Gold Rush and Wallaga Lake

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Lynne Thomas shares stories about the gold rush at Wallaga Lake and why Yuin people didn’t mine gold. She talks about the Elders who protected the land and coastline from gold mining for the sake of whale calves and other animals.

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Custodian Name Lynne Thomas
Location Filmed in Tilba Tilba, NSW
Year 2025
Length 0:02:48
Copyright 2025
Category Gold Rush
Topic Employment

Welcome to the Yuin Digital Keeping Place. This website is intended to record and share information on events and people that have impacted on Yuin history, language and lifestyle. Over the coming years, we plan to keep improving and updating this website so that it can include an even wider and richer collection of stories from Yuin Families. We, the Yuin DKP Project Working Group, understand that language is living, and acknowledge that different spellings have been used throughout history. For this project, we've agreed to use the language spellings Dhurga, Djiringandj, and Dhawa. We invite the Yuin and wider community to explore and learn from this Digital Keeping Place.