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The Whadjuk formed part of the Noongar language group, with their own distinctive dialect. Culturally they were divided into two matrilineal moieties: . Wardungmat, from wardung (the Australian raven, Corvus coronoides) and mat (lineage; meaning 'stock, family, leg')
The pre-contact Beeliar Aboriginal group spoke the Noongar language, and the geographic nation that the Beeliar people belong within is the Whadjuk nation. [5] [9] Historians and archaeologists have estimated the Noongar peoples to live in the Whadjuk region, including the Beeliar suburb, for "well over 40,000" years. [5]
Noongar groups. The Noongar (/ ˈ n ʊ ŋ ɑːr /, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar / ˈ n j ʊ ŋ ɑːr /, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga [1] / ˈ j ʊ ŋ ɑː /) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.
The Beeliar people were “one of the clans of Whadjuk group of Nyungar”. [5] Beeliar was later found to translate to "river people" as the tribe used to occupy the land nearest to the river, the land we now know as the City of Cockburn is where the Beeliar used to live; they referred to is as Beeliar Boodjar, "boodjar" meaning country.
Wiilman, Whadjuk (Wajuk) and Pinjarup are also usually regarded as dialects of Noongar, although this identification is not completely secure. [ citation needed ] The Koreng (Goreng) people are thought to have spoken a dialect of, or closely related to, Wudjari, in which case their language would have been part of the Noongar subgroup.
Leonard Michael Collard (born 24 December 1959 [3]) is a Noongar elder, professor and Australian Research Council chief investigator at the School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia. [4] Collard is a Whadjuk/Balardong Noongar, the traditional owners of the Perth region of Western Australia. He has a background in literature ...
Weeip was an Aboriginal Australian leader of the Boora clan (Boya Ngura people) of the Whadjuk Noongar people in the 1830s, during the early years of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. [1] [2] [3] His territory extended from the Helena River and upper reaches of the Swan River (modern day Guildford) to the Darling Scarp. [1] [3] [4] [5]
Important place of ceremony and camping for local Noongar people. Yagan Mia Wireless Hill: Also known as Yagan's Lookout. A "home of the long-necked turtle", an important source of food. [4] Bateman: The site of a large dispute with early settlers, in which many Noongar peopled died trying to protect their land. Melville Wetlands