LibGuides: First Australians' experiences of colonisation.: Settlement, Resistance and Conflict

Settlers knew that the lands that they took or travelled through were already occupied by Aboriginal people. Convicts foraging and exploring from the earliest years had already encountered them; these encounters could be violent, brutal and fatal, or they could be friendly. The Cambridge History of Australia, Volume 1: Indigenous and colonial Australia p 106

Attitudes to Sydney's Aboriginal people hardened in the 1820s and 1830s... they were now considered a blight on Sydney... ibid p 118

On Smallpox:

...The effects on First Peoples, who had no immunity to the virus, were catastrophic. Messengers from First Peoples clans travelled to warn their neighbours of this dreadful disease, unknowingly spreading smallpox themselves... Museums Victoria https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/16882

Resources

Pemulwuy

Diseases and health impacts

Frontier wars

Books in the library

Aboriginal people of New SOuth Wales by Australia. Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and ATSIC
Call Number: 305.89 ABL

Publication Date: 1992

Series: Aboriginal Australia
Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory
Call Number: 305.89ABL

Publication Date: 1992

Series: Aboriginal Australia
The striding years: Squatters and selectors in 19th century Australia. by ALan Merritt and Carolyn O'Brien
Call Number: 994,02 MER

ISBN: 0869038494
Significant people in Australia's history: Volume 3 1788 - 1850: Early settlements by Rees Barrett
ISBN: 9781420266184

Publication Date: 994 BAR
Significant people in Australia's history Volume 4 1851 - 1900: Colonial Life by Rees Barrett
Call Number: 994 BAR

ISBN: 9781420266191

Publication Date: 2009
The Other Side of the Frontier by Henry Reynolds
Call Number: 994 REY

ISBN: 0140224750

Publication Date: 1983-02-01
Survival: a history of Aboriginal life in New South Wales. by Nigel Parbury
Call Number: 994.4 PAR

ISBN: 0958597154
Contact: an Australian History by Doug Poad
Call Number: 994 POA

ISBN: 085859563X
Aboriginal heroes of the resistance: from Pemulwuy to Mabo. by Pail W. Newbury
Call Number: 305.89 ABL

ISBN: 0959375376
The First Frontier by Peter Turbet
Call Number: 994.4 TUR

ISBN: 9781921719073

Publication Date: 2011-03-01

This book examines the relationships between two societies in the early years of Australia: the Aboriginal population and the new colonists. The arrival of the First Fleet heralded monumental and often catastrophic changes to the lives of the indigenous peoples living between the Blue Mountains and the sea. As the British settlement spread out from Sydney Cove, the next 28 years saw frequent flare-ups of violence, as disputes over precious resources erupted and the Aboriginal people's oneness with the land was challenged. Aboriginal raids on isolated farms would often be followed by a totally disproportionate reprisal from the military and settlers. However, even during this turmoil, colonists and Aborigines often knew each other well, and trust and friendship remained constant throughout the periods of bloodshed. The First Frontier delves into the background of these people who experienced events - tragic and otherwise - that occurred up until the end of hostilities in the Sydney Region in 1816.