Gajirrawoong
(Redirected from
Gadjerong
)The Gajirrawoong people, also written Gadjerong, Gajerrong and other variations, are an
Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory, most of whom now live in north-eastern Western Australia
.
Language
Gajirrabeng or Gajirrawoong, as one of two Mirriwongic languages, the other being Miriwoong.[1] More recent work has established it as a member of the Jarrakan group.[2] Gajirrabeng is at severe risk of extinction, with no more than perhaps 2 or 3 native speakers by 2013.[1] Frances Kofod compiled a dictionary of the language in 2007.[3]
Country
Gadjerong lands encompassed 2,100 square kilometres (800 sq mi) in Norman Tindale's reckoning. They ran westwards along the rich ecosystems of mangrove flat, waterholes, creeks and waterfalls[4] along the coastal area from the mouth of the Fitzmaurice River as far as point where the Keep River flows out into the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf. Their inland extension, taking in also at Legune, went as far as the vicinity of Border Springs. They also frequented the offshore area of Quoin Island, and further north, Clump Island, and those off the mouth of Keyling Inlet.[5]
Native title claims
The Gajirrawoong people were represented in a successful
Exclusive possession was recognised across several community-leased areas.[6]
History
The implementation of the
Kimberley area. They were dispossessed of parts of their traditional tribal land and many sacred sites were destroyed.[7] In consequence they moved to the Aboriginal reserve in Kununurra. The extension of the principle of equal pay for equal work in 1969 to Aboriginal people also had a negative impact on peoples like the Gajirrawoong in the Kimberley region and the Northern Territory, since the managers of pastoral leases evicted the majority of Indigenous peoples on the land where they lived, with the collateral loss of employment and its substitution by welfare subsidies.[7]
Alternative names
- Kadjerawang
- Kadjarong, Kadjeroen
- Kujera
- Ginmu[5]
References
- ^ a b McGregor 2013, p. 40.
- ^ Hobson 2010, p. 146.
- ^ Hobson 2010, p. 147.
- ^ McWilliam 2006, p. 77-78.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 228.
- ^ "Copy of Native Title Map". Kimberley Land Council. 8 August 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ a b Howitt 2002, p. 249.
Sources
- Basedow, Herbert (1907). "Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 31: 1–62.
- Hobson, John Robert (2010). Re-awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages. ISBN 978-1-920-89955-4.
- Howitt, Richard (2002). Rethinking Resource Management: Justice, Sustainability and Indigenous Peoples. ISBN 978-1-134-80566-2.
- ISBN 978-1-134-39602-3.
- McWilliam, Andrew (2006). "Absence and Plenitude:Appropriating the Fitzmaurice River". In Rose, Deborah Bird; Davis, Richard (eds.). Dislocating the Frontier: Essaying the Mystique of the Outback. ISBN 978-1-920-94237-3.
- Ngabidj, Grant; Shaw, Bruce (1981). My country of the pelican dreaming: the life of an Australian Aborigine of the Gadjerong, Grant Ngabidj, 1904-1977. ISBN 978-0-391-02218-8.
- Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kadjerong (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.