Bundjalung people
| Bundjalung people | |
|---|---|
| Aka: Badjalang (Tindale)(Horton) Bandjalang (SIL) | |
 South Eastern Queensland bioregion | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Language family: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Language branch: | Bandjalangic |
| Language group: | Bundjalung |
| Group dialects: | |
| Area (approx. 6,000 sq. km) | |
| Location: |
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| Coordinates: | 29°15′S 152°55′E / 29.250°S 152.917°E |
| Mountains: |
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| Rivers[4] | Lower reaches of
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| Other geological: | Cape Byron |
| Urban areas:[4] |
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The Bundjalung people, also spelled Bunjalung, Badjalang and Bandjalang, are
Brisbane that now includes the Bundjalung National Park
.
The languages of the Bundjalung people are dialects of the Lower-Richmond branch of the Yugambeh-
Bundjalung language
family.
The
Byron Bay count themselves as one of the Bundjalung peoples.[1]
History
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Language
Pama-Nyungan language. It has two unusual features: certain syllables are strongly stressed while others are "slurred", and it classifies gender into four classes: (a) masculine (b) feminine (c) arboreal and (d) neuter.[6]
Country
Norman Tindale estimated the Bundjalung People lived over an area approximately 2,300 square miles (6,000 km2), from north of the Clarence River to the Richmond River including the site of Ballina and inland to Tabulam and Baryugil. The coastal Widje clan ventured no further than Rappville.[4] The area underwent significant change with sea level rise 18,000 to 7,500 years ago which completely displaced inhabitants of previous coastal areas and resulted in dramatic changes in distributions of peoples.
Alternative names
According to Norman Tindale, various spellings and other names were used for the Bundjalung people:[4]
- Badjelang (paidjal/badjal means "man")
- Bandjalang, Bandjalong
- Budulung
- Buggul
- Bundela, Bundel
- Bunjellung
- Paikalyung, Paikalyug
- Watchee
- Widje (clan or clans at Evans Head)
- Woomargou
Culture
Initiation ceremony
According to R. H. Mathews, the Bundjalung rite of transition into manhood began with a cleared space called a walloonggurra some distance from the main camp. On the evening the novices are taken from their mothers around dusk, the men sing their way to this bora ground where a small bullroarer (dhalguñgwn) is whirled.[7]
Musical instruments
The Bundjalung used a variety of instruments, including blowing on a
Eastern Australia Coastal Emus). When striking the emu-caller at one end with the open palm it sounds like an emu. This decoy attracts the bird out of the bush making it an easy prey.[citation needed
]
Native title
In late April 2021, the
Notable people
- Sharlene Allsopp,[9] author and poet, winner of the Ford Memorial Prize in 2021[10]
- Evelyn Araluen, poet[11]
- Bob Bellear, judge of the District Court of New South Wales, the first Indigenous person to be appointed to any court in Australia[12]
- Troy Cassar-Daley, country singer, winner of ARIA and Deadly awards, among others[13]
- Melissa Lucashenko, author, winner of 2013 Walkley Award for non-fiction and 2019 Miles Franklin Award[14]
- Madeleine and Miah Madden, actresses, half-sisters with Bundjalung heritage through their father[citation needed]
- Lambert McBride, activist for Aboriginal citizenship rights during the 1960s[15]
- Digby Moran, artist[16]
- Anthony Mundine, former boxer, rugby league star[17]
- Djon Mundine, artist[18]
- Warren Mundine, businessman, former politician[18]
- Mark Olive, Aboriginal Australian chef[citation needed]
- Nikita Ridgeway, tattoo artist and graphic designer[citation needed]
- Rhoda Roberts, journalist, arts advisor and artistic director[citation needed]
See also
- Bundjalung Nation Timeline
- Dirawong
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Bunjalung of Byron Bay 2001.
- ^ a b c d e f g Sharpe 1994.
- ^ a b Bandjalang at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b c d e Tindale 1974, p. 191.
- ^ Hoff 2006.
- ^ Sharpe 1993, p. 76.
- ^ Mathews 1900, pp. 67–73, 67.
- ^ Ross 2021.
- ^ "Sharlene Allsopp". Sharlene Allsopp. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ^ ""They Cannot Say Their Thoughts" – Winning Poem of the Ford Memorial Prize". School of Communication and Arts. 29 March 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ O'Brien, Kerrie (28 April 2022). "Stella Prize 2022 winner Evelyn Araluen makes history". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- SBS News. 22 March 2005. Archived from the originalon 6 October 2016.
- ^ TC-D.
- ^ "Melissa Lucashenko". UQP.
- ^ Austlit. "Linda McBride-Yuke | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ Farrow-Smith 2020.
- ^ "Chap off the old Block is pushing hard for the new". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ SBS News. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
Sources
- "About". Troy Cassar-Daley. Retrieved 21 November 2021.[better source needed]
- "ATNS - Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements project". Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements (ATNS) project. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- Bundock, M. (1889). "Note on the aborigines of Casino, N.S.W". Archiv für Ethnologie. 2: 52–53 – via Internet Archive.
- "Bunjalung of Byron Bay (Arakwal) Indigenous Land Use Agreement". Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements (ATNS) project. 28 August 2001. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2008.
- Farrow-Smith, Eloise (14 January 2020). "Digby Moran, internationally acclaimed First Nations artist, dies". ABC News. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- "Githabul People's native title determination: North-eastern New South Wales" (PDF). National Native Title Tribunal. 29 November 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2011.
- Hoff, Jennifer (2006). Bunjalung Jugun [Bunjalung Country]. Richmond River Historical Society. ISBN 1-875474-24-2. citing Yamba Yesterday, Howland and Lee, Yamba Centenary Committee.
- Langford Ginibi, Ruby (15 November 1995). "Australian Biography: Ruby Langford Ginibi" (Interview). Interviewed by Robin Hughes. National Film and Sound Archive.
- Mathews, R. H. (1897a). "Totemic divisions of the Australian tribes". Proceedings of Royal Society of New South Wales. 31: 154–176 – via BHL.
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 10: 29–42 – via BHL.
- Mathews, R. H. (1898). "Initiation ceremonies of Australian tribes. Appendix Nguttan initiation ceremony". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 37: 54–73 – via BHL.
- Mathews, R. H. (1900). "Walloonggurra ceremony" (PDF). Queensland Geographical Journal. 15: 67–74 – via Internet Archive.
- Ross, Hannah (30 April 2021). "NSW Bandjalang people victorious after 25-year native title fight". ABC News. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- Sharpe, Margaret C. (1985). "Bundjalung Settlement and Migration" (PDF). Aboriginal History. 9 (1): 101–124.
- ISBN 978-0-855-75241-5.
- Sharpe, Margaret C. (1994). An all-dialect dictionary of Banjalang, an Australian language no longer in general use. Linguistic Society of the Philippines Special Monograph Issue. pp. 35–48.
- Steele, John Gladstone (1984). Aboriginal Pathways: in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River. ISBN 978-0-702-25742-1.
- Threlkeld, Lancelot; Fraser, John (1892). An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal (PDF). Sydney: Government printer.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Badjalang (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
- "Troy Cassar-Daley". Talking Heads. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 4 May 2009. Archived from the original on 18 October 2010. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
External links
- Bundjalung of Byron Bay Aboriginal Corporation, representing the Bundjalung and Arakwal people, land and waters
- Bibliography of Bundjalung language and people resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- "Australia's Sacred Sites Part 5 - Byron Bay"[permanent dead link] ABC Radio's Spirit of Things (October 2002; Retrieved 21 May 2008
- A Walk in the Park Series: "New South Wales - Arakwal National Park" ABC Radio (December 2004) Retrieved 21 May 2008
- "Badjalang" AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database. Retrieved 20 May 2008
- Bunjalung of Byron Bay (Arakwal) Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) Archived 29 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 21 May 2008
- New South Wales Department of Environment and Climate Change Aboriginal cultural heritage webpage Living on the frontier Retrieved 21 May 2008