Warra.
This larger clan inhabited the area from North Brisbane and along the coastline of Nudgee, Sandgate to Caboolture. In their language the local Turrbal clan called their coastal land “Warra” – “an open sheet of water”. This land we call Shorncliffe, Sandgate and Brighton.
Where is Yuggera country?
The Yuggera language which encompassed a number of dialects was spoken by the traditional owners of the territories from Moreton Bay to the base of the Toowoomba ranges including the city of Brisbane.
Is Brisbane Turrbal or Jagera land?
Turrbal Aboriginal Tribe – Traditional Owners of Brisbane.
What Aboriginal land is Sandgate?
The Turrbal people of North Brisbane were the original owners of the country around the Boondall Wetlands. The suburb now known as Sandgate was originally known as Cabbage Tree Creek. The Turrbal people called the area Warra which means a stretch or expanse of water.
What Aboriginal land is south Brisbane on?
Turrbal
South Brisbane was originally a meeting place for traditional landowners, the Turrbal and Yuggera people. The Yuggera nation encompassed a vast region south west of Brisbane, which included Ipswich.
Where are the Gubbi Gubbi people located?
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.
Is Brisbane Yuggera or Meanjin?
The Turrbal and Jagera people speak Yuggera and their name for Brisbane is Meanjin.
Where are the Turrbal people from?
Brisbane, Queensland
The Turrbal are an Aboriginal Australian people from the region of present-day Brisbane, Queensland. The name primarily referred to the dialect they spoke, the tribe itself being alternatively called Mianjin/Meanjin. Mianjin was the Turrbal word for the central Brisbane area.
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 are Yugambeh people from?
south-east Queensland
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 suburbs are in wurundjeri?
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.
Is Bunurong and Boon Wurrung the same?
Boon wurrung (Bunurong) are a Kulin group from the east of Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Cape Liptrap and surrounding areas. The only known Boon wurrung (Bunurong) apical ancestors with living descendents are believed to be women who were abducted by sealers in the early 18th century.
Why is Brisbane called Meanjin?
To traditional owners, the area is known as Meanjin
Meanjin means ‘place shaped like a spike’. This is a reference to the ‘spike’ of land where the Brisbane central business district (CBD) is now located, shaped by a bend in the Brisbane River.
Where are the Ngarrindjeri people from?
South Australia
Ngarrindjeri is an Aboriginal nation of 18 language groups who occupied, and still inhabit, the Lower Murray, Coorong and Lakes area of South Australia. Their lands and waters extended 30km up the Murray from Lake Alexandrina, the length of the Coorong and the coastal area to Encounter Bay.
What Aboriginal land Am I on app?
The Welcome to Country app helps you understand the local history of Aboriginal people and the traditional custodians of the land you’re currently on. The aim of the app is to acknowledge the 500 nations that existed in Australia before settlement.
Is the Gold Coast bundjalung?
Relative Creative acknowledge that Jellurgal (Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast), where we live and work, is on the unceded sovereign lands of the Yugambeh speaking peoples, part of the Bundjalung Nation. We pay our respects to local Elders and the ancestors.
Is it Kabi Kabi or Gubbi Gubbi?
A: The correct pronunciation regardless of how it is spelt is always Gubbi Gubbi (pronunciation: Gub-bee Gub-bee). Kabi Kabi/ Gabi Gabi is the incorrect spelling and pronunciation of the Gubbi Gubbi language group. Kabi Kabi is the foreigner’s interpretation of the language name of Gubbi Gubbi.
What nation do the Gubbi Gubbi people belong to?
The Gubbi Gubbi people also known as Kabi Kabi are an Aboriginal Australian people native to south-eastern Queensland. They are now classified as one of several Murri language groups in Queensland.
What area is gadigal land?
City of Sydney
The original Aboriginal inhabitants of the City of Sydney local area are the Gadigal people. The territory of the Gadi (gal) people stretched along the southern side of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) from South Head to around what is now known as Petersham.
How do you say hello in Aboriginal in Brisbane?
Galang nguruindhau (Turrbal) & Gurumba bigi (Yuggera)! Or “Hello from Brisbane!”.
What do the Turrbal people call Brisbane?
Meeanjin
Our People
The traditional name of Brisbane is Meeanjin – the place of the blue water lilies.