Saturday is, without doubt, the most manly native we have ever beheld. She said sacred men's and women's places would also be "lost forever". A distinctive feature of the group was that they began with the term for no (wira) and concluded with the term for having (djuri) [ref]Grant and Rudder 2005; Howitt 1904: 108.[/ref]. [4], Aboriginal leaders Pat Dodson and Noel Pearson; the former Chief of the Australian Army and Governor of Western Australia, Lieutenant General John Sanderson; and current Australian business leaders, met at a remote property on the Murrumbidgee River near Gundagai in September 2008 on the first stages of an Australian Dialogue to promote constitutional reform and structural change for Indigenous Australian people. Gundagai, Monday", "Lightning Struck Drovers' Bodies Found Under Tree", "17 Jan 1946 Lightning Kills Horse But Rider Escapes", "8 Feb 1906 Bush Fire at Gundagai. [11], Similar attacks occurred nearby, at "The Mill" and "Warren Gunyah". Spring Wagga Wagga . It makes fascinating reading. Put simply, Aboriginal Places are a way of recognising and legally protecting Aboriginal cultural heritage. A man with no head called 'Craypton' lived up on 'Killimicat' and would ride down the mountain of a night on a horse. Written by James Rose (NTSCORP Senior Anthropologist). There are, however, numerous traces of their extensive occupation of the land. An enormous influx of the British onto the Wiradjuri lands put great strain on traditional food sources, and destroyed some of the Wiradjuri social and sacred sites. In October, the Sydney Gazette summed up the situation by stating that "Bathurst and its surrounding vicinity is engaged in an exterminating war". Wiradyuri community members