Yorta Yorta
The Yorta Yorta, also known as Jotijota,
Names
As was customary with many tribal names in the Murray basin –
Norman Tindale (1974) listed the following alternative names used to refer to Yorta Yorta people:[3]
- Arramouro
- DjaDja Wurrung clan
- Echuca clan (used of Yorta Yorta clans south of the Murray)
- Gunbowerooranditchgoole
- Gunbowers (toponym, now Gunbower)
- Loddon clan
- Moira (toponym)
- Ngarrimouro, Ngarrimowro
- Wollithiga
- Woollathura
- Yoorta (also an exonym for some clans of the Bangerangclan)
- Yotayota
Language
The
It shares few similarities in vocabulary with the languages used by neighbouring tribes, and lexically seems closest to Pallanganmiddang.[4]
Social organisation
The Yorta Yorta were divided into clans, of which the names of ten were enumerated by Edward Micklethwaite Curr based on the situation in the 1840s:-
Tindale (1974) named only three:[7]
- Gunbowerooranditchgoole.[c]
- Ngarrimouro
- Woollathura
Another source mentions "Dhulinyagan".[8]
The numbers may well estimate the historic population since evidence from oven mounds in the area suggested a higher population density in former times, and it is known that the area was ravaged by smallpox epidemics.[citation needed]
In modern times, the Yorta Yorta comprise a number of historically distinct tribes, as well as
1995 Native title claim
In a Native title claim submitted in 1995 by the Yorta Yorta people, it was determined by Justice Olney in 1998 that the "tide of history" had "washed away" any real acknowledgement of traditional laws and any real observance of traditional customs by the applicants.[10] An appeal was made to the full bench of the Federal Court on the grounds that "the trial judge erroneously adopted a 'frozen in time' approach" and "failed to give sufficient recognition to the capacity of traditional laws and customs to adapt to changed circumstances". The Appeal was dismissed in a majority 2 to 1 decision.[11] The case was taken on appeal to the High Court of Australia but also dismissed in a 5 to 2 majority ruling in December 2002.[12][13]
In response to the failed native title claim, in May 2004 the
Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation
The Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation (YYNAC), established in 1999 and not to be confused with the former Yorta Yorta Local Aboriginal Land Council which took ownership of
History
The
The Yorta Yorta Tribal Council (YYTC), formally established in April 1983,[19][18][20] but according to some accounts originally established in 1972 by Elizabeth Maud Hoffman, Margaret Wirrpanda and others,[21][22] took over the work of the AAL in working for the Yorta Yorta people. Among the founders were It made another claim for the Barmah Forest in 1984[23] under the Cain government, which did not succeed.[18]
The Yorta Yorta Tribal Council was superseded by the Yorta Yorta Clans Group (YYCG) in 1989, which broadened its scope and encompassed a wider geographic area of traditional Yorta Yorta land. YYCG was superseded by the YYNAC in 1999.[18]
TOSA land settlement
In October 2010, the State entered into a
The Yorta Yorta Traditional Owner Land Management Board is a unit of YYNAC.
Prominent people
- Briggs, hip-hop artist.
- Burnum Burnum (1936–1997), activist, actor and author.
- William Cooper (1861–1941), helped establish the Australian Aborigines' League in 1935, led the first Aboriginal deputation to a Commonwealth minister, and another to protest the treatment of Jews and Christians in 1938.[27]
- Scott Darlow(singer songwriter) Rock singer
- Jeremy Finlayson, AFL player with the Port Adelaide Power
- Isaiah Firebrace, singer who represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
- Indigenous Australianfor the modern music industry.
- Sir Douglas Nicholls (1906–1988), professional athlete, pastor and pioneering campaigner for Aboriginal reconciliation, the first Aboriginal person to be knighted, and the 1976 first Indigenous Australian to hold vice-regal office (Governor of South Australia).
- Bill Onus (1906 – 1968), activist and actor.
- AM(1948 – 1996), artist, son of Bill.
- Jack Patten (1905 – 1957), professional boxer, civil rights activist, war veteran, writer, president and co-founder of the Aborigines Progressive Association. He led the first delegation of Aboriginal people to meet with a serving prime minister.
- John Trevor Patten (born 1936), Australian bantamweight boxing champion between 1958 and 1962.
- Wes Patten (born 1974), actor, television host, and former NRL player.
- Day of Mourningconference. First Aboriginal person to have published an autobiography.
- Andrew Walker, a former AFL player with the Carlton Football Club.
