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3 unusual facts about Kaurna


Munno Para, South Australia

In the local Kaurna dialect, Munno Para means golden wattle creek.

The Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation

The Kaurna Reconciliation Public Project, 'Kaurna meyunna, Kaurna yerta tampendi (recognising Kaurna people and Kaurna land), was commissioned by the then Peace Trust.

William Wyatt

" Nonetheless, Wyatt does provide valuable, though sometimes unreliable, information on the Kaurna language.


Hazelwood Park, South Australia

Prior to European settlement, the area that is now Hazelwood Park was part of the traditional lands of the Kaurna people, that stretched from Port Broughton to Cape Jervis.

Humpy

In South Australia, such a shelter is known as a "wurley" (also spelled "wurlie"), possibly from the Kaurna language.

Patawalonga River

'Patawalonga', literally from the local Kaurna Indigenous language, is derived from 'Pattawilya + -ngga', the component parts being: Patta, which means a swamp gum tree (Eucalyptus ovata) and wilya meaning a branch while -ngga is a suffix used to indicate that the name is a location, patta-wilya-ngga the place of the branches of the swamp gum.

Solar bus

The Tindo solar battery-charged bus ("Tindo", Kaurna word for sun) is an experimental battery electric vehicle that operates in Adelaide, Australia.

Wiltja

Wiltjas are shelters made by the Kaurna people and other Indigenous Australian groups such as the Pitjantjatjara and yankunytjatjara people/groups.


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