What the Colonists Never KnewWhat the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present. Dennis, the grandson of Clarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore from an early age. Through his eyes, we see a Sydney of totemic landscapes resonating with ceremonial sites and ancestral activity, song lines and