Lifestyle

The traditional Eora people were mostly coastal dwellers and lived from the produce of the sea. They were a nomadic tribe. They were experts in close-to-shore navigation which is fishing, cooking and eating in the bays and harbours of their bark canoes. The Eora people did not grow or plant crops; although the women picked herbs which were used in herbal remedies. The Eora people were very spiritual people. They believed that inside everything, no matter what it was, there was a living spirit inside it keeping it in existence and something could only really be gone from the world if the spirit inside was destroyed. They also believed that if land was taken away from them that all the spirits in that land would die.