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unusual facts about indigenous Australian



Alcheringa

Alcheringa is a word in the Indigenous Australian Aranda language used to refer to the Dreamtime, also known as Alchera.

Balla Balla River

The traditional owners of the area are the Ngarluma peoples, who inhabited the region around the Balla Balla, the Maitland and the Sherlock Rivers.

Buderim

The name "Buderim" is from the local Kabi Kabi Aboriginal word for the hairpin honeysuckle, (Badderam) Banksia spinulosa var. collina, which grew abundantly in the sandy country around the plateau.

Bungandidj people

The Buandig people (Boandik, Booandik, Bunganditj) are Indigenous Australians from the Mount Gambier region in western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia.

Carbunup River, Western Australia

The town is named after the Carbunup River, the word Carbunup is Aboriginal in origin and is thought to mean place of the cormorants or place of a kindly stram or place of the Stinkwood thicket.

City of Banyule

The City was named after the Indigenous Australian term Banyule or "Banyool", and was originally the name of a locality within the former City of Heidelberg before being adopted as the name of the new Council during the amalgamation of local government areas in Victoria.

Djargurd Wurrung

The Djargurd wurrung are Indigenous Australian people who traditionally occupied the territory between Mount Emu Creek and Lake Corangamite, extending to Mount Emu and Cressy in the North, and to Cobden and Swan Marsh in the South in central Victoria and are still represented in the region.

Gary Johns

He was president of the Bennelong Society, an organisation that advocated the provision of welfare for Indigenous Australians under the same rules as for all other Australians.

Gippsland massacres

The Aboriginal people of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, known as the Gunai/Kurnai people, fought against the European invasion of their land.

Kuku Yalanji people

Kuku Yalanji people are indigenous in Australia, originating from the rainforest regions of Far North Queensland and speaking the language Kuku Yalanji; also spelt Gugu Yalanji and here Guugu Yalandji as variants in English transliteration spellings.

Kurrama language

The Kurrama people associated with the language are an indigenous Australian group whose traditional lands are centred on the higher plateau regions of the Hamersley Ranges.

Mona Rockman Napaljarri

Mona Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1924) is a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

Pecan Summer

Pecan Summer is an opera written and composed by the Indigenous Australian singer Deborah Cheetham, who also sang in the premiere season.

Rex Battarbee

Reginald Ernest Battarbee (16 December 1893 – 2 September 1973) was an Australian artist notable for painting landscapes of Central Australia, and for teaching Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira to paint.

Umbarra

Umbarra, or King Merriman (died 1904) was an Aboriginal elder of the Djirringanj/Yuin people of the Bermagui area on the South Coast of New South Wales.

Wangga

Wangga (sometimes spelt as Wongga) is an indigenous Australian genre of traditional music and ceremony which originated in northern areas of the country from South Alligator River south east towards Ngukurr, south to the Katherine region of Northern Territory and west into the Kimberley of Western Australia.

Wiltja

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

Yorta Yorta language

Yorta Yorta (Yotayota) is a dialect cluster, or perhaps a group of closely related languages, once spoken by Yorta Yorta people, Indigenous Australians from the junction of the Goulburn and Murray Rivers in present-day northeast Victoria.

Youndegin, Western Australia

The name of the town is Aboriginal in origin and is the name of a nearby hill, the name was first recorded by Charles Cooke Hunt during his 1864 expedition.


see also

Fawn-footed melomys

They compiled two indigenous Australian names for this species: Corrill, recorded from Stradbroke Island; and Cunduoo, recorded from the vicinity of the Richmond River.

John McGill

Biraban (died 1846), indigenous Australian leader known to Europeans as John McGill

O'Shane

Tjandamurra O'Shane (b. 1990), Indigenous Australian who was the victim of a racial attack at the age of six

Richard McCarthy

Darby McCarthy (Richard Lawrence McCarthy), Indigenous Australian jockey

Tjandamurra

Tjandamurra O'Shane (born 1990) - An Indigenous Australian who was the victim of a fire attack in 1996.

Jandamarra (c. 1873 - 1897) - An Indigenous Australian warrior who led armed insurrections in the 19th century.

Vic Cherikoff

Vic Cherikoff is regarded as an authority on Australian native foods and its associated industry, having been involved in the selection and commercialization of many of the 35 or so indigenous Australian plant foods now in the market place.

Waka waka

Wakawaka language, also Waga-Waga, an extinct Indigenous Australian language