Pemulwuy

Residence 1

📍Bidjigal Country, Georges River, Botany Bay, NSW, Australia

“I am a Bidjigal man, born on the country of the woods people about the year the newcomers would later count as 1750 — my country running from Botany Bay along the Cooks and Georges rivers, west to the salt-pan creeks. I grew under these trees, on this water, in the law and the seasons my old people had kept for longer than memory. We wanted for nothing the land did not give. Then the ships came, and the smallpox, and the fences, and took what was never theirs. This was my home before it had any of their names. I would not let them have it quietly.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Pemulwuy

Residence 2

📍Toongabbie, Parramatta, NSW 2146, Australia

“At the government farm at Toongabbie, near Parramatta, the strangers broke the ground that fed my people and worked it with chained men. From 1792 I carried the fight to them here and across the Hawkesbury and the Georges — burning crops, taking what we needed, making them afraid to push further into our country. They said a musket ball could not kill me. For ten years I led the resistance from this contested ground until, in 1802, they took my life. But the country remembers, and so do my people.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Pemulwuy