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The two Registered Aboriginal Parties representing the two groups were the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation and the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation. However, these borders are still in dispute among several prominent figures and Wurundjeri territory has been claimed to spread much further west and south.
Murnong is a Woiwurrung word for the plant, used by the Wurundjeri people and possibly other clans of the Kulin nation. It has many other names in other Aboriginal Australian languages. [1] Below is a list of the Indigenous names, language groups and locations where the name was recorded. dharaban. Ngunnawal (ACT, NSW) ngampa. Kaurna (Adelaide ...
Sewn and incised possum-skin cloak of Wurundjeri origin (Melbourne Museum). The Woiwurrung tribes would have been aware of the Europeans, through the close relationship to the Boon wurrung people of the coast who came into contact with the Baudin expedition on the French ship Naturaliste during 1801, and then the British settlement at Sullivan Bay in 1803, near modern-day Sorrento, Victoria.
One of the words for "river". Warragul: A loanword originating from Dharug language around Sydney. Usually given as meaning "wild dog", although warragul was recorded as meaning "wild" for anything, including humans. Gippsland settlers used the word in derogatory way to describe Indigenous people. [27] Wonthaggi
Other Woiwurrung clans include the Marin-Bulluk, Kurung-Jang-Bulluk, Wurundjeri-Balluk, Balluk-willam. Wurundjeri is now the common term for descendants of all the Woiwurrung clans. Bunurong (Bun-wurrung): spoken by six clans along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory.
People of the Merri Merri. The Wurundjeri in Colonial Days. East Brunswick, Victoria: Merri Creek Management Committee. ISBN 0-9577728-0-7. OCLC 52505206. Pascoe, Bruce (1997). Wauthaurong Too Bloody Strong: Stories and life journeys of people from Wauthaurong. Apollo Bay, Victoria: Pascoe Publishing. ISBN 094708731-1. OCLC 39078639
This category describes the people, history, mythology and culture of the Indigenous Australian Wurundjeri people from central Victoria, Australia. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wurundjeri .
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