Aboriginal People on the Gold fields
Below are resources you may use to help find out what life was like for Aboriginals during the Gold Rush. You may use books or the Internet in addition to the information below.
Information
During the Gold Rush, Indigenous Australians (Aboriginals) played a pivotal role on the Goldfields. Aboriginals worked on sheep stations, shared their knowledge of the land to hungry diggers, traded items with the miners and some even became members of the Native Police Corps.
Aboriginal people had many economic opportunities presented to them by the miners flooding to the gold diggings. Aboriginal people traded and sold possum skin cloaks, fish, and game (meat) such as possum.
A number of records indicate that Aboriginal people were both discovering and prospecting for gold during the gold rush.
Many miners used Aboriginal bush craft, food and knowledge on the gold fields. Lord Robert Cecil who made a visit to the Kyneton diggings in 1852, recalled how the diggers at Specimen Gully "showed me what the natives call ‘blackfellows’ sugar’. It is a species of manna falling plentifully from the white-gum. It tastes very much like the second layer in a wedding cake". Those who didn’t have tents built "mia mias" or "gunyas" and Aboriginal people were often used by miners as guides to the fields.
The above information was taken from the following references:
· http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/golden-victoria/life-fields/aborigines-gold-rush
· http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?storyid=53
WebsitesYou will find information about Aboriginal people during the Gold Rush by following the below links:
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/goldrush/
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/marvellous/gold/index.asp
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/
http://www.upfromaustralia.com/sovhilgolrus.html
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.html?storyid=110·
http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/golden-victoria/life-fields/aborigines-gold-rush
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?storyid=53
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-gold-rush
Images
You will find images of Aboriginal people and the happenings of Gold Rush by viewing the below:
Below are resources you may use to help find out what life was like for Aboriginals during the Gold Rush. You may use books or the Internet in addition to the information below.
Information
During the Gold Rush, Indigenous Australians (Aboriginals) played a pivotal role on the Goldfields. Aboriginals worked on sheep stations, shared their knowledge of the land to hungry diggers, traded items with the miners and some even became members of the Native Police Corps.
Aboriginal people had many economic opportunities presented to them by the miners flooding to the gold diggings. Aboriginal people traded and sold possum skin cloaks, fish, and game (meat) such as possum.
A number of records indicate that Aboriginal people were both discovering and prospecting for gold during the gold rush.
Many miners used Aboriginal bush craft, food and knowledge on the gold fields. Lord Robert Cecil who made a visit to the Kyneton diggings in 1852, recalled how the diggers at Specimen Gully "showed me what the natives call ‘blackfellows’ sugar’. It is a species of manna falling plentifully from the white-gum. It tastes very much like the second layer in a wedding cake". Those who didn’t have tents built "mia mias" or "gunyas" and Aboriginal people were often used by miners as guides to the fields.
The above information was taken from the following references:
· http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/golden-victoria/life-fields/aborigines-gold-rush
· http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?storyid=53
WebsitesYou will find information about Aboriginal people during the Gold Rush by following the below links:
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/goldrush/
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/marvellous/gold/index.asp
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/
http://www.upfromaustralia.com/sovhilgolrus.html
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.html?storyid=110·
http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/golden-victoria/life-fields/aborigines-gold-rush
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?storyid=53
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-gold-rush
Images
You will find images of Aboriginal people and the happenings of Gold Rush by viewing the below: