Kaurna people.
The City of Salisbury acknowledges that we are meeting on the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land.
What is Kaurna Country?
Kaurna Meyunna are the Aboriginal people of the Adelaide region. Kaurna Meyunna Yerta the Kaurna peoples’ traditional tribal land, or Country, extends from Cape Jervis to the south of Adelaide to Crystal Brook to the north, and from the Mount Lofty Ranges to the coast of Gulf Saint Vincent.
What is the Kaurna totem?
The Port River Tribe’s totem was Kudlyo, the Black Swan. The Kaurna People have a strong spiritual attachment to and partnership with the land, and the rich and diverse eco-zone of the Port Adelaide region prior to European settlement, provided them with food, shelter, and areas of spiritual significance.
How far does Kaurna land extend?
The Kaurna people have lived in the Marion area for many thousands of years. Their land extends from Crystal Brook in the north to Cape Jervis in the south.
What does Kaurna mean in English?
Similarly, the river is named River Torrens/Karrawirra Parri, reflecting the Kaurna name meaning Redgum forest. All 29 parks and significant heritage sites across the city and Park Lands have been assigned a Kaurna name.
Where is wurundjeri Country?
Before European settlement, the Aboriginal people of the Wurundjeri willum clan lived on the land that now forms the City of Whittlesea and the northern suburbs of Melbourne. They lived on the offshoots of the Yarra River – along the Merri, Edgars and Darebin Creeks – the Plenty River and the Maribyrnong River.
What is Yugambeh Country?
The Yugambeh language people are the traditional custodians of the land located in south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales, now within the Logan City, Gold Coast, Scenic Rim, and Tweed City regions whose ancestors all spoke one or more dialects of the Yugambeh Language.
What does Marni mean in Aboriginal?
Kaurna Country, Adelaide Region. Ninna Marni (A Kaurna word for “hello, how are you?”) We would like to Acknowledge that the land we meet on today is the traditional lands for the Kaurna people and that we respect their spiritual relationship with their Country.
How do I know my Aboriginal totem?
Aboriginal people learn about their totem through ceremonies, Dreaming stories and by watching them. Today, we can read their stories and do projects about them. Aboriginal people sing songs and tell stories so that everyone knows about their totem.
Which areas of South Australia are Kaurna land?
The claim covers over 8,000 square kilometres (3,100 sq mi) of land stretching from Cape Jervis to Port Broughton, including the entire Adelaide metropolitan area. The Ramindjeri people contested the southern portion of the original claim.
What is Adelaide called in Kaurna?
The Kaurna translation of tarntanya wama is Adelaide Oval; derived from the word for Adelaide (tarntanya) and the word for plain (wama).
How many Kaurna people are left?
In the 2016 Census, there were 38,117 people in Kaurna. Of these 48.5% were male and 51.5% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.7% of the population.
What does nulla mean in Aboriginal?
A war club
Noun. nulla-nulla (plural nulla-nullas) (Australia) A war club used by Aboriginal Australians quotations ▼
What does Bulla mean in Aboriginal?
two
Bulla bulla was an Aboriginal term meaning either ‘two’ or ‘good’.
What does Monaro mean in Aboriginal?
a high plateau or high plain
The name Monaro has Aboriginal origins, meaning a high plateau or high plain.
How do I acknowledge Wurundjeri country?
Example 2 – I would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people who are the Traditional Custodians of this Land. I would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present of the Kulin Nation and extend that respect to other Indigenous Australians present.
What are the 5 Kulin nations?
About the Kulin Nations
- Boonwurrung (Boon-wur-rung)
- Dja Dja Wurrung (Jar-Jar-Wur-rung)
- Taungurung (Tung-ger-rung)
- Wathaurung (Wath-er-rung)
- Woiwurrung (Woy-wur-rung), commonly known as Wurundjeri.
What is the difference between WOI wurrung and Wurundjeri?
The place we know as Melbourne is part of the country claimed by the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung Nations. The Woi wurrung Nation consists of the land of the Yarra drainage basin. The clans who dwelt along the river near the site of Melbourne are known as the Wurundjeri people.
Where are the Gubbi Gubbi people?
South East Queensland
?The Gubbi Gubbi people are the traditional custodians of the land located in South East Queensland, within the Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast, Noosa and Gympie region.
What land does Yorta Yorta country cover?
Yorta Yorta country radiates out from the Murray River on both sides in all compass directions, roughly from Cohuna in the west to just outside Albury/Wodonga in the east to a northerly point in NSW approximately 20-30 km past Finley and extends south into Victoria just short of Nagambie.
Where is the Kulin nation?
The East Kulin Nation have lived in the area now known as Melbourne, for more than 65,000 years harnessing the rich resources of the Yarra River and surrounding bush lands and ranges.