#bunurong

[chillikm]

Here I am fashionably late lmao

Melbourne/BoonWurrung (also known as Bunurong) Miku!

The BoonWurrung people of the Kulin nation are the traditional owners of the areas currently known as port Phillip bay and Melbourne. They’ve been around for about 40 000 years!

Also Kmart, Bunnings, thongs, puffer jackets, sunnies and what we locals call “Melbourne’s bipolar weather” are all staples of Melbournian culture lmao

[samuelhumphreys]

I’ve been bushwalking here almost every week for the past three years and have not known about this place until today. Long Point in Greens Bush is an aboriginal camp. I had read there was a place once called “Blacks Camp” at the head of Burrabong creek and that it had “great archeological potential with a fine example of a camp kitchen.” That’s it? That’s it! That’s all the information I could find about what might be the most culturally important place on the Mornington Peninsula. — The local Bunurong people certainly lived here, they certainly cooked here, they drink from the converging creeks, feasting on kangaroos that were in abundance around the grassy hills here. They carried shellfish here from the two nearby coasts. They built their homes, their shelters, and food stores from trees in this forest. They set fire to trees and grasses here with seasonal knowledge that spanned generations. They weaved their baskets from the grass trees and basket rush here, they carved their spears from casuarina trees here. They did all this. Yet, no “official” land title exists for the Bunurong people. — — #bunurong #country #trees #campkitchen #firesticks #fire #eucalyptus #bush #greensbush #firstnations #morningtonpeninsula https://www.instagram.com/p/CbCKRnRh79r/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Yanna' than ngutha yu' arra' buk, wor ngutha tjumbunna, wunthaggi yu' muleek. To walk lightly, and quietly, brings reward.