Taungurong people

The Taungurong, also called Daung Wurrung, were a tribe of Aborigines, the. Consists of nine clans that agreed with the Aboriginesprache Daungwurrung They are part of the indigenous Kulin alliance of Aborigines who lived from Victoria to Port Phillip in the southeastern coastal region. The Taungurong were speaking with the Woiwurrung Wurundjeri tribe of the Kulin alliance connected. Your country stretched from the north of the Great Dividing Range to the watersheds of the rivers Broken, Delatite, Coliban, Goulburn and Campaspe River.

Among the white settlers Taungurong the Devil's River Tribe were ( German: Devils River strain) or the awesome tribe ( German: the furchteinflösende strain) called. During the Campaspe Plains massacre 40 Taungurong believed to have been killed in the May / June 1839 on the land of the Dja Dja Wurrung of whites.

In February 1859 ranged some Wurundjeri Elder, led by Simon Wonga at the age of 35 years and his brother Tommy Munnering at the age of 25 years, William Thomas, a Protector of Aborigines, a request for transfer of land for the Taungurong - clans. This Taungurong land was located at the mouth of the Acheron River and Goulburn River. This application authorizes the colonial government of Victoria, but there was an intervention of the landowner Hugh Glass, which meant that they were assigned to the Mohican Station inhospitable country with extremely bad weather. This country was, as it turned out, for agricultural use was inappropriate and had to be abandoned by Aborigines.

After three years in March 1863, the Aborigines gave up and the Elders, including Simon Wonga and William Barak led the 40 clans of the Wurundjeri Taungurong and Bun warrung on their traditional camp at Badger Creek near Healesville back. This land they occupied and reclaimed it as their property, and later it was Coranderrk, an Aboriginal mission station built.