Today the students of Snowy River Campus went on our Indigenous walk, with some of the local Gunai people. We learnt about the local indigenous peoples past and present history.

We looked at how the Gunai lived before European settlement all the way through the massacres and missions of East Gippsland to now. We also looked at what 'men's business' and 'women's business' entailed. As part of the session looked at the men's work, we made rope in a traditional way using Yellow Stringybark, looked at tools and artefacts and went on a walk to find stones that could be used as tools. After morning tea, we looked at 'woman’s business'. This included basket weaving, eel fishing and the gathering of plants for use as food and medicine. It was a very enjoyable and powerful day. I now have a lot of information for my passport.