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There are several hundred Indigenous Australian communities in Australia, which are often (but not particularly accurately) referred to as tribes. Many are communities which existed before the British annexation of Australia in 1788. Image File history File links Merge-arrow. ... This List of Indigenous Australian group names contains names and collective designations which have been applied, either formerly or in the past, to groups of Indigenous Australians. ... This List of Indigenous Australian group names contains names and collective designations which have been applied, either formerly or in the past, to groups of Indigenous Australians. ... Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ... The first definite sighting of Australia by European explorers was in 1606. ...

The term "tribe" is generally not one used by Aboriginal people themselves. They will generally talk of their "people" and their "country". These countries [1] are ethnographic areas, usually the size of an average European country, and numbering around two hundred on the Australian continent at the time of White arrival. http://www. ...

Within each country, people lived in clan groups – extended families with strict moiety taboos. Inter-clan contact was common, as was inter-country contact, but there were strict protocols around this contact. For other uses, see Clan (disambiguation). ... Australian Aboriginal kinship is the system of law governing social interaction, particularly marriage, in traditional Aboriginal culture. ... This article is about cultural prohibitions in general, for other uses, see Taboo (disambiguation). ...

Before Europeans, indigenous communities numbered over 400. The largest Aboriginal community today is the Pitjantjatjara who live in the area around Uluru (Ayers Rock), while the second largest Aboriginal community are the Arrernte people who live in and around Alice Springs. The third largest are the Luritja, who live in the lands between the two largest just mentioned. The Aboriginal languages with the largest number of speakers today are the Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri and Arrernte. Image:Some aboriginal communities in the northern territory australia. ... For the band, see Ayers Rock (band). ... Arrente is both a language, a group of people, and an area of land in Central Australia. ... Alice Springs on a large scale map Alice Springs is a large town in the Northern Territory of Australia located at 23°42′ S 133°52′ E. Its population of 28,178 (2001 Census) makes it the second-largest settlement in the Territory (the only other towns of... Luritja is both an Australian Aboriginal country, a group of people and a language. ... Image:Some aboriginal communities in the northern territory australia. ...

Australian Capital Territory

• Ngunnawal people or Ngunnawal tribe were the first inhabitants of the area which is now occupied by the city of Canberra, Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. They spoke the Ngunnawal language. The city of Canberra is named after the Ngunnawal word 'Kambera'. Many other place names around Canberra are given Ngunnawal names, such as Tuggeranong, Ginninderra, Murrumbidgee, the suburb Ngunnawal and many road names.

The Ngunnawal people (alternatively Ngunnawal tribe, or more latterly Ngunnawal Nation) are the indigenous Australian inhabitants whose traditional lands encompass much of the area now occupied by the city of Canberra, Australia and the surrounding Australian Capital Territory. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ... Location of Tuggeranong Tuggeranong Town Centre is located on Lake Tuggeranong Tuggeranong is the southernmost town centre of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. ... Lake Ginninderra is an artificial lake located on the Ginninderra Creek and adjacent to the Belconnen Town Centre. ... The Murrumbidgee River is a major river in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. ... Ngunnawal is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Gungahlin. ...

New South Wales

Portrait of Bennelong, senior man of the Eora people, who was given a brick hut on Bennelong Point where the Sydney Opera House now stands, and later travelled to England in 1792.

• The Cammeraygal (also called Awakabal) tribe was an Aboriginal tribe that inhabited the Lower North Shore area of the present day North Sydney Council in Sydney, Australia. The name 'Cammeraygal' is ensigned on the North Sydney Municipal Emblem and also gave name to the suburb of Cammeray. The Awakabal also lived in the area of present day Newcastle

• The Eora people were the aboriginal occupants of the Sydney region in 1788 when the first European colonists arrived. Some of the words of aboriginal provenance still in use today in Australian English are from the Eora language: dingo, woomera, wallaby, wombat, waratah, boobook (owl), wallaroo. Bennelong was a senior member of the Eora people, who served as an interlocutor between the British and Eora people, and travelled to England, and later returned to Australia in 1795. He died at Kissing Point (known now as Ryde) on 3 January 1813. Bennelong Point, where the Sydney Opera House now stands, is named after him. He lived there after he persuaded New South Wales Governor Arthur Phillip to build a brick hut for him on the point.

