The Hobsons Bay Book Report
The Hobsons Bay website provides links to a short book which outlines the history of the Yalukit Wilum people and highlights the impact colonisation had on their lifestyle and their survival post settlement. The book is called ‘The Yalukit Wilum – The First People of Hobsons Bay’ and it is a short history of the aborigines who lived within the Hobsons Bay region of Melbourne.
Name: Yalukit Wilum – meaning ‘river camo’ or ‘river dwellers’
Dialects: there are three – Daung wurrung, Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung known as the Kulin group of languages
Way of Life: semi-nomadic hunter gatherers.
Diet: Murnong (a small plant with a yellow flower and an underground tuber) was a favoured food. They also hunted kangaroos, possums, kangaroo rats, bandicoots,
Name: Yalukit Wilum – meaning ‘river camo’ or ‘river dwellers’
Dialects: there are three – Daung wurrung, Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung known as the Kulin group of languages
Way of Life: semi-nomadic hunter gatherers.
Diet: Murnong (a small plant with a yellow flower and an underground tuber) was a favoured food. They also hunted kangaroos, possums, kangaroo rats, bandicoots,