What weapons did the Aboriginal use?

What weapons did the Aboriginal use?

Aboriginal peoples used several different types of weapons including shields (also known as hielaman), spears, spear-throwers, boomerangs and clubs.

What did the Europeans do to the indigenous Australians?

The introduction of new diseases by the colonists had a devastating impact on Indigenous communities. The Europeans brought many diseases with them, including bronchitis, measles, scarlet fever, chicken pox, smallpox, and whooping cough.

What animals did Aboriginal eat?

Common animals that were hunted and eaten by Aboriginals included Kangaroos, Wild Turkeys, Possums, Emus, Anteaters, Lizards and Snakes.

How did Europeans treat aboriginals?

Settlers often killed Aborigines who trespassed onto ‘their’ land. Many Aborigines moved to the towns to try and make a living. Here they suffered discrimination and disease, with alcoholism being a particular problem.

How did the Europeans effect the aboriginals?

European colonisation had a devastating impact on Aboriginal communities and cultures. Cultural practices were denied, and subsequently many were lost. For Aboriginal people, colonisation meant massacre, violence, disease and loss.

What happened to the Eora Nation?

The Sydney natives called the disease that was wiping them out (gai-galla) and what was diagnosed as a smallpox epidemic in April 1789 effectively decimated the Port Jackson tribes. Robert King states that of an estimated 2,000 Eora, half (Bennelong’s contemporary estimate) were decimated by the contagion.

Are there any pure blooded Aboriginal?

Yes there are still some although not many. They are almost extinct. There are 5000 of them left. There are 468000 Aboriginals in total in Australia in which 99 percent of them are mixed blooded and 1 percent of them are full blooded.

Where did the Eora people get their name from?

The ‘Eora people’ was the name given to the coastal Aboriginal people around Sydney. The word Eora simply means ‘here’ or ‘from this place’.

What did William Dawes say about the eoras?

The clever linguist William Dawes recorded ‘Eoora – – – Men, or people’ and coined his own version: ‘eoras’, noting ‘Yenmaou mullnaoul naabaou eéora’, which means, he wrote, ‘In plain English: I will go tomorrow morning to see the people (before spoken of).’

Are there any good spirits in the Eora tribe?

Some of these spirits are good while others are evil. Eora children were warned not to swim in certain areas because of evil spirits. Among the creations that occurred during Dreamtime were spirit children and spirit animals. Every person comes into existence when a spirit child enters a mother’s body.

What are some words from the Eora language?

Some of the words of Aboriginal language still in use today are from the Eora (possibly Tharawal) language and include: dingo= dingu; woomera= wamara; boomerang=combining wamarang and bumarit, two sword-like fighting sticks; corroboree= garabara; wallaby, wombat, waratah, and boobook (owl).