![]() ![]() The house is still there, but the village is gone. "A squatter came along and built his house there. It's a bend in a river and that's where the Wiradjuri all camped," Dr Foley said. The concept of kinship is important to Wiradjuri society and explains migration and marriage movement…" Goonoo Homestead was a sacred area. ![]() "You can see those links the Irish boys obviously picked up and married the Aboriginal women and that's how you've got so many crossed marriages in a lot of our families." "They were being treated by the British as badly as we were, so there was a commonality there," Professor Foley said. ’Intermarriage occurred during this period as pastoralists, convicts and settlers took Aboriginal wives and raised Aboriginal children, which furthered the complex nature of frontier relationships. ![]()
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