The history of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia has been dated as existing for 50-70 thousand years before European contact. Aboriginal peoples in Western Australia practiced Oral history, and thus lack considerable documentation of pre-Colonial Australia. The aboriginal history of Western Australia that is included features only information from colonization to present day.
Aborigines in Western Australia were most likely first seen by Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh and his crew when first beginning to explore what would now be Perth in 1696, but contact was not made[1]. The Dutch, due to a dislike of the area, would not further explore. in contact with European colonists in 1829, when the Swan River Colony was founded[2].
- ^ Appleyard, R. T.; Manford, Toby (1979). The Beginning: European Discovery and Early Settlement of Swan River Western Australia. University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 0-85564-146-0.
- ^ "THE SWAN RIVER SETTLEMENT". Western Mail. Western Australia. 25 December 1926. p. 26. Retrieved 8 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.