The history of the Australian Aborigines stretches back millennia. But the idea of a union of tribes was only a recent invention. Before the Koori Union there had only been one attempt to form a union of Aborigine tribes, taking place in 1631, over thirty years before the Koori union was formed. However, this attempt to form a union was almost doomed to fail from the start. The leader of the Pitjantjatjara tribe, the largest Australian Aborigine tribe of the time, had sent out a number of emissaries to request the presence of as many Aborigine tribal leaders as possible. However, only a portion of these emissaries reached their intended targets as many succumbed to disease, exhaustion, starvation, and attacks from Australia's predators. These low survival odds are now understood to be down
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| - The history of the Australian Aborigines stretches back millennia. But the idea of a union of tribes was only a recent invention. Before the Koori Union there had only been one attempt to form a union of Aborigine tribes, taking place in 1631, over thirty years before the Koori union was formed. However, this attempt to form a union was almost doomed to fail from the start. The leader of the Pitjantjatjara tribe, the largest Australian Aborigine tribe of the time, had sent out a number of emissaries to request the presence of as many Aborigine tribal leaders as possible. However, only a portion of these emissaries reached their intended targets as many succumbed to disease, exhaustion, starvation, and attacks from Australia's predators. These low survival odds are now understood to be down
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| - The history of the Australian Aborigines stretches back millennia. But the idea of a union of tribes was only a recent invention. Before the Koori Union there had only been one attempt to form a union of Aborigine tribes, taking place in 1631, over thirty years before the Koori union was formed. However, this attempt to form a union was almost doomed to fail from the start. The leader of the Pitjantjatjara tribe, the largest Australian Aborigine tribe of the time, had sent out a number of emissaries to request the presence of as many Aborigine tribal leaders as possible. However, only a portion of these emissaries reached their intended targets as many succumbed to disease, exhaustion, starvation, and attacks from Australia's predators. These low survival odds are now understood to be down to the huge distances that many of these emissaries had to cover, and the language barriers with local Aborigine tribes preventing them from getting suitable aid for what ailed them. Those that did make it to their destinations were also not all successful. Many failed to relay their leader's message, as they could not communicate with the local tribe, whereas others were met with extreme violence due to some forgotten past conflict. Those tribal leaders that agreed to attend the meeting were also not all capable to do so, as the distance between the chosen meeting place and the tribes were also often vast. Eventually, the tribal leaders who wished to attend and could also attend arrived at the meeting. At this point the leader of the Pitjantjatjara presented the colonists of the former colony of Von Bismark, who were assimilated into the Aboriginal group of Watjarri at this point, to the gathering. These colonists are now known to be the ancestors of the fair skinned Aborigines who told Karmai Allunga the stories of the far away foreign nations and peoples with unbelievable technology, which was the basis for the formation of the Koori Union. The Von Bismark colonists then showed multiple examples of weapons and armour recovered from their former colony. In terms of what weapons and armour was shown, this is unknown. The Von Bismark colonists then went onto explain the dark expansionist aims of the nations to the north, and how it could lead to the persecution and extermination of the Aborigine people. It is known that the tribal leaders in attendance were shocked by this, and believed that a union was the right choice to increase their chances of survival. However, it was an unfortunate realisation that caused this union to never take place. The tribal leaders in attendance had come from various tribes dotted across the continent, with each tribe being some distance from the nearest other tribe in attendance. So when the vote on union came, it was defeated by a slight margin. The tribal leaders returned to their lands and as time went on and no grand enemy appeared, they soon forgot about the danger. To this day Kooris debate what the formation of this union would have meant for the Aborigine people, and whether or not it could have stopped the arrival of the approaching darkness.
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