Australian aboriginal history

Indigenous Australian captured by British colonists

Arabanoo (c.&#; – )^[1] was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Eora forcibly abducted on New Year's Eve by British colonists who arrived with the First Fleet at Port Jackson.

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His capture was organised to force communication and relations between the Aboriginal people and the British. Arabanoo was the first Aboriginal Australian to live among Europeans.^[2]

Background

Life at the British outpost at Port Jackson was difficult in the first years and relations between the Aboriginal people of the Eora clans and the Europeans were poor.

GovernorArthur Phillip decided that the "state of petty warfare and endless uncertainty" had to end. He decided to kidnap an Aboriginal person, as he explained in a letter to Lord Sydney:"It was absolutely necessary that we should attain their language, or teach them ours that the means of redress might be pointed out to them, if they are injured, and to reconcile th