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