How did the indigenous australians feel when the white settlers came?

Answer:
When the Europeans came to Australia on the First Fleet in 1788, they claimed the land as unowned (or terra nullius- land of no-one in Latin), because they thought the Aboriginals were improper when they saw that they didn't live they way that they did ( growing crops and farming land, building houses having a currency etc.).
In the journals of some Europeans that first came to Australia, Captain James Cook was the only one that saw the good in the indigenous Australians. At first, the Aboriginals were scared of the Europeans- they thought that they were devils with all their fancy clothes and harmful nature. Most of the people on the First Fleet described them as savages.

The Europeans took all the land off the Aboriginals within minutes, claiming it as theirs when whereas they had only been there for a couple of minutes, the native Australians had been there for possibly more than 700,000 years before. The Europeans later on shot most of the Aboriginals that lived there because the Aboriginals believed in sharing, taking their cattle and crops- whereas the Europeans believed that people had to get even and pay for everything. They also ruined the indigenous sacred places by chopping down trees and clearing land for houses and other things.

I can imagine that the Aboriginals must have felt pretty bad about this because it was very unfair.

Fortunately, as the years have gone on and on, the white and black Australians have started repairing their relationship (e.g. when Kevin Rudd apologised for taking the Aboriginals' land in 2008).

There are still Aboriginal tribes living in the Aussie bush today but not nearly as many as before 1788.
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