• Kamilaroi is an Australian Aboriginal people who are from the area between Tamworth and Goondiwindi, west to Narrabri and Lightning Ridge, in northern New South Wales. Kamilaroi mythology includes Baiame, the ancestor or patron god. He was married to Birrahgnooloo, with whom he was the father of Daramulum. The Kamilaroi Highway was named after them.

• The Turuwal people were an Aboriginal sub-group of the Dharug language nation in the area around Wollongong, south of Sydney. They are famous for the name of the boomerang coming from their language.

• Wiradjuri, or Wiradhuri, speak the language of the same name. They occupied a large area of central New South Wales, from the Blue Mountains in the east, to Hay in the west, north to Nyngan and south to Albury. This area includes the towns of Wagga Wagga, Bathurst and Dubbo.

• The Wonnarua people (‘people of the hills and plains’) have territory located in the upper Hunter Valley.

Image File history File links An undated portrait thought to depict Bennelong, signed W.W. now in the Dixson Galleries of the State Library of New South Wales. ... Image File history File links An undated portrait thought to depict Bennelong, signed W.W. now in the Dixson Galleries of the State Library of New South Wales. ... For other uses, see Bennelong (disambiguation). ... Portrait of Bennelong, senior man of the Eora / Dharawal tribe The traditional owners of the inner Sydney City region of Australia are the Cadigal people. ... The Sydney Opera House on Bennelong Point. ... The Sydney Opera House is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... The Cammeraygal tribe was an indigenous Aboriginal tribe that inhabited the Lower Northern Sydney area of the present day North Sydney Municipality in Sydney, Australia. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... Portrait of Bennelong, senior man of the Eora / Dharawal tribe The traditional owners of the inner Sydney City region of Australia are the Cadigal people. ... For other uses, see Dingo (disambiguation). ... This article is about the woomera, a weapon. ... For other uses, see Wallaby (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Wombat (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Waratah (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Wallaroo (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Bennelong (disambiguation). ... Kissing Point is an area located in the Sydney Lower North Shore locality of South Ryde, or what is far more commonly known as Putney. ... Ryde, seen from Ryde Pier and showing the twin spires. ... Categories: Australia geography stubs | Sydney | Islands of Australia ... The Sydney Opera House is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Admiral Arthur Phillip RN (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. ... Kamilaroi is an Australian Aboriginal people who are from the area between Tamworth and Goondiwindi, west to Narrabri and Lightning Ridge, in northern New South Wales. ... For other places named Tamworth, see Tamworth (disambiguation). ... Goondiwindi is a small Australian town of about 5000 people on the MacIntyre River in Queensland near the New South Wales border, approximately 350 kilometres by road from the Queensland state capital, Brisbane. ... Narrabri is a town of approximately 8000 persons and a Local Government Area in north-central New South Wales. ... Lightning Ridge is a town of approximately 2000 persons in north-western New South Wales, Australia. ... In Aboriginal mythology, Baiame was the ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi. ... In Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Kamilaroi), Birrahgnooloo is a goddess of fertility who would send floods if properly asked. ... In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi), Daramulum (“one legged”) is a son of Baiame and Birrahgnooloo. ... National Route 37 Kamilaroi Highway is a state highway in New South Wales. ... The Turuwal are an Aboriginal tribe based in New South Wales, Australia, famous for inventing the boomerang. ... Wollongong (pronounced ) is the 3rd largest city in the state of New South Wales, Australia, after Sydney and Newcastle. ... This article is about the wooden implement. ... The Wiradjuri (many other spellings; see below) are an Indigenous Australian group of central New South Wales. ... A panoramic view of the Blue Mountains The Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, are situated approximately 100 kilometres west of Sydney. ... Hay is a town in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales (NSW), Australia. ... Location of Nyngan in New South Wales (red) Nyngan is a town in north-western New South Wales, Australia. ... Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the Northern side of the Murray River. ... Wagga Wagga (pronounced wogga wogga, informally called Wagga) is a city in New South Wales, Australia. ... Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Area. ... Aerial image of Dubbo viewed from the southeast For the seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, see Electoral district of Dubbo. ... The Wonnarua people (‘people of the hills and plains’) are an Australian aboriginal people whose territory is located in the upper Hunter Valley of Australia. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Northern Territory

