Walbunja
The Walbunja, also spelt Walbanga and Walbunga, are an
Language
The
Country
Walbunja Country covers 2,500 square miles (6,500 km2) a region from Cape Dromedary northwards to the vicinity of
Alternative names
Alternative spellings include Walbanga[5] and Walbunga.[6]
According to Norman Tindale, alternative names included:[4]
- Thurga (tirga, is the Walbunja word for "no")
- Thoorga
- Bugellimanji (A Walbunja horde)
- Bargalia
- Moruya tribe
Notable people
- In 2023, Aunty Maryanne Nye, a member of the Walbunja community, was given the Paul Harris Fellow Award (a Rotary Club award) for her work at the Boomerang Meeting Place in Mogo, New South Wales.[7]
Notes
Citations
- ^ Reconciliation Australia 2014.
- ^ Dixon 2002, p. xxxv.
- ^ Slattery 2015, p. 122.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 199.
- ^ S53 Walbunja at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ "Our Culture and Heritage". Wagonga Local Aboriginal Land Council. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ "Aunty Maryanne Nye awarded for her dedication to Boomerang Meeting Place". Bay Post-Moruya Examiner. 8 September 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.
- Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
- "Returning to country brings wellbeing". Reconciliation Australia. 6 May 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- Slattery, Deirdre (2015). Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. ISBN 978-1-486-30172-0.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Walbanga (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.