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Wongi People
Wangkatha, otherwise written Wongatha, Wongutha, Wankatja, Wongi or Wangai, is a language and the identity of eight Aboriginal Australian peoples of the Eastern Goldfields region. The Wangkatja language groups cover the following towns: Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Menzies, Leonora and Laverton; these towns encompass the North-eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. Name The term ''/'' derives from a verbal root meaning 'to speak'. The more formal and correct term is either ''Wangkatha'' or ''Wongatha''. Other spellings include ''Wongutha'' and ''Wangkatja''. History The Wongi, being very active in their traditional country, were the first to show European and British explorers their country, notably water and precious minerals in their country. The Wongi showed Irish explorer and discoverer Paddy Hannan his first gold nugget. Being a valuable stone, the Wongi worshipped it due to their traditional Tjukurrpa (Dreaming lore) under their traditional practices and governa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands. The term Indigenous Australians refers to Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders collectively. It is generally used when both groups are included in the topic being addressed. Torres Strait Islanders are ethnically and culturally distinct, despite extensive cultural exchange with some of the Aboriginal groups. The Torres Strait Islands are mostly part of Queensland but have a separate governmental status. Aboriginal Australians comprise many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years. These peoples have a broadly shared, though complex, genetic history, but only in the last 200 years have they been defined and started to self-identify as a single group. Australian Aboriginal identity has cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngadju
The Ngadju are an indigenous Australian people of the Goldfields-Esperance region of the Western Australia. Country Ngadju traditional land took in some , running south from Goddard Creek to Mount Ragged, Israelite Bay and Point Malcolm. The last named area was land they claim in contention with the Nyunga branch of the Wudjari. Their western borders were around Fraser Range. The eastern frontier was in the vicinity of Narethal and Point Culver. Mount Andrew and Balladonia were also part of Ngadju territory. In 2014 and 2017 the Federal Court recognized Ngadju traditional ownership of over 102,000 square kilometres, after a long legal proceeding which began in 1995. The land includes exclusive native title over approximately 45,000 square kilometres, east and west of the town of Norseman. In 2020 the Ngadju Indigenous Protected Area was dedicated on Ngadju land. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Lorna O'Brien
May Lorna O'Brien British Empire Medal, BEM (20 May 1932 – 1 March 2020) was an Australian educator and author. Life and career Born May Lorna Miller of the Wangkatha, Wongatha people, in Laverton, Western Australia, at the age of five she was Stolen Generation, removed to the Mount Margaret Aboriginal Community, Mount Margaret Aboriginal Mission. She later attended Perth Girls School. In 1953, she received her Teacher's Certificate at Claremont Teachers College. She was the first known Aboriginal woman in Western Australia to graduate from a tertiary institution. Her first teaching appointment was back at Mount Margaret. After teaching for 25 years she moved into education policy, working for the Western Australian Department of Education (Western Australia), Ministry of Education and the Aboriginal Education Branch. She retired from her position as Superintendent of Aboriginal Education in 1988. In retirement, O'Brien continued to work for Indigenous literacy and educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Title In Australia
Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights and interests to their land that derive from their traditional laws and customs. The concept recognises that in certain cases there was and is a continued beneficial legal interest in land held by Indigenous peoples which survived the acquisition of radical title to the land by the Crown at the time of sovereignty. Native title can co-exist with non-Aboriginal proprietary rights and in some cases different Aboriginal groups can exercise their native title over the same land. The foundational case for native title in Australia was ''Mabo v Queensland (No 2)'' (1992). One year after the recognition of the legal concept of native title in ''Mabo'', the Keating Government formalised the recognition by legislation with the enactment by the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tjalkadjara
The Tjalkadjara or Tjalkanti were an indigenous Australian tribe of Western Australia. Country The Tjalkadjara's tribal homelands lay northeast of Laverton as far as Lake Throssell. Their confines were in the vicinity of Darlot to the west, and to the north, around Lake Wells. Norman Tindale estimated their tribal lands as once having covered . Their neighbouring tribes were the Pini on their northeastern and northern flank; the Ngaanyatjarra to the northeast; the Mandjindja and the Nangatadjara east-southeast; the Waljen to their south, and the Kuwarra to their west. Resources The water sources available to the Tjalkadjara were scarce and in good part they had to rely on what they could extract from the roots of eucalyptus. They possessed a mine north of Laverton, at Taralguta, which was rich in solid red ochre that was much prized by other neighbouring tribes, and which formed an important part of their trading with others. History The Tjalkadjara were eventually pushed out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koara