- David Wirrpanda, former AFL player with the West Coast Eagles, known for his community work in helping to improve the lives of young Indigenous Australians, named the 9th most influential Aboriginal Australian by The Bulletin in 2007.[28]
- Cummeragunja, New South Wales, daughter of activists Geraldine Clements Briggs and Selwyn Briggs & mother to David Wirrpanda.
Music
The track "
See also
- Wharparilla Flora Reserve, a small environmental reserve, the place where the Yorta Yorta first met European settlers
Notes
- ^ The presence of the "r" in the first term does not indicate the presence of a Rhotic consonant, but probably merely indicates a vowel quality similar to the aw sound in yawn (Bowe & Morey 1999, p. 3)
- ^ also called Waarīngulum (Bowe & Morey 1999, p. 6)
- ^ -goole represents kuli, meaning "man"
Citations
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 41.
- ^ Bowe & Morey 1999, p. 3.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 194
- ^ a b Bowe & Morey 1999, p. 4.
- ^ Bowe & Morey 1999, p. 1.
- ^ Bowe & Morey 1999, p. 6.
- ^ (Tindale 1974, p. 194)
- ^ Koori History 2016.
- ^ Yorta Yorta Co-operative Management Agreement.
- ^ AustLII 1998.
- ^ AustLII 2001.
- ^ AustLII 2002.
- ^ The World Today 2002.
- ^ Shiel 2004.
- ^ "Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v Victoria [2002] HCA 58 (12 December 2002)". kooriweb. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
In 1984, as a consequence of the operation of provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), an estate in fee simple in the former reserve land at Cummeragunja was vested in the Yorta Yorta Local Aboriginal Land Council.
- ^ "Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation". Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ a b "YYNAC Governance". Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ a b c d Atkinson, Wayne (10 September 2015). "The history of the YYNAC". Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ Atkinson, Wayne. "Chronology of the Yorta Yorta Struggle for Land Justice 1860–2009: A prima facie case for prioritising Yorta Yorta Nations in the Governments Land Justice Agenda" (PDF). Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "May 2009". Yumpu. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Elizabeth Maud Morgan-Hoffmann". www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ "Aunty Elizabeth Morgan-Hoffman". Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ Marcussen, Lisa (November 2014). "Selected bibliography of material on theYorta Yorta/ Yota Yota language and peopleheld in the AIATSIS Library" (PDF). AIATSIS. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
Corporate Author: Yorta Yorta Tribal Council. Title: Land claim submission / prepared by M. Wirrpanda, W.Atkinson and S. Bailey. Publication info: Shepparton, Vic 1984
- ^ "Agreements with Traditional Owners". Victoria Government. Dept of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) Forests and Reserves. State of Victoria (Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2020. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. (Stated here.)
- ^ "FAQ". Yorta Yorta Traditional Owner Land Management Board. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ Barnett 2013.
- ^ The Argus 1938, p. 3.
- ^ AFL 2007.
- ^ towalkwithyou.com 2013.
Sources
- Barnett, Laura (22 October 2013). "Aboriginal opera singer Deborah Cheetham: 'Not everyone was as lucky as me'". The Guardian.
- Blandowski, W. von (1858). "Recent discoveries in natural history on the Lower Murray". Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria. 2: 124–127.
- Bowe, Heather; Morey, Stephen (1999). The Yorta Yorta (Bangerang) language of the Murray Goulburn: including Yabula Yabula. ISBN 978-0-858-83513-9.
- Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (1887). "Book The Twenty-Third" (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. 567–592.
- "Deputation not admitted". The Argus. Melbourne. 7 December 1938. p. 3. Retrieved 25 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
- Goldberg, Dan (10 December 2012). "An Aboriginal Protest Against the Nazis, Finally Delivered". Haaretz.
- "The lyrics to Bura Fera". We Want To Walk With You. 13 September 2013. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v Victoria [1998] FCA 1606 (18 December 1998), Federal Court (Australia).
- Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v Victoria [2001] FCA 45 (8 February 2001), Federal Court (Full Court) (Australia).
- Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v Victoria [2002] HCA 58, (2002) 214 CLR 422 (12 December 2002), High Court (Australia).
- "Remembering Margaret Tucker (1904–1996)". Koori History. 6 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- Shiel, Fergus (1 May 2004). "Yorta Yorta win historic deal". The Age. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- "Wirrpanda recognised for work". Australian Football League. 30 November 2007. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2007.
- Yaxley, Louise (12 December 2002). "Yorta Yorta lose native title case". The World Today. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- "Yorta Yorta Co-operative Management Agreement". Archived from the original on 13 September 2006.