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EVELYN CREEK by Harold J Hunt JP 124283 Descendant of the Maliangaapa People DOB 27.12.1925 Totem. Gnaamba. ( Boney bream fish) [Evelyn Creek runs through Milparinka. It was named by Charles Sturt in 1844 after his brother, Evelyn, a landholder in Victoria. Preservation Creek on which Depot Glen lies, is a tributary of Evelyn Creek. The name "Milparinka" is an Aboriginal word, believed to mean elopement. The story goes that a young couple, each from a different tribe, fell in love and were forced to live away from their families. They camped alongside the waterhole at Milparinka. In the 1880s the same waterhole sustained a community of miners and their families in a desperately dry and difficult landscape. Harold Hunt is the author of several biographical books, including "Memoirs of the Corner Country", the story of his mother May, the last Aboriginal woman born in Milparinka.] |
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Evelyn Creek would not be
known to many people away from the Corner Country of NSW. But it
is the life blood of that area. A gum tree lined creek. Its source
is a number of smaller creeks and gullies beginning south west of
Tibooburra, this state's most western town, and it wends its way down to
the Cobham Lake. The overall length is only about one hundred
kilometres, however the significance of this creek is crucial to the
opening up and prosperity of that part of the country from sheep and
cattle grazing. Prior white settlement it was the main meeting place for the Maliangaapa people and other tribal groups of the lakes between the Paroo River and those from the lakes east of the Flinders Ranges. There are fetures of the Evelyn Creek that are not found in many other parts of the country. As well as the heavily grown gum tree lined banks it contained a wide variety of flora providing sustenance for wild life therefore also providing food for the people. The other major feature is that the creek had deep waterholes at various distances apart which became camping and ceremonial areas for the different tribal groups. Those waterholes provided substance over lengthy dry periods. That particular feature enabled graziers to select the most appropriate places to build their homesteads as can be seen by the property homesteads of Peak Hill, Milring, Coally, One Tree and others further down.
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