Kulin People

The Kulin People consist of five Aboriginal tribes in central Victoria in the so-called Golden Outback. They lived in the Great Dividing Range and along the banks of the River Loddon and Goulburn River and on the coast.

History

Before European settlers came to this area to Port Phillip in 1835, they lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers, who divided the area. The Kulin presented before the European settlement on the quarry of Mount William from a rock found there stone axes forth with which they in a region stretching from Adelaide to New South Wales, negotiated.

The European settlers expelled the Aboriginal and pushed them into reserves. Then they built in these areas on Aboriginal mission stations. Later on Merri Merri Creek, a school was built for the children of the Aborigines.

Aboriginal tribes

The five Kulin tribes are the

• Wurundjeri Yarra area
• Boonerwrung on the South Coast
• Taungurong on the Goulburn River
• Wathaurung in the West
• Dja Dja Wurrung in the northwest of the River Loddon.

They had cultural and social similarities, initiation and marriage rites and totems, and they could easily understand each other because their languages ​​differed only slightly from each other.