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Local Aboriginals of the Buffalo River

Local Aboriginals of the Buffalo River

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Local Aborigines on Buffalo River, 1880s, photographer unknown, circa 1880s, Myrtleford & District Historical Society Collection.

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Migration has shaped and transformed the Myrtleford area for centuries. The original owners of Myrtleford were the Jaitmathang (Ya-itma-thang) people who spoke the now-lost Dhuduroa language. They faced pastoralists and then gold-rush settlers in their country who migrated in the nineteenth century. Here, a family looks out from an encampment on the Buffalo River.

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