Coranderrk

Coranderrk was an Aboriginal mission station, which provided for the Wurundjeri accommodation available, after they had been dispossessed by the arrival of European settlers in Victoria. The mission was closed in 1924 and most of the residents went to Lake Tyers mission. Five elderly Aborigines remained until her death back there. James Wandin, a later Ngurungaeta ( tribal leader ), was the last person who was born in the Coranderrk station in 1933 in the home of his grandmother, Jemima Wandin.

Colonization

In February 1859, facing some tribal leader of the Wurundjeri, led by Simon Wonga to the Protector of Aborigines, William Thomas, to obtain land for the Kulin at the station at the Acheron River and Goulburn River. The first reaction of the government of Victoria was positive, but they had to after the intervention of Hugh Glass, a landowner, go to a place at the Mohican station, which was unsuitable as agricultural land, so they eventually left him again.

In March 1863, three years after this event, led the surviving leaders, among them Simon Wonga and William Barak, 40 Wurundjeri, Taungurong ( from the Goulburn River) and Bunurong Aborigines over the Black Spur - today a road between Healesville and Marysville - at their trationellen camp at Badger Creek near Healesville and claimed ownership of this place. They were anxious that they were officially handed over the country, so that they could settle there legally. An area of ​​9.6 km ² was passed on June 30, 1863 and named after their performances Coranderrk. This is the name of the Christmas Bush ( Prostanthera lasianthos ), a white flowering summer plant that grows in this area.

The Coranderrk station developed within a few years into a successful business Aboriginal, wheat, hops and craft products manufactured for the growing market of Melbourne and sold .. The products of the farm won the first prize at the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1872.

To 1874, the Aboriginal Protection Board was trying to undermine the existence and success of agricultural Coranderrk by Aboriginal deported. The white population also wanted the mission is closed, because this country " too valuable " is for the Aborigines.

In 1877 a Royal Commission and in 1881 a Parliamentary investigation formed which produced the Aboriginal problem because built on the initiative of the Aborigines Protection Act in 1886. This meant that the half- castes under the age of 35 ( German: Half-Blood under the age of 35) had to leave the place and for about 60 inhabitants Coranderrk had to go to the economic depression of the 1890s. This had the consequence that Corderrk became a no longer viable company since only 15 able-bodied men were fit for use for the management of successful hops garden. Already half of the country in 1893 no longer farmed, and as 1924 came the order to close the Aboriginal station, although there were protests from Wurundjeri Aboriginal people who fought as soldiers in the First World War, which had no effect.

Many Aboriginal people were deported to Lake Tyers in Gippsland, but some remained.

In 1920, leased, Sir Colin MacKenzie, a leading medical researcher, 0.32 square kilometers of the Aboriginal Protection Board and began his work of investigation of Australian fauna. This was the reason why Healesville Sanctuary was born. Coranderrk probably remained unused and in 1950 the country was admitted to the soldier - settlement program.

Many Aboriginal families remained in the Upper Yarra and Healesville in the era. In March 1998, a part of the Coranderrk - Aboriginal station in the Wurundjeri Tribe Compensation and Cultural Heritage Council was transferred, as this 0.81 km ² of land took over.