Wurundjeri Willum Clan

In the Ulladulla area the Budawang Tribe inhabited the Conjola, Lake George to Moruya, the Budawang tribe spoke Dhurga, which is an Aboriginal language spoken from Jervis Bay to Wallaga Lake. The Aboriginal tribal group from Jervis Bay to Twofold Bay was Yuin. Captain Cook first sighted the Budawang Tribe on the shores of Murramarang at Koorbrua Beach in 1770, yet the earliest settlers for the area were in 1828 in the Ulladulla Harbour. (C. Dunn, 2000).

The indigenous cultures of Australia are one of the oldest living cultures in the world. Indigenous groups across Australia have many oral stories about their past, which form part of a great tradition of knowledge. These stories explain the Aboriginal genesis in a different parts of the country and reveal the shaping of a formless land by great ancestors. Aboriginal people of Australia have suffered through many crises, when the British colonised Australia in 1788. Many Aboriginal people from different cultures died at hands of British colonial. There were not a lot of Aboriginal people in Australia in 19th century. Mostly, they inhabit in NSW, Queensland and Victoria. There are many cultures in NSW, one of the oldest culture in Sydney is the Darug, they are the traditional owners of Western and south Western areas of Sydney. The Darug nation is large in size and boasts many clans of Darug people. One of the clans called the Cabrogal. Cabramatta takes its name from the Cabrogal band of the Darug-speaking people that lived around Liverpool and Fairfield when the British first came to Australia.

There were three main languages which also consisted of various dialects. Darug was the largest spoken language. The Gadigal people spoke a dialect of Darug. Dharawal was another language spoken which also consists of various dialects based on regions. Many Indigenous Australians could speak more than one of these languages as Central Sydney was where many tribes would come together, so it was quite common that many tribes or clans would be in this same area at the same time, allowing them to learn the languages of each others tribes.

Describe and explain Australian Indigenous people’s historical and contemporary connections to land and sea and the resources derived from them. How have settler discourses associated with colonization affected these connections to country?

There were many different ways in which Aboriginal people resisted the non-indigenous settlement of Australia. In 1770, James Cook first landed in Botany Bay, which was the home of the Eora People, and claimed the East Coast for Britain.

The deposition of their land, involvement in violent conflict and exposure to new diseases, resulted in the death of a vast number of Indigenous people. For the small population that did survive through this period of time, their lives were irreversibly changed, forever

Archaeologists believe that aboriginals first came to Australia about 45, 000 years ago and were the only population of humans in Australia until the British invasion. There are about 500 different aboriginal groups each with their own language and territory and usually made up of several separate clans. The aboriginals of Australia are marginalised in today society. This marginalisation began right back during the British invasion where they were evicted from their own country, the stolen generation occurred and their health care, education, employment and housing was severely limited. Aboriginals generally live in poor conditions and choose unhealthy lifestyle choices

Australia’s aborigines are one of the oldest ongoing cultures in the world. Their traditions date back up tens of thousands of years. Before European settlement, there were around 600 different aboriginal nations, based on language groups. Southport was part of the territory of the Indigenous people of the Yugambeh language group. Their land stretched south from Beenleigh along the coast to the tweed and inland to the mountains. The language group was composed of a number of subgroups including the Kombumerri saltwater indigenous people of the Gold Coast.

The bus also went through Sydney, home to the Eora people, Wellington, home to the Wiradjuri people, Gulargambone, home to the Wayilwan people, Boggabilla, borders between the homes to the Bigambul and Gamilaraay people, Tenterfield, home to Marbal people, Grafton, boarders between the Bundjaung and Gumbaynggir people, Lismore and Cabbage Tree island, home to Bundjaung people, Bowraville, home of the Gumbaynggir people and the Kempsey community, home to the Dhanggati people. Aboriginal communities lived on the outskirts of towns in reserves, many towns still refusing to let aboriginals in the same area as non-aboriginals in places like pubs, theatres, swimming pools and hospitals. This was seen in various Australian country towns. The designation of areas as ‘black’ was used to reduce white people from experiencing the Aborigines culture. The group held protests in the Returned Services League, the Moree Baths, the Kempsey Baths and the Boraville picture theatre.

The City of Boroondara acknowledges the people of the Kulin Nation as Traditional Owners of the land of Boroondara. Today, two community organisations represent the interests of Indigenous people in Boroondara and the Eastern Metropolitan Region. They are the Wurundjeri Land Tribe and Compensation Cultural Heritage Council Inc. (Wurundjeri Council) and the Inner East Local Indigenous Network (LIN). The Wurundjeri people are recognised as the Traditional Owners of land in the northern area of Boroondara. The Wurundjeri Council represents the Wurundjeri people and is the key contact for activities occurring in the northern area that can only be performed by Traditional Owners. The Inner East LIN is an Indigenous community organisation representing the interests of Indigenous people in Boroondara and the Eastern Metropolitan Region.

Albury Wodonga is a known Aboriginal re settlement area, this was decided around the 1960s or 70’s by the government at that time with the reasoning that in this area Indigenous Australians would have good access to healthcare, employment, education and other services. Albury- Wodonga is home to over 85,000 people and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders make up around 2% of this number (AMS profile, 2011.

Communities of tribes and people occupying the Australian Land before the British Colonization in the early 1800’s. Dark skin appearance and lived among tribes and communities all over Australia. Traditional land owners.

The first name of an Unathi is their family name or a name of their own choosing, while the last name is their clan name. This means, for example, that Dreekus Gnarssis is a member of the Gnarssis Clan, but his family is the name Dreekus. No two family names are the same, but members in a family will often end up with the same names, especially fathers and sons. Daughters keep the name of their family. Once a Unathi reaches adulthood, they may take their own name or keep their family name.

- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples inhabited the land of Australia for many thousands of years

Aborigines are believed to have lived in Australia for between 60,000 and 40,000 years, their early ancestors coming from South-East Asia. Precise population details for the period before European colonisation are unavailable, but it is estimated that there were between 300,000 and 1,000,000 Aborigines in Australia when European settlers first arrived in 1788.