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The Whadjuk people bore the brunt of the European colonisation, as the cities of Perth and Fremantle were built in their territory. No doubt Whadjuk people had been familiar with Dutch explorers like Vlamingh, and the occasional visit of whalers to the coast, before the arrival of settlers under the command of Governor James Stirling.
The Mooro are a Nyungar Aboriginal clan, a subgroup of the Whadjuk. Their territory stretches from the Swan River in Perth north to the Moore River beyond the northern limits of metropolitan Perth and east to Ellen Brook. [1] Evidence of Aboriginal occupation of the Swan Coastal Plain extends back more than 40,000 years. [2]
Anjea, fertility goddess or spirit, in whom people's souls reside between their incarnations; Gaiya, giant devil dingo of lower Cape York Peninsula; Dhakhan, ancestral god of the Kabi
The Noongar people occupied and maintained the Mediterranean climate lands of the south-west ecoregion of Western Australia, and made sustainable use of seven biogeographic regions of their territory, namely: [citation needed] Geraldton Sandplains – Amangu and Yued; Swan Coastal Plain – Yued, Whadjuk, Binjareb and Wardandi
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]
Yellagonga (d. 1843) was a leader of the Whadjuk Noongar on the north side of the Swan River. Colonists saw Yellagonga as the owner of this area. However, land rights were also traced through women of the group. Yellagonga could hunt on wetlands north of Perth because of his wife Yingani's connections to that country. [1] [2]
The border delimiting Western Australia from South Australia and the Northern Territory was drawn by the British colonists, at the 129th meridian east, [2] without regard to the boundaries of existing Aboriginal groups. Consequently Aboriginal cultural groupings are not limited by it; some "Western Australian" Aboriginal groups extend across ...
Thomas Peel, a second cousin of the future British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, was granted some 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of land, part of it covering Pindjarup territory, as his personal domain. [4] The Pindjarup were in dispute also with the Whadjuk of the Swan River.