Oceania and the Circumpolar Arctic · War

First Fleet, Eora dispossession and resistance

1788-1802 CE for the first settlement and Pemulwuy's documented resistance · Eora Country around Warrane and the Sydney basin

The British penal settlement established at Warrane in 1788 began sustained colonization, land seizure, violence and epidemic disruption; Eora people resisted, negotiated and survived, including organized resistance associated with Pemulwuy from 1792.

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How the setting appeared

Ships, tents, timber buildings and farms spread around a working harbor already structured by Eora camps, paths, fishing grounds and sacred relationships.

Agent citation CIT-NMA-FIRST-FLEETCIT-OA-NMA-PEMULWUYCIT-OA-STATE-LIBRARY-NSW-EORA-RESISTANCE Setting and material context · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Eora families faced food loss, disease and violence while maintaining kinship and Country; convicts, soldiers and officials occupied a coercive colonial settlement.

Agent citation CIT-NMA-FIRST-FLEETCIT-OA-NMA-PEMULWUYCIT-OA-STATE-LIBRARY-NSW-EORA-RESISTANCE Lifeways and community · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Fishing, gathering and land care continued beside convict construction, farming, shipping and military labor.

Agent citation CIT-NMA-FIRST-FLEETCIT-OA-NMA-PEMULWUYCIT-OA-STATE-LIBRARY-NSW-EORA-RESISTANCE Work, tools and exchange · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

Eora law and sacred relationships persisted while the colony imposed British legal authority; organized Christian mission activity developed later, and protected Eora knowledge is not reconstructed here.

Agent citation CIT-NMA-FIRST-FLEETCIT-OA-NMA-PEMULWUYCIT-OA-STATE-LIBRARY-NSW-EORA-RESISTANCE Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

World-atlas stage: Oceanic empires
Region: Oceania · Eora Country around Warrane and the Sydney basin
Languages and scripts: Sydney-region Aboriginal languages, often grouped in historical sources as Dharug or Eora varieties; English; Irish and other languages spoken among transported people
Important people: Pemulwuy; Bennelong; Arabanoo; Eora communities; Arthur Phillip
Events and changes: First Fleet arrival at Warrane in January 1788; 1789 smallpox epidemic, whose source remains debated; Pemulwuy's documented resistance from 1792 to 1802; Expansion of the penal settlement onto Eora Country
Evidence confidence: High for colonial records and consequences; surviving records are uneven and often written by colonizers, so Eora perspectives require Indigenous scholarship and community authority.

Agent citation CIT-NMA-FIRST-FLEETCIT-OA-NMA-PEMULWUYCIT-OA-STATE-LIBRARY-NSW-EORA-RESISTANCE Dates, place, language, people, events and confidence · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

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Agent citation CIT-NMA-FIRST-FLEETCIT-OA-NMA-PEMULWUYCIT-OA-STATE-LIBRARY-NSW-EORA-RESISTANCE Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

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CIT-NMA-FIRST-FLEET

The First Fleet arrives at Sydney Cove

https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/first-fleet-arrives-sydney-cove

National Museum of Australia

CIT-OA-NMA-PEMULWUY

Pemulwuy resists colonists

https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/pemulwuy-resists-colonists

National Museum of Australia

CIT-OA-STATE-LIBRARY-NSW-EORA-RESISTANCE

War and resistance

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/fighting-back/war-and-resistance

State Library of New South Wales

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