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The Wiradjuri (many other spellings; see below) are an Indigenous Australian group of central New South Wales. Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ...
Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $305,437 (1st) - Product per capita $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006) - Population 6,817,100 (1st) - Density 8. ...
In the 21st century, major Wiradjuri groups live in Condobolin, Peak Hill, Narrandera and Griffith. There are significant populations at Wagga Wagga and Leeton, New South Wales and smaller groups at West Wyalong, Parkes, Forbes, Cootamundra and Young. Condobolin is a Western New South Wales town on the Lachlan River, with a population of 3500 in the town. ...
Peak Hill is a small town in Parkes Shire in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Narrandera is a town and Local Government Area in southern New South Wales, Australia. ...
Griffith is a city in south-western New South Wales, Australia. ...
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Leeton is a town and Local Government Area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. ...
West Wyalong () is a town in Australia, the main town for the Bland Shire, located in the Northern Riverina Region of New South Wales. ...
Parkes is a town with a population of approximately 10,500 (as of 2004) located in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Lands Office at Forbes built 1898; an all timber building in the Federation style Forbes is a town and Local Government Area (see Shire of Forbes) in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia, located on the Newell Highway between Parkes and West Wyalong. ...
Location of Cootamundra in New South Wales (red) Cootamundra is a town and Local Government Area (see Cootamundra Shire) in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Young courthouse built in 1886 but transferred to the Department of Education in 1925 and used as a school since Young (Latitude 34° 19 0 S Longitude 148° 18 0 E) is a town and Local Government Area in New South Wales, Australia. ...
Name
The Wiradjuri name for themselves is Wirraaydhuurray (northern dialect; IPA: /wiraːjd̪uːraj/) or Wirraayjuurray (southern dialect; IPA: /wiraːjɟuːraj/). This is derived from wirraay, meaning "no" or "not", with the suffix -dhuurray or -juuray meaning "having". That the Wiradjuri said wirraay, as opposed to some other word for "no", was seen as a distinctive feature of their speech, and several other tribes in New South Wales, to the west of the Great Dividing Range, are similarly named after their own words for "no".[1] For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ...
The Great Divide runs around the entire eastern and south-eastern edge of Australia The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australias most substantial mountain range. ...
The name has been attempted to be reproduced in writing in over 60 different ways, including Waradgeri, Warandgeri, Waradajhi, Werogery, Wiiratheri, Wira-Athoree, Wiradjuri, Wiradhuri, Wiradhurri, Wiraduri, Wiradyuri, Wiraiarai, Wiraidyuri, Wirajeree, Wirashuri, Wiratheri, Wirracharee, Wirrai'yarrai, Wirrathuri, Wooragurie.
Territory The Wiradjuri were the largest Aboriginal group in New South Wales. They occupied a large area in central New South Wales, from the Blue Mountains in the east, to Hay in the west, north to Nyngan and south to Albury: the South Western slopes region.[2] A panoramic view of the Blue Mountains The Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, are situated approximately 100 kilometres west of Sydney. ...
Stacked hay in Romania A bale of grass hay weighing approximately 70 pounds, able to be managed by one person without need for mechanized equipment Close view of grass hay. ...
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. ...
The South West Slopes is a region predominantly in New South Wales, Australia. ...
Occupation of the land by the Wiradjuri can be seen by carved trees and campsite remainders. Carved trees are more commonly found around the Macquarie and Lachlan rivers in the north rather than the Murrumbidgee in the south. Campsites, which indicate regular seasonal occupation by small groups, have been found on river flats, open land and by rivers. An Aboriginal scarred tree (Parramatta, NSW). ...
Norman Tindale quotes Alfred Howitt as mentioning several of these local groups of the tribe, for example, the Narrandera (prickly lizard), Cootamundra (Kuta-mundra) from kutamun turtle, Murranbulla or Murring-bulle (maring-bula, two bark canoes). There were differences in dialect in some areas, including around Bathurst and near Albury. The Wiradjuri are identified as a coherent group as they maintained a cycle of ceremonies that moved in a ring around the whole tribal area. This cycle led to tribal coherence despite the large occupied area. Norman Barnett Tindale (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist and entomologist. ...
Alfred William Howitt (1830 - 1908) was an Australian anthropologist and naturalist. ...
Lifestyle The Wiradjuri diet included crayfish and fish such as Murray cod from the rivers. In dry seasons, they ate kangaroos, emus and food gathered from the land, including fruit, nuts, yam daisies (Microseris lanceolata), wattle seeds, and orchid tubers. The Wiradjuri travelled into Alpine areas in the summer to feast on Bogong moths. Trinomial name Maccullochella peelii peelii (Mitchell, 1838) The Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii) is a large and striking predatory freshwater fish of the Maccullochella genus and the Percichthyidae family. ...
Binomial name Microseris lanceolata Murnong clock Murnong seed comparison; Tasmanian form on left, Australian form on right Microseris lanceolata (syn. ...
Looking across everlastings on Mt Hotham to Mt Feathertop; during winter these mountains are blanketed in snow The Australian Alps The Australian Alps are the highest mountain ranges of mainland Australia. ...
Binomial name Agrotis infusa (bogong moth) , Subspecies The Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) is a temperate species of night-flying moth notable for appearing in major proportions around major public buildings in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, during spring (late September to November). ...
Wiradjuri Language -
The Wiradjuri language had effectively died out of everyday spoken use, but has recently been reconstructed from early European anthropologist's records by Stan Grant, a member of the Wiradjuri Elder's Council, and John Rudder Ph.D., who has previously studied Australian Aboriginal languages in Arnhem Land. It is a member of the small Wiradhuric branch of the Pama-Nyungan family. Wiradjuri (many other spellings; see Wiradjuri) is a Pama-Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup. ...
Anthropology is the study of the anatomical and mental composition of humanity through the examination of historical and present geographical distribution, cultural history, acculturation, cultural relationships, and racial classifications. ...
Stan Grant (senior) is an elder of the Wiradjuri tribe of Australian Aborigines from what is now the south-west inland region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
John Rudder, Ph. ...
The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise several language families and isolates native to Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding Tasmania. ...
Arnhem Land is an area of 97,000 km² in the north-eastern corner of the Northern Territory, Australia. ...
The Wiradhuric languages or Central Inland New South wales subgroup form one of the subgroups of the Pama-Nyungan family of Australian Aboriginal languages. ...
The Pama-Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian languages. ...
The name of the town of Wagga Wagga comes from the Wiradjuri word Wagga meaning crow, and to create the plural, the Wiradjuri repeat the word. Thus the name translates as 'the place of many crows'. Wagga Wagga New South Wales, Australia, lies on the Murrumbidgee River and is that states largest inland city as well as being an important agricultural, military, educational and transport hub. ...
European settlement Clashes between European settlers and Aborigines were very violent from 1821 to 1827, particularly around Bathurst, and have been termed the 'Bathurst Wars'. The loss of fishing grounds and significant sites and the killing of Aboriginal People was retaliated through attacks with spears on cattle and stockmen. In the 1850s there were still corroborees around Mudgee but there were fewer clashes. European settlement had taken hold and the Aboriginal population was in decline. Location of Mudgee in New South Wales (red) Mudgee is a town in central New South Wales, Australia. ...
Notable Wiradjuri people Wiradjuri elders Isabell Coe and Neville "Uncle Chappy" Williams are leading landactivists and proponents in the Lake Cowal Campaign. Wyndradyne was an important aboriginal leader during the Bathurst Wars Neville Chappy Williams, known as Uncle Chappy to those who follow indigenous Australian customs, is an elder of the Wiradjuri Nation, in western New South Wales, Australia. ...
campaign around Lake Cowal attempting to disallow further gold mining by Barrick Gold. ...
Wiradjuri culture in fiction The short story "Death in the Dawntime", originally published in The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (Mike Ashley, editor; 1995), is a murder mystery that takes place entirely among the Wiradjuri people before the arrival of Europeans in Australia. The story prominently features various concepts in Wiradjuri folklore and tradition, such as the ngurupal: this is an area within the tribal territory which is a public assembly space for adult male Wiradjuri who have been formally initiated into manhood, yet which is forbidden ground for females or uninitiated males. Some of the dialogue in this story is in the Wiradjuri language. "Death in the Dawntime" was written by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, a British author who spent his formative years in the Australian outback, where he encountered representatives of many Aboriginal cultures. Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ...
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (center) is seen here at the London offices of The Spectator with (left) Boris Johnson, Member of Parliament for Henley-on-Thames, and (right) Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro OBE, chairman of Richemont Holdings UK. Fergus (also Feargus) Gwynplaine MacIntyre. ...
References - ^ (1994) Macquarie Aboriginal Words. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 24, 79–80, 87.
- ^ Tindale, N.B. (1974). Wiradjuri (NSW). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. South Australian Museum. Retrieved on 2006-05-26.
Norman Barnett Tindale (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist and entomologist. ...
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External links - from the N. B. Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (1974)
- AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database:Wiradjuri with bibliographic links
- New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service regional history of the South western slopes
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