• Alyawarre who live north-east of Alice Springs. In 1980 they lodged a land claim, which was handed back to them on 22 October 1992. The size of the land was 2065 km².
• Anmatjera from an area near Mount Leichhardt, Hann and Reynolds Ranges, and northeast to Central Mount Stuart. Artist Clifford Possum is an Anmatjera man. Emily Kngwarreye was also an Anmatjera woman.
• Arrernte is a language, a group of people, and also an area of land in Central Australia. The population of Arrernte people living on Arrernte land (including Alice Springs) is estimated at 25,000, making it the 2nd largest of all Central Australian Aboriginal countries, after Pitjantjatjara. In most primary schools in Alice Springs, students (of all races and nationalities) are taught Arrernte (or in some cases Western Arrernte) as a compulsory language, often alongside French or Indonesian languages. Additionally, most Alice Springs High Schools give the option to study Arrernte language throughout High School as a separate subject, and it can also be learned at Centralian College as part of a TAFE course. Future plans are that it will be included as a university subject. Approximately 25% of Alice Springs residents speak Arrernte as their first language.

• The Gunivugi people live by the Liverpool River in Arnhem Land. They are Aboriginal people and speak the Ndjébbana language. They hunt dugong, turtle and fish.

• Gurindji, who from 1966 to 1975 at Wave Hill Cattle Station had a strike known as The Gurindji Strike. In 1975, the Australian Labor Party government of Gough Whitlam finally negotiated with the Vesteys to give the Gurindji back a portion of their land. This was a landmark in the land rights movement in Australia for Australian Aborigines to be given rights to their traditional lands.

• Luritja is a name used to refer to several dialects of the Western Desert Language, and thereby also to the people who speak these varieties, and their traditional lands. The Luritja lands include areas to the west and south of Alice Springs, extending around the edge of Arrernte country, which lie roughly between Alice Springs and Uluru. The total population of Luritja people (including Papunya Luritja) is probably in the thousands making them the 3rd largest of the Central Australian Aboriginal populations. It includes the town of Papunya.

• The Murrinh-Patha are a small tribe, living inland from the settlement of Wadeye, between the rivers Moyle and Fitzmaurice. Their language, also called Murrinh-Patha, is still spoken by about 900. The Murrinh-Patha culture is characterized by typical Native Australian social structure, including a complex kinship system with elaborate behavioral norms for interactions between the different kinship groups.

The Pitjantjatjara people (or Anangu) live in the area around Uluru

• Pitjantjatjara is the name of both an Aboriginal people (or Anangu) of the Central Australian desert and their language. Their influence extends from the area near Uluru in the Northern Territory to the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia. Their language is one of the most widely spoken Aboriginal languages.

• Warlpiri is a large group in the Northern Territory. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered through their traditional land, north and west of Alice Springs. Their largest community is at Yuendumu. Many Warlpiri, unlike people from other Aboriginal language and community groups, do not speak even a word of English. Warlpiri are famous for their tribal dances. Many Warlpiri have toured England, Japan, and most recently Russia, performing their dances.

• The Yolngu inhabit north-eastern Arnhem Land in Australia. Some Yolngu communities of Arnhem land re-figured their economies from being largely land-based to largely sea-based with the introduction of Macassan technologies such as dug-out canoes, after the Macassan contact with Australia. These seaworthy boats, unlike their traditional bark canoes, allowed Yolngu to fish the ocean for dugongs and turtles. Some Aboriginal workers willingly accompanied the Macassans back to their homeland across the Arafura Sea. The Yolngu people also remember with grief the abductions and trading of Yolngu women, and the introduction of smallpox, which was epidemic in the islands east of Java at the time.

