Wombeetch Puyuun, a unique friendship and drive to recognize a monument erected in his honor
The Wombeetch Puyuun indigenous man, known to local white settlers as Camperdown George, appeared in a courtroom southwest of Victoria in 1877. The charge against him, according to the Hampden Guardian newspaper, was “to be noisy and unpleasant … to have received, from some reckless people, an intoxicating liquor.” Justice of the Peace Peter McArthur …