The Kulin People

Book references

Presland, Gary. Aboriginal Melbourne - The Lost Land of the Kulin People, McPhee Gribble, Ringwood, Victoria, 1994.
This is an excellent account of the devastating effect that the coming of European settlement had on the native peoples in the Melbourne area. It contains many contemporary drawings and photographs.

* Jones, Michael. Prolific in God's Gifts - A Social History of Knox and the Dandenongs, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney, 1983.
Chapter one of this book is devoted to the aborigines.

Boldrewood, Rolf. Old Melbourne Memories, George Robertson and Co, Melbourne, 1884.
This is the story of a young squatter setting off from Melbourne with his herd of cattle in 1840 to make his fortune in the western district of Victoria. He tells of his many encounters with the aborigines.

Bride, Thomas Francis (Ed). Letters from Victorian Pioneers (1898), Currey O'Neil, Melbourne, 1983.
This book is a gold mine of first-hand information about the aborigines written by the very first white settlers to encounter them.

* Winzenreid, Arthur P. The Hills of Home - A Bicentennial History of the Shire of Sherbrooke, 1988.
Chapter 2 is devoted to the aborigines who frequented this area.

Rae-Ellis, V. Black Robinson, Protector of Aborigines, MUP, Melbourne, 1996.
This is a biography of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector of Aborigines, first in Tasmania and later in the Port Phillip District. It includes a section on William Thomas, the Assistant Protector who was responsible for the tribes that frequented the Rowville area. There are copies of portraits of both men.

Clarke, Ian D. The Journals of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, Heritage Matters, Melbourne, 1998.
The diaries of Robinson are reproduced in four volumes with annotations for most days' entries. All of the sketches made by Robinson in his journals are also reproduced.

* Scoresby Historical Resources Centre. Booklet 21 The Wurundjeri Aboriginal Tribe.