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A basic map of the Taungurung territory in the context of the other Kulin nations. The Taungurung people, also spelled Daung Wurrung, are Aboriginal people who are one of the Kulin nations in present-day Victoria, Australia. They consist of nine clans whose traditional language is the Taungurung language. [1]
Basic map of the five languages of the Kulin nation. The Kulin nation is an alliance of five Aboriginal nations in the south of Australia - up into the Great Dividing Range and the Loddon and Goulburn River valleys - which shares Culture and Language.
Basic territorial boundaries with other nations. In anthropologist Norman Tindale's estimation – and his data, drawing on anthropologist R. H. Mathews's data which has been challenged [4] – Wurundjeri lands extend over approximately 12,500 km 2 (4,800 sq mi).
A basic map of the Woiwurrung language group in the context of other Kulin nations. Communities consisted of six or more (depending on the extent of the territory) land-owning groups called clans that spoke a related language and were connected through cultural and mutual interests, totems, trading initiatives and marriage ties. Access to land ...
The Nagambie Region is within the traditional lands of the Taungurung people, who are the first people of the rivers, valleys and mountains in this region. The Taungurung people lived according to the natural cycles and rhythms of the land moving through their country seasonally, occupying the more cooler mountain areas in summer and autumn and ...
The Campaspe Plains massacre in 1839 in Central Victoria, Australia was as a reprisal raid against Aboriginal resistance to the invasion and occupation of the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung lands. [1] Charles Hutton took over the Campaspe run, located near the border of Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung, in 1838 following sporadic confrontations.
Woiwurrung was spoken by the Woiwurrung and related peoples in the Yarra River basin, Taungurung by the Taungurung people north of the Great Dividing Range in the Goulburn River Valley around Mansfield, Benalla and Heathcote, and Boonwurrung by the six clans which comprised the Boonwurrung people along the coast from the Werribee River, across ...
Toolangi is the Taungurung word for stringybark. [2] [3] It is believed the area was known as Mt Rose by European settlers up until the 1890s. European settlers first inhabited Toolangi in the 1860s by paling splitters and then timber cutters, who camped deep in the bush.