Following a massacre at what will be named the Convincing Ground in south-west Victoria, the Gunditjmara people fight for their homelands during one of Australia's longest frontier wars.
Tensions had already been growing between settlers at a whaling station at Portland but dramatically escalated when up to 200 members of the Kilcarer Gundidj tribe were massacred during a dispute over a beached whale carcass.
It leads to the Eumeralla war, a conflict that will last two or three decades.
Gunditjmara clans become highly organised in their resistance against those who have occupied their land, launching attacks from the Budj Bim’s stoney terrain.
They raid stations, attack people who were living on significant sites and steal and slaughter sheep.
Mass reprisals from settlers result in hundreds or even thousands of Gunditjmara people being killed.
An estimated 7,000 people Gunditjmara people lived here at the time of European settlement and within the space of about 30 years, only 442 will remain.
By the 1860s, many Aboriginal people across Australia are taken from their ancestral lands around Victoria and moved to reserves or missions, including one at Tae Rak or Lake Condah.