{"id":2006,"date":"2017-11-02T04:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T04:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/?page_id=2006"},"modified":"2017-11-02T04:46:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T04:46:42","slug":"european-views-of-indigenous-peoples-at-the-time-of-invasion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/learning-pathways\/invasion-and-the-colonial-frontier-period\/european-views-of-indigenous-peoples-at-the-time-of-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"European Views of Indigenous Peoples at the Time of Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Europeans who came to Australia already had ideas and theories about Indigenous peoples and these often clouded their ability to understand the peoples they met.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

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Wurundjeri people at the signing of Batman’s Treaty, 1835<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In 1770 Captain James Cook landed in Botany Bay, home of the Eora people, and claimed possession of the East Coast of Australia for Britain. According to European international law at the time, there were only three ways that Britain could take possession of another territory:<\/p>\n