1870
Some title over the land was given to Wiradjuri people as recognition for long occupancy. This title was only for the lifetime of the adults. For every family who received it there were ten who didn't. (1).
1870
15 Bush turkeys reported on Lake Albert. (51).
1870’s
With closer settlement in the Wagga Wagga district following the opening up of squatting runs to selectors, less seasonal work was available to Wiradjuri men. Numbers gradually dwindled, (52).
1870’s
A good many white men lived among the Wiradjuri. They were called “white blackfellows”. (53).
1870’s (Early)
Mary Gilmore as a child played with the Wiradjuri on Houlaghan’s Creek and camped with them on the Murrumbidgee. She was given the name of “Jiemba”, meaning the laughing or evening star, by local Wiradjuri, although another given name meant, “the delicate little white flower. Her father, Donald Campbell, had been made a brother of the local Wiradjuri, whose given name meant, “man who is just and can be trusted.”(53). Mary records the story of Flora from these recollections. (39).
1870’s (Early)
Large emu sanctuary at Eunonyhareenyah (Kurrajong Plain?). With hunters and land selectors, emus reduced to 300 in early 1870’s. Two years later reduced to 100. (53).
1870’s (Early)
Wiradjuri men undermine a river red gum tree at the river (Tarcutta Street) end of Wollundry Lagoon and then use the floodwaters to manoeuvre the tree across the lagoon to close it off for fish management purposes, (53).
1870’s /80’s
Excavations for an extension to an hotel building in the current day (2002) Sturt Mall area, unearths skeletal remains of a baby and mother wrapped in possum skins, (106). Newspaper reports of this incident not located to date.
1872
Jackie, an Indigenous man, probably from Roper River, guided Willie Semple and his wife from the Northern Territory to Berry Jerry Station. Jackie spends the rest of his life on Berry Jerry. Jackie’s method of washing was to jump in the river, soap his clothes while on his body, go for a swim then sit on a log while they dried out. (54).
1874
The Maloga Mission was established on the Murray for the estimated 9000 surviving Aborigines in NSW. (4).
1875
The Wagga Wagga Express claimed that the “extinction of aborigines appears to have proceeded more rapidly here than in most parts of the colony for the appearance of one in the streets is now indeed a rarity”, (52).
1877
Only five Aborigines apply for government blanket issue at Wagga Wagga (52).
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