Eliza Dunlop's Gibber gunyah 1839
| Australian Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations Archive | Elizabeth Hamilton Dunlop Contents Introduction The Aboriginal Mother 1838 Gibber gunyah 1839 The Eagle Chief 1842 References ------------------- 1. Introduction Elizabeth Hamilton Dunlop was an Irish-born woman who arrived as a free settler in New South Wales, Australia, with a husband and four children during February 1838. The family settled in the Hunter Valley region, north of Sydney, in a property known as Mulla Villa at Wollombi. Her husband was appointed Police Magistrate and Protector of Aborigines. Almost immediately Eliza began reflecting on her new situation through poetry, as she had done before arriving in Australia. At the end of the year she achieved both notoriety and fame when she published a reflection on the Myall Creek massacre of more than 28 Aboriginal people on 10 June.1838. Eliza maintained an interest in local Aboriginal culture and language through the remainder o...
