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The Ngarrindjeri were the first South Australian Aboriginal people to work with Europeans in large-scale economic operations, working as farmers, whalers and labourers.{{sfn|Jenkin|1979|p=50}} As early as 1836 it was reliably reported that Aboriginal crews were working at the whaling station at [[Encounter Bay]], and that some boats were worked by entirely Aboriginal crews, and the Ngarrindjeri were employed in the processing of whale oil in exchange for meat, gin and tobacco, and reportedly treated as equals.{{sfn|Russell|2012|p=34}}
The Ngarrindjeri people of the [[Coorong District Council|Coorong region]] stablished in the [[Raukkan, South Australia|Raukkan]] mission for the Aborigines' Friends', created by [[George Taplin]] in 1859. The land was small,{{efn|Originally, the land was only 180 ha, but it was expanded to 688 ha in 1872.}} but the Ngarrindjeri people thrived for a generation by the use of commerce.
Following the [[colonisation of South Australia]] and the encroachment of Europeans into Ngarrindjeri lands, [[Pomberuk]] remained until the 1940s, the last traditional campsite with the remaining Aboriginal occupants forced to leave in 1943 by the new land owners, the [[Hume Pipe Company]], and resettled by the local council and South Australian government.{{sfn|Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority}}
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