Where Is Bundjalung Country?

New South Wales, Australia.
The Bundjalung people, also spelt Bunjalung, Badjalang and Bandjalang, are Aboriginal Australians who are the original custodians of the northern coastal area of New South Wales, Australia, located approximately 550 kilometres (340 mi) northeast of Sydney, an area that includes the Bundjalung National Park.

Is Byron Bay Bundjalung country?

Byron Bay (Cavenbah) has always been an important meeting place for the Arakwal, neighbouring clans and people of the Bundjalung nation. Our people, together with neighbouring tribes and clans, make up part of the wider Bundjalung Nation.

Where is Bundjalung in Australia?

The Bundjalung Nation (also spelt Bandjalang, Banjalang, bunjulung, bunjalung or Badjelang) has become a general term for the whole language area stretching the far North East Coast of NSW and the Southern Eastern coast of Queensland.

What does the word Bundjalung mean?

‘Bundjalung’ has been used as a general term for the whole language, covering all the different dialects, and also to refer to certain individual dialects.

What Indigenous country is Byron Bay?

The Arakwal people refer to the area of Byron Bay and Broken Head as ‘Cavanbah’, which translates to “meeting place.” Before European settlers arrived, it was a popular location where trade could be carried out “and gossip swapped” between the Arakwal people and neighbouring Bundjalung nation tribes.

Is all of Sydney Gadigal country?

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.

What language do the Bundjalung speak?

Yugambeh–Bundjalung, also known as Bandjalangic, is a branch of the Pama–Nyungan language family, that is spoken in north-eastern New South Wales and South-East Queensland.

Are there any gadigal people left?

However, since colonisation and its subsequent spread, most Gadigal people have been displaced from their traditional lands.
Cadigal.

Are Aborigines African?

They conclude that, like most other living Eurasians, Aborigines descend from a single group of modern humans who swept out of Africa 50,000 to 60,000 years ago and then spread in different directions.

What Aboriginal land is Gadigal?

The Gadigal of the Eora Nation are the traditional custodians of this place we now call Sydney. As a mark of respect to the traditional custodians, our events, official meetings, functions and other special occasions begin with a Welcome to Country or an acknowledgement of Country.

What is the Aboriginal word for white person?

Gubbah
Gubbah. Gubbah, also spelt gubba, is a term used by some Aboriginal people to refer to white people or non-Aboriginal people.

What nation are the Bundjalung people from?

Australia
The Bundjalung people, also spelt Bunjalung, Badjalang and Bandjalang, are Aboriginal Australians who are the original custodians of the northern coastal area of New South Wales, Australia, located approximately 550 kilometres (340 mi) northeast of Sydney, an area that includes the Bundjalung National Park.

What is a Bundjalung woman?

English: Aboriginal woman, dark-skinned woman of any race. Bundjalung: dubay [Hover over to listen]

How many tribes are in the Bundjalung Nation?

The names of the 15 tribal groups comprising the Bundjalung Nation are Arakwal, Banbai, Birbai, Galiabal, Gidabal, Gumbainggeri, Jigara, Jugambal, Jugumbir (Yugembeh), Jungai, Minjungbal, Ngacu, Ngamba, Nyangbal and Widjabal.

Is Bundjalung on the Gold Coast?

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 Ballina Bundjalung Country?

The Ballina Shire local government area falls within a greater geographical area known as the Bundjalung Nation. The Bundjalung peoples are the traditional custodians of this area, including the Ballina Shire.

What suburbs are in gadigal land?

Gadigal land lies south of Port Jackson and stretches from South Head to Petersham with part of the southern boundary lying on the Cooks River. On the western border lies the territory of the Wangal clan, which extends along the southern shore of the Parramatta River to Parramatta.

Is Sydney an Eora or Gadigal?

The City acknowledges the Gadigal of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of this place we now call Sydney. There are about 29 clan groups of the Sydney metropolitan area, referred to collectively as the Eora Nation.

What suburbs are in Eora Nation?

Clans

• Cammeraygal. ( Port Jackson, North Shore, Manly Cove.
• Wanegal. ( South of the Parramatta River.
• Gadigal. ( South side of Port Jackson)
• Walumedigal. (“Snapper fish clan”.
• Burramattagal. (” Eel place clan”= at the source of the Parramatta River)
• Bidjigal. ( Castle Hill)
• Norongeragal. ( locality unknown)
• Borogegal. (

How do you say hello in Bundjalung?

Terms in this set (5)

1. Good afternoon. Yowan Boogle.
2. Goodbye. Nynboo.
3. Good morning. Joobin Jarboo.
4. Hello. Jingiwallah.
5. Thank you. Boogelbah Boogelbah.

How do Aboriginal say hello?

Why not say ‘Hello’ in an Aboriginal Language? Wominjeka means Hello/Welcome in the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people of Kulin Nation – the traditional owners of Melbourne. Yumalundi means Hello in the Ngunnawal language. The Ngunnawal people are the traditional owners of the Canberra region.