Ngarigo
Ngarigo/Ngarigu People | |
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aka: Ngarigo, Bombala tribe, Menero tribe, and Cooma tribe Victoria | |
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The Ngarigo people (also spelt Garego, Ngarego, Ngarago, Ngaragu, Ngarigu, Ngarrugu or Ngarroogoo) are
Language
John Lhotsky, Charles du Vé, John Bulmer,[a] George Augustus Robinson, Alfred W. Howitt and R. H. Mathews compiled early word-lists of the language. In 1963, Luise Hercus managed to recover many terms conserved by descendants living in Orbost.[4]
Country
According to Norman Tindale, following R. H. Mathews,[5] the specific areas lands of the Ngarigo covered some 16,000 km2 (6,200 sq mi), centering on the Monaro tableland. The northern limits lay around Queanbeyan. It took in the Bombala River area, and ran south to the vicinity of Delegate and eastwards to Nimmitabel. Their western reaches extended to the Great Dividing Range of the Australian Alps.[1]
Socio-economic organisation
The Ngarigo clan and marriage structure consisted of a dual class system with matrilineal descent.[6]
The Ngarigo would contact, via notched
Post-contact history
With their hunting areas being stolen by European colonisers running sheep, many Ngarigo took on occasional labour on
Dispute over the traditional ownership of the Canberra area
Several tribes have been historically associated with the area around Canberra, with conflicting claims arising from the assessment of native title rights among those who descend from the Aboriginal peoples of the region. Descendants of the Ngarigo, Ngunawal and Walgalu have vied to assert primacy.
In 2013, an
Alternative names
- Bemeringal ("mountain men", of the coastal tribes)
- Bombala tribe
- Bradjerak/Brajeraq. (bara, "man,"+ djerak, "savage/angry")
- Cooma tribe
- Currak-da-bidgee
- Guramal, Nguramal, Gurmal
- Menero tribe
- Murring. ("men")
- Ngaryo. (common typo)
Source: Tindale 1974, p. 198
Notable people
- World No. 1 tennis player and National Indigenous Tennis Ambassador for Tennis Australia,[11] won the 2019 French Open, the 2021 Wimbledon Championships and the 2022 Australian Open. She wrote on Instagram in Feb 2022, "I’ve never been so proud to be a Ngarigo woman."[12]
Notes
- ^ Bulmer's list should be read with care, given Koch's note that:"15 of the items (from 'canoe' to 'wind') are matched with what should be the gloss of the next word on the list. Thus mamat 'canoe' should rather be glossed 'sun', the next word in the list, which other sources establish as /mamady/. " (Koch 2016, p. 146)
Citations
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 198.
- ^ Dixon 2002, p. xxxv.
- ^ a b Koch 2016, p. 145.
- ^ Koch 2016, pp. 145–147.
- ^ Mathews 1908, p. 335.
- ^ Flood 2000, p. 123.
- ^ Slattery 2015, p. 121.
- ^ Slattery 2015, p. 128.
- ^ Gillespie 1991, p. 217.
- ^ Towell 2013.
- ^ Myles, Stephanie (16 April 2018). "Barty named Indigenous Ambassador". Tennis Life Media. Archived from the original on 23 June 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ McMurtry, Andrew (4 March 2022). "Aussie surf star's 'wholesome' Ash Barty tribute is perfect". news.com.au. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
Sources
- ACT Government Genealogy Project: Our Kin Our Country: August 2012 Report (PDF), ACT Government, August 2012, retrieved 24 February 2016
- ISBN 978-1-742-23444-1.
- ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.
- ISBN 978-0-855-75085-5.
- Gillespie, Lyall Leslie (1991). Canberra 1820–1913. ISBN 978-0-644-08060-6.
- Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
- Koch, Harold (2016). "Documentary sources on the Ngarigu language: the value of a single recording." (PDF). In Austin, Peter K.; Koch, Harold; Simpson, Jane (eds.). Language, land & song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus. EL Publishing. pp. 145–157.
- Kwok, Natalie (January 2013). Considering traditional Aboriginal affiliations in the ACT region: Draft Report (PDF). ACT government.
- Mathews, R. H. (1908). "Vocabulary of the Ngarrugu tribe, N.S.W." Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 42: 335–342.
- Slattery, Deirdre (2015). Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. ISBN 978-1-486-30172-0.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Ngarigo (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.
- Towell, Noel (9 April 2013). "Canberra's first people still a matter for debate". The Canberra Times. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013.
- du Vé, Charles; Bulmer, John (1887). "Moneroo" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 429–233.