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Queensland

• The Guugu Yimithirr refers to the name of the tribe, and the language which they speak. There are still several hundred speakers of the language, mostly living in and around Hopevale, Cooktown, and Wujal Wujal on Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. The site of modern Cooktown was a meeting place of two vastly different cultures when, in June 1770, the local Aboriginal Guugu Yimithirr tribe cautiously watched James Cook's crippled sailing vessel – HM Bark Endeavour – limp up the coast of their territory seeking a safe harbour. kangaroo was to be entered into the English language, coming from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kangaroo, which was gangaroo.
• The Kalkadoon people live in the area around Mount Isa in Western Queensland. There was fighting between tribesman and police in the nineteenth century; in 1884, 200 of them were massacred at "Battle Mountain", in a fight against police.

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South Australia

• The Dieri is an Australian Aboriginal group and (now extinct) language from the South Australian desert -- specifically Cooper and Leigh Creek, Lake Howitt, and Lake Hope, Lake Gregory and Clayton River and low country north of Mount Freeling. The Dieri protested the Marree Man geoglyph, saying that it had caused them harm and was exploiting their Dreamtime stories.

• The Kaurna people have traditional lands in and around the Adelaide Plains. The Kaurna people lived in independent family structures in defined territories called pangkarra. The Kuarna performed circumcision as an initiatory right and were the southernmost tribe to do so. Sadly, the last surviving speaker of Kuarna as a mother-tongue died in 1931; her name was Ivaritji .

• The Maralinga Tjarutja inhabit the remote western areas of South Australia. They are a Southern Pitjantjatjara people. The Maralinga Tjarutja native title land was handed back to the Maralinga people in January 1985 under legislation passed by both houses of the South Australian Parliament in December 1984 and proclaimed in January 1985. Maralinga people resettled on the land in 1995 and named the place Oak Valley Community. The local Aboriginal people were not warned effectively of the explosions from 1950s nuclear testing and many suffered terrible after-effects from fallout, although the 1984/1985 Royal Commission could find no evidence of this for the Maralinga Tjarutja.

• The Ngarrindjeri is the language and traditional Aboriginal people of the lower Murray River and western Fleurieu Peninsula. The traditional areas extend from Mannum downstream through Murray Bridge and Goolwa and along the coast through Victor Harbor to Cape Jervis to the southwest and around Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert and the Coorong to around Kingston SE. The Ngarrindjeri achieved a great deal of publicity in the 1990s due to their opposition to the construction of a bridge from Goolwa to Hindmarsh Island, including a Royal Commission and a High Court case in 1996. There was an Aboriginal legend about a sea creature called the Muldjewangk which inhabitated the Murray River, particularly Lake Alexandrina and the murray river.

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Tasmania

map of tribes

Tasmanian Aborigines at Oyster Cove

• 20th century historians previously held that Tasmanian Aborigines had become extinct with the death of Truganini in 1873, but this is no longer the accepted view. The original population, estimated at 8,000 people was reduced to a population of around 300 between 1802 and 1833 mainly due to the actions of white settlers who came to Australia from the United Kingdom, combined with disease and cultural disruption. The Black War and subsequent Black Line were turning points in the relationship with European settlers. Even though the tribes managed to avoid capture during these events, they were shaken by the size of the campaigns against them. Mannalargenna was the chief of the Ben Lomond tribe (Plangermaireener).

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Victoria

• The Gunai or Kurnai nation live in the area of south eastern Victoria, around Wilson's Promontory, Sale, Bairnsdale, Lakes Entrance, Snowy River and Mallacoota. The Gunai people resisted the European invasion of their land. Many were killed in fighting between 1840 and 1850. In 1863 Reverend Friedrich Hagenauer established Rahahyuck Mission on the banks of the Avon River near Lake Wellington to house the Gunai survivors from west and central Gippsland.

• The Kulin alliance is one of the indigenous nations of Australia who lived in central Victoria, around Port Phillip where Melbourne now stands, and Western Port, up into the Great Dividing Range and the Loddon and Goulburn River valleys. It included the Wurundjeri and Bunurong clans. On 6 June 1835 John Batman signed a 'treaty' (known as Batman's Treaty) with the Wurundjeri people where he purported to buy 2,000 km² of land around Melbourne and another 400 km² around Geelong, on Corio Bay to the south-west. In exchange he gave the eight "chiefs" whose marks he acquired on his "treaty" a quantity of "blankets, knives, tomahawks, scissors, looking-glasses, flour, handkerchiefs and shirts." By 1863 the surviving members of the Wurundjeri and other Woiwurrung speakers were given 'permissive occupancy' of Coranderrk Station, near Healesville. William Barak was the last ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri-willam clan. Bunjil is seen as the culture-hero or god of the Kulin people. The Bunurong were referred to by Europeans as the Western Port or Port Philip tribe.

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Western Australia

Portrait today of Yagan, the Noongar "chief of the Swan River"

• The Noongar (alternate spellings: Nyungar/Nyoongar)[1], are a group of Australian Aboriginal people who live in the south west of Western Australia from Geraldton in the mid west to Esperance on the south coast. The population of the Noongar at the time of European arrival was estimated between 6000 and 10000. The population in the 2001 census was 21000. Yagan was the head of the Beeliar group of Nyungar people when English settlers first arrived in and established the Swan River Colony in 1829. Captain James Stirling declared that the local tribes were British subjects. Although the Nyungar at first traded amicably with the settlers, as time wore on, rifts and misunderstandings developed, and attacks and reprisal attacks grew. Yagan was eventually beheaded and is now seen by many as one of the first Indigenous resistance fighters. Yagan's head was taken to Britain by Ensign Robert Dale, where in 1834 it was displayed throughout the country as the head of the "Chief of the Swan River". Many placenames in Western Australia are named after Noongar words, especially ending in "up" or "in/ing" (both meaning "place of" in different dialects) such as Joondalup, Manjimup, Narrogin and Merredin.

• The Spinifex people, or Pila Nguru, have their traditional lands situated in the Great Victoria Desert, in the Australian state of Western Australia, adjoining the border with South Australia, to the north of the Nullarbor Plain. They maintain in large part their traditional hunter-gatherer existence within the territory, over which their claims to Native title and associated collective rights were recognised by a November 28, 2000 Federal Court decision. The Australian Royal Commission was unable to determine if Pila Nguru people had been exposed to damaging levels of radiation from fallout after the nuclear testing near Maralinga in the 1950s.

• The Jarrakan are one of several groups in the north of the state.

This image is a portrait of Yagan by Robert Havell, as it appears in the frontispiece of Robert Dales 1834 booklet . ... This image is a portrait of Yagan by Robert Havell, as it appears in the frontispiece of Robert Dales 1834 booklet . ... Portrait of Yagan by George Cruikshank. ... The Noongar (alternate spellings: Nyungar/Nyoongar/Nyoongah),[1] are an indigenous Australian people who live in the southwest corner of Western Australia from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. ... Landsat 7 imagery of the Swan River and surrounds The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, in the south west of Western Australia. ... The Noongar (alternate spellings: Nyungar/Nyoongar/Nyoongah),[1] are an indigenous Australian people who live in the southwest corner of Western Australia from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. ... Location of Geraldton, Western Australia Geraldton ( ) is a city and port in Western Australia located 424 km north of Perth. ... Esperance is a town in Western Australia, located on the south coast around half-way between Albany and the South Australian border. ... Portrait of Yagan by George Cruikshank. ... Swan River Colony was a British settlement established at the Swan River on the west coast of Australia in 1829. ... Admiral Sir James Stirling Admiral Sir James Stirling RN (January 28, 1791–April 23, 1865) was a British marine officer and colonial administrator. ... Beheading. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... . Joondalup is a suburban centre 26 km north of Perths centre, and a Local Government Area of Western Australia. ... Entrance to Manjimup, late afternoon. ... Narrogin is a small town in Western Australia approximately 180 km from Perth, Western Australia. ... Merredin bush. ... The vast and harsh Nullarbor plain, as seen from space. ... For other uses, see Radiation (disambiguation). ... Maralinga is a small town in the desert of South Australia, famous for nuclear tests that took place there in the 1950s. ... The Jarrakan (formerly Djeragan) languages are a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia. ...

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• Journeys in Time - Australian Aboriginal Tribes A joint project between Macquarie University and the State Library of New South Wales retrieved 16 January 2007