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The Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people (aṉangu) had lived in this area for many thousands of years.Even after the British began to colonise the Australian continent from 1788 onwards, and the colonisation of South Australia from 1836, the aṉangu remained more or less undisturbed for many more years, apart from very occasional encounters with a variety of European explorers.
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After Alexander Forrest had, in 1879, surveyed Gooniyandi lands, and wrote a glowing account of their potential for development, they began to be selected for pastoral leases in the late 1880s, when pastoralists began to "open up" the Fitzroy River area to establish cattle and sheep stations.
The Aboriginal population of Australia is made up of hundreds of peoples or nations, each with their own sacred places, animal totems and other items in the geographic area known as their country, [1] or traditional lands. Sacred sites are places within the landscape that have a special significance under Aboriginal tradition.
Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal peoples around Brisbane and Sunshine Coast [a] Norman Tindale estimated that Wakawaka lands extend over some 4,100 square miles (11,000 km 2), running northwards from Nanango to the area of Mount Perry. Their western extension was at the Boyne River, the upper Burnett River, and Mundubbera.
The Gandangara people, also spelt Gundungara, Gandangarra, Gundungurra and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. Their traditional lands include present day Goulburn , Wollondilly Shire, The Blue Mountains and the Southern Highlands .
Boolardy Station, the site of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, lies on the traditional lands of the Wajarri people. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder office have been working with the Wajarri people to enable the various radio telescope projects located on the MRO to proceed. [2]
The Gadigal, also spelled as Cadigal and Caddiegal, [1] are a group of Aboriginal people whose traditional lands are located in Gadi, on Eora country, [2] [3] the location of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [4] However, since the colonisation of Australia, most Gadigal people have been displaced from their traditional lands.