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Hi,my name is Poppy. I am a Aboriginal 

person. I live with my family and here's our 

story.

On the 26th of January 1788, I saw eleven ships 

came to our land. There were lots of strange men 

wearing funny hats and funny clothes. They were 

also speaking weird language that I had never heard 

before. After they landed they stacked a weird, 

striped thing with a stick on our land. It had lots of 

colours on it such as blue, red and white. I never saw 

that in my life before.     

I was interested and wanted to find out what 

they are doing on our land so I stepped a bit 

closer to look. Then I heard a yell and all my 

family rushed out of our house and have spears 

in their hands. I was very frightened now and I 

knew what would come next, a war.

The strange men that speak weird language 

had a black banded thing in their hands ready 

to fight. After the war, we lose. Captain Arthur 

Philip took over our land and gave us sheets to 

put on because they were used to see people 

wearing clothes in their country, not like us. He 

told us that if we wash our body more often, 

we will be like them, have clean white skin not 

dirty brown skin.

Then they began to destroy our homes by 

chopping trees to build houses and we had to 

work hard every day to help them but some of 

us were relaxed. Then Benelong went to 

London, England. He thinks that London was 

like another planet because there are lots of 

buildings, houses and churches that he had 

never seen. 

After Arthur Philip died John Hunter took over 

him. Then they made us a promise. The 

promise was that we can continue our cultures 

like before but the promise was broken very 

soon after Benelong went back. When Benelong 

went back to our land he had took some 

clothes with him from England because he was 

used to wear clothes by now but soon he began 

to disagree to what the Governor and his men 

were doing on our land.

So we planned to steal some potatoes from the 

white people because it was so delicious. Plus 

the white people grew them on our land and 

the land belongs to us so that it means those 

potatoes belong to us too. When the white 

people found that we were stealing potatoes 

from them, they were very angry and started to 

kill as many Aboriginal people as they could see 

with according to what they called guns. We 

were scared but we continued fighting.

Most women and children were send to the 

smaller island of Australia such as Flinders 

Island, Kangaroo Island and many other 

smaller islands in Australia. The white people 

were being very mean to us and it looks like 

they will never going to leave Australia for us.

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