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A number of groups were reported camped on estates at Mamre, South Creek and Eastern Creek (it is not known if this was near Bungarribee). [1] Although bands of Aboriginal people continued to live around the estates and growing settlements up to the 1840s, by this time there were less than 300 recorded Darug people left, 10% of the 1788 population.
The Dharug nation was divided up into a number of woodland clans who each tended to live in a certain geographic area. This area would also house descendant clans. Each clan typically included 50 to 100 people. According to James Kohen, the clans numbered 15, but more accurate records highlight 29 clans: [7]
Colebee (c.1800 – 1830) was a Boorooberongal man of the Dharug people, an Aboriginal Australian people from present-day New South Wales.Colebee and fellow Dharug man Nurragingy received land grants in recognition of their assistance in guiding British military forces in punitive expeditions against insurgent Gandangara and Darkinjung people in 1816.
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The Bidjigal people were the first to encounter Captain Cook and the First Fleet. [5] There was a strong Aboriginal resistance to colonisation. [ 29 ] There was a period of sustained warfare throughout coastal Sydney, involving the Bidjigal clan at the Sydney basin , from 1788 to 1817. [ 30 ]
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The Dharug National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia.The 14,850-hectare (36,700-acre) national park is situated approximately 81 kilometres (50 mi) north of the Sydney and 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Gosford.
Wangal tribesman, warrior, and diplomat, Bennelong, first captured in November 1789 at the behest of New South Wales Governor Arthur Phillip [citation needed] The Wangal people (a.k.a. Wanngal or Won-gal [1]) are a clan of the Dharug Aboriginal people whose heirs are custodians of the lands and waters of what is now the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, centred around the Municipality of ...