Australian History

2. an older indigenous person highly respected for their knowledge of culture and custom
5. land belonging to the government (the crown)
6. members of a group who wander within a set territory to find food obtained through hunting and gathering
9. an object made by humans,generally one that is ancient
11. a settlement whose ruling authority is linked and controlled by another country
13. places for women in the early phases of colonisation that were workhouses and prisons
15. taking away from someone what they regarded as theirs
16. a land of no owners- "no-mans land"

1. the fleet of 11 ships that arrived in Sydney harbour in 1788 to form a penal colony
3. a document which gave well-behaved convicts the right to operate more or less freely as long as they acted appropriatley
4. The name that early Dutch explorers gave to Australia
7. a convict given to a free settler as a farm and/or domestic labourer
8. a convict pardoned for good behaviour before serving a full term of punishment
10. a set area where many indigenous were sent to live, under the control of missionaries and government authorities
12. decribes a native inhabitant of a particular race- the original known people of a region
14. An area owned by a group of indigenous people, each with their own language, customs and beliefs