeri people, European settlement had a devastating effect on the Bunurong. Many died from European diseases, native foods became more scarce as they were forced from their lands for grazing, and birth rates plummeted. Some of the women, like
Louisa Briggs, were kidnapped by whalers and sealers and taken to islands in
Bass Strait to work as slaves.
A few survivors eventually were settled in
1863 at
Coranderrk Aboriginal Station near
Healesville, with people from neighboring tribes, particularly
Wurundjeri. Coranderrk was closed in
1924 and its occupants moved to
Lake Tyers in
Gippsland.
From
2005 the Bunurong people are represented by the
Bunurong Land Council.
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