Aboriginal Heritage and relation to Final Model

Aboriginal Heritage

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The Blacktown region

The area comprising the City of Blacktown has a long history - Aborigines belonging to the Darug tribe certainly inhabited the area long before European settlement and archaeological evidence of their settlement has been found along creeks in the area. Europeans on exploratory expeditions to the Hawkesbury and beyond traversed the area and the first European settlement occurred at the base of Prospect Hill in August 1791.

Since that time, the area has changed and developed from a largely rural community. Some traces of the past still exist in areas to the north west, although the plans for development will see drastic changes in the next few years.

Pre - 1788 

The Aboriginal people of the Western Cumberland Plain referred to themselves as the Darug (also spelt as Dharug, Daruk, Dharuk and Dharruk). The three Clans of the Blacktown area included: Gomerigal - South Creek; Wawarawarry - Eastern Creek; and Warmuli - Prospect. The impact of white settlement meant that there was competition for land and resources. While numbers declined there has always been an Aboriginal presence in Blacktown and today, this is reflected in the name of the City and its suburb Dharruk and the fact that Blacktown has the largest Aboriginal population in the state.

source: http://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/Discover_Blacktown/Our_History_Heritage/The_Region/Aboriginal_Heritage

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With this Aboriginal heritage in mind, three negative rectangles (of no particular hierarchy) have been removed from the initial prism to mirror the three aforementioned clans of the Blacktown area.