Modified Trees (Scar Trees)
Modified trees or ‘scar trees’ are trees which have been modified by Aboriginal people for a variety of different uses. Modifications include carved artworks and scars resulting from: The creation of wood or bark...
Koori History - Aboriginal History of South Eastern Australia
Cummeragunja
Cummeragunja Mission Station (also Cumeroogunga) is an Aboriginal reserve situated in Yorta Yorta country on a bend in the Murray River in New South Wales, near the Victorian town of Barmah. The station was...
Johnny Jarrett (Patten)
John Trevor Patten, known professionally as Johnny Jarrett, is an Australian Aboriginal Elder and community leader, former rugby league player and professional boxer. John Patten was born in 1936 to John Thomas Patten and...
Remembering Margaret Tucker (1904 – 1996)
A lifelong civil rights campaigner, Margaret Tucker (nee Clements) was a Yorta Yorta (Dhulinyagan) woman born at Warrangesda Mission on the Murrumbidgee River in NSW in 1904, to parents William and Theresa “Yarmuk” Clements...
Remembering Jack Patten (1905 – 1957)
John Thomas Patten (28 March, 1905 – 12 October, 1957) was an Australian Aboriginal leader, professional boxer, journalist and civil rights activist. Early Life John Thomas Patten was born March 28, 1905, at Cummeragunja,...
1938 Day of Mourning – Aboriginal Civil Rights Protest
In November 1937, William Ferguson the organising secretary and co-founder of the Aborigines Progressive Association of New South Wales travelled to Melbourne to meet with representatives of the Victorian based Australian Aborigines League, to...