The Koara people, more recently spelt ''Kuwarra'', are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the Kuwarra Western Desert region of Western Australia. In its fullest extent it would constitute portions of land in the Pilbara, Mid West, and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. Most of the present-day Kuwarra may be found in Meekatharra, Cue and Wiluna areas, which are in the Mid West region. Country Norman Tindale calculated that the Koara tribal lands embraced roughly , extending westwards from Mount Morgans and Leonora west to Mount Ida, taking in the areas of Lake Barlee, and Sandstone, and its northwestern boundary was west of Sandstone. The northern limits ran to Gidgee, Mount Sir Samuel and Lake Darlot. The eastern frontier lay around Mount Zephyr. Their western lands were contiguous with those of the Watjarri and Badimaya, and on the east and northeast by those of the traditional Ngaanyatjarra, Martu people and Mantjiltjarra. History of contact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pindiini
The Pindiini, also spelt Bindinini, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia. Name The Pitjantjatjara referred to the Pindiini as ''Wonggai'', a term that implies they were given to thievery, ''wonggai'' being a word used to indicate mice pilfering flour. The real Pindiini began to object to this Pitjantjatjara exonym several years later, and asserted that they were to be known by their real endonym, Pindiini. Country The Pindiini's territory lay north of the Nullarbor Plain, as far north as Loonngana. Norman Tindale states that their territory covered some . Their neighbouring tribes, running clockwise from due north, were the Nakako, the Ngalia due east, the Mirning due south, between them and the Great Australian Bight, the Murunitja southeast, followed by the Nangatadjara and the Mandjindja to their northwest. Alternative names * ''Bindinini.'' * ''Bindunda.'' * ''Wonggai.'' * ''Wongaidya.'' * ''Wongaii, Wonkai.'' * ''Wanggada, Wanggaji.'' History of con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngurlutjarra
The Ngurlu, also known as the Ngulutjara or Ngurlutjarra, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia. Country The Ngurlu lands, according to Tindale, extended over roughly from Menzies to Malcolm. Their northwestern frontier ran to Mount Ida. Their eastern limits were around Lake Raeside and Yerilla, and the ephemeral salt lake known as Lake Ballard. The Ngurlu moved about over mugla scrublands as far south as where their natural boundary with the Maduwongga began, as the mulga yields way to mallee Eucalypt country, with its salmon gum bushland. History As colonial intrusions advanced into the general area, whether from gold miners or people who took up large pastoral leases, considerable pressure was put on all tribes and the westward movement of the Waljen and Nangatadjara The Nangatadjara are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia. Country Nangatadjara lands encompassed, according to Tindale, approximately . Their north-northeastern exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waljen
The Waljen are an indigenous people of Western Australia, in the Goldfields-Esperance area. Country The Waljen lands in Norman Tindale's estimation covered roughly , taking in the area of Lake Raeside, and extending from Malcolm, Morgans, Laverton, and Burtville. Their southeastern boundary was around Edjudina Soaks. They were also present around Lake Lightfoot and at Lake Carey. Their eastern extension lay beyond Lake Minigwal. In the latter context, their traditional lore also speaks of an important site, not identified, called ''Winbalj.''. History The Waljen seemed to have shifted southwestward towards the end of the 19th century, and by the 1890s they had reached the area south of Kalgoorlie. Alternative name * ''Koara.'' * ''Wonggai-juŋara.''('aggressive men/usurpers'), an exonym used of them by the Maduwongga The Maduwongga (Martu Wangka) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. Language The language spoken by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maduwongga
The Maduwongga (Martu Wangka) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. Language The language spoken by the Maduwongga was called Kabal. Country In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Maduwongga tribal territory extended over some , ranging westwards from Pinjin on Lake Rebecca as far as Mulline, including the area a few miles south of Menzies, where their borders with the Ngurlu ran, over to Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, Kanowna, Kurnalpi, and Siberia. Ecologically they lived in country marked by mallee Eucalypt species. History According to oral traditions picked up by ethnographers, the Maduwongga may have moved in from an original homeland further east, and displaced the Kalamaia, westwards beyond Bullabulling. Alternative names * ''Jindi, Yindi.'' * ''Maduwonga.'' * ''Kabul.'' * ''Julbaritja'' (Ngurlu exonym An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
