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The Kurnai nation is composed of five major clans. During the 19th century, many Kurnai people resisted the incursions by early European squatters and subsequent settlers, resulting in a number of deadly confrontations, and massacres of the indigenous inhabitants. There are about 3,000 Kurnai people today, predominantly living in Gippsland.
Kurnai Sketch map of Gippsland - showing approximately the positions of the clans of the Kurnai tribe. The Gunaikurnai or Gunai/Kurnai ( / ˈ ɡ ʌ n aɪ k ɜːr n aɪ / GUN -eye-kur-nye ) language, also spelt Gunnai , Kurnai , Ganai, Gaanay, or Kurnay / ˈ k ɜːr n aɪ / KUR -nye ) is an Australian Aboriginal dialect cluster of the ...
Warrigal Creek is the site of an 1843 massacre of Gunai/Kurnai people in colonial Victoria, during the Australian frontier wars. The creek is on a farm 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Sale , and 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Melbourne , in the South Gippsland area of Victoria , Australia.
The following list of massacres was compiled by settlers from white perpetrator sources such as letters and diaries, and thus does not take into account knowledge passed by word-of-mouth by the Gunai Kurnai people. [6] 1840 - Nuntin- unknown number murdered by Angus McMillan's men
Brataualung language is a variety of what is generally classified as Gunai, which itself is classified by Robert M. W. Dixon as Muk-thang According to Alfred William Howitt, the Brataualung, together with the Braiakaulungl and Tatungalung all spoke dialects of Nulit and Nulit, Muk-thang and the Thangquai spoken by the Krauatungalung were mutually unintelligible.
However, the word was recorded as being used by settlers of Gippsland in the 1840s and 1850s to mean wild Aboriginal or a Gunai/Kurnai person. [6] [7] [8] The traditional land of the Gunai/Kurnai people includes the town of Warragul, then intersects with Boonwurrung territory to the west of the town. [9]
Traralgon is situated on the traditional lands of the Indigenous Gunai/Kurnai nation, which includes the lands of the Braiakaulung clan of Bunjil Kraura, who lived to the north of Latrobe River (called Durt'yowan in Gunai language), as well as the clan of Woollum-Woollum, who lived on the hills to the south of the river and were more affiliated ...
Walkerville is situated on the traditional lands of the Brataualung people, a clan of the Gunai/Kurnai nation. [3] The settlement was originally named Waratah but changed to Walkerville in 1892 to avoid confusion with mail directed to Tasmania. The name honored the recently dead William Froggatt Walker, the former Victorian Customs Commissioner ...