Aboriginal+Settlements

The Aborigines were the first people that had settled in Port Phillip District. Within the Port Phillip District borders there lived a possible 33 communities speaking ten seperate languages and varoius dialects. The Aboriginal clans would travel across the country finding food, managing resources and taking on traditional spirituality responsibilities. Infomation was found in Imagining Australia, page 19

Aboriginal Settlements received blackets and tobacco for payment of land from the Europeans. Many of the blankets received contained diseases like small pox that were unknown to the Aboriginal People and the new diseases killed many Aboriginal People because they were not immune to these diseases.