Pemulwuy: warrior, freedom fighter, action hero

Pimbloy: native of New Holland in a canoe of that country, 1804,

Pimbloy (Pelmuwuy): native of New Holland in a canoe of that country, 1804. Source: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA, STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Pemulwuy was an Aboriginal man who was in Sydney when the British landed in 1788, and would go on to lead a decade long war of resistance against them.


 

There is only one known historical engraving of the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy.

Depicted sailing in a boat in the late 18th century, he's a well-built and muscular man and his physique matched his apparently formidable nature.

 

Today, all that exists to commemorate Pemulwuy and his plight is one plaque in La Perouse.  But now, following the international success of several Indigenous stories on the silver screen, the life of Pemulwuy is being memorialised through film.

 






 

 





 






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