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The Wiradjuri people () or Wirraayjuurray people () are a group of indigenous people of Australian Aborigines that were united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and survived as skilled hunter – fisher – gatherers in family groups or clans scattered throughout central New South Wales.
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Wiradjuri and people
Anthropologist Norman Tindale suggested the principal group occupying the region were the Ngunnawal people, while the Ngarigo lived immediately to the south of the ACT, The Wandandian to the east, the Walgulu also to the south, Gandangara people to the north, and Wiradjuri to the north west.
The short story " Death in the Dawntime ", originally published in The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives ( Mike Ashley, editor ; 1995 ), is a murder mystery that takes place entirely among the Wiradjuri people before the arrival of Europeans in Australia.
* National Trust pages on the Wiradjuri people
Willandra Creek formed a rough boundary between the Wiradjuri people to the south and the Wongaibon people to the north.
Among the Wiradjuri, an Aboriginal people who traditionally lived in New South Wales, Australia, totem clans are divided among two subgroups and corresponding matrilineal moieties.
Her parents, Kenny Goolagong ( an itinerant sheep shearer ) and Melinda, are members of the Wiradjuri people.
The indigenous people of the district were members of the Burrowmunditory tribe, part of the Wiradjuri people.
The Bathurst area was originally occupied by the Wiradjuri Aboriginal people.
The original inhabitants of the Wagga Wagga region were the Wiradjuri people.
The original Aboriginal inhabitants of the Wagga Wagga region were the Wiradjuri people and the term " Wagga " and derivatives of that word in the Wiradjuri aboriginal language is thought to mean crow.
Before European settlement the Harden area was inhabited by the Wiradjuri people.
Anthropologist Norman Tindale suggested the principal tribe occupying the region were the Ngunnawal people, while the Ngarigo lived immediately to the south of the ACT, The Wandandian to the east, the Walgulu also to the south, Gandangara people to the north, and Wiradjuri to the north west.
The area was originally occupied by the Wiradjuri people.
Evans travelled west until he reached the river known to the local Wiradjuri people as Wambool, today called the Fish River, and followed it downstream until he reached the site of Bathurst.
The area around the present township appears to have been a site of interaction between the Nari-Nari people of the Lower Murrumbidgee and the Wiradjuri who inhabited a vast region in the central-western inland of New South Wales.
The area was occupied by the Wiradjuri people prior to European settlement.
The Lachlan river is within the area occupied by the Wiradjuri people.
Wiradjuri and Wirraayjuurray
The Wiradjuri name for themselves is Wirraaydhuurray ( northern dialect ; pronounced ) or Wirraayjuurray ( southern dialect ; ).
Wiradjuri and are
That the Wiradjuri said wirraay, as opposed to some other word for " no ", was seen as a distinctive feature of their speech, and several other tribes in New South Wales, to the west of the Great Dividing Range, are similarly named after their own words for " no ".
The Wiradjuri are the largest Aboriginal group in New South Wales.
The Wiradjuri are identified as a coherent group as they maintained a cycle of ceremonies that moved in a ring around the whole tribal area.
The Wiradjuri people are the traditional owners of the local area prior to European settlement.
Intensive weekend camps, workshops, and other sessions have seen a growing number of Wiradjuri speakers who are beginning to re-establish the language.
Secondary effects of the cultural use of the Wiradjuri language are being felt within the language group, and beyond.
The traditional owners of Cootamundra are considered to be the Wiradjuri, with the name probably deriving from their word guudhamang for " turtle ".
The Wiradjuri people are being joined in their campaign by various Australian environmentalist groups who formed the Coalition to Protect Lake Cowal initiated by the Rainforest Information Centre and Friends of the Earth Australia.
However, the claim of the nation status is disputed by other Aboriginal Australians, who state that the Ngamberri are a just a small family clan of the Wiradjuri nation.
Wiradjuri and group
On 7 January 1825, near the present site of Tarcutta, they met a group of Wiradjuri Aborigines.
* recognition of the Wiradjuri as a cultural group within the wider society
Wiradjuri and indigenous
The word is most likely derived from the indigenous Wiradjuri term bilabaŋ, which means " a watercourse that runs only after rain " and is derived from " bila ", meaning " river ", and possibly " bong " or " bung ", meaning " dead ".
In Australia, an oxbow lake is called a billabong, derived from Wiradjuri, an indigenous language.
Wiradjuri and Australian
The Wiradjuri language had effectively died out of everyday spoken use, but has recently been reclaimed from early European anthropologist's records and from words contributed by several Wiradjuri families, by elder Stan Grant, a member of the Wiradjuri Elder's Council, and John Rudder Ph. D., who has previously studied Australian Aboriginal languages in Arnhem Land.
* AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database: Wiradjuri with bibliographic links
In Australian Aboriginal mythology Baiame ( Baayami or Baayama ) was the Creator God and Sky Father in the dreaming of several language groups ( e. g. Kamilaroi, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri ), of Indigenous Australians of south-east Australia.
John Rudder, Ph. D., has studied the Australian Aboriginal languages, of Arnhem Land ( Gupapuyngu ) in the Northern Territory and the state of New South Wales ( Wiradjuri ), Australia.
* use of Wiradjuri words in communities, and in Australian usage
Wiradjuri and Aborigines
The original occupants were probably the Wiradjuri Aborigines.
Prior to European settlement the Grenfell area was home to the Wiradjuri Aborigines.
Wiradjuri and were
The Wiradjuri were also known for their handsome possum-skin cloaks stitched together from several possum furs.
Booroogong and garoogong were Wiradjuri words, and carrak was a Jardwadjali term from Victoria.
Prior to European settlement of Australia the region of Blackheath and surrounding areas were thought to be a summer corroberee meeting place for several Aboriginal nations, these being Darug ( East ), Gundungurra ( South ) and Wiradjuri ( West ).
The European settlers were soon in conflict with the Wiradjuri over a range of issues including killing of livestock and animals such as kangaroos and possums which were major food sources for the Wiradjuri.
The Darug were bounded by the Kuringgai to the northeast around Broken Bay, the Darkinjung to the north, the Wiradjuri to the west on the western fringe of the Blue Mountains, the Gandangara to the southwest in the Southern Highlands and the Tharawal to the southeast in the Illawarra area.
In July 2006, the Parkes Shire Library ( central west NSW ) inaugurated its collection of books on Wiradjuri attended by Wiradjuri language students from Primary schools at Forbes, Peak Hill and Central West Christian School, whose teachers were learning from Rudder and Grant.
The original inhabitants of the area were the Wiradjuri people.
The Ngunnawal people were neighbours of the Yuin ( on the coast ), Ngarigo ( who lived south east of Canberra ), Wiradjuri ( to the west ) and Gundungurra ( to the north ) peoples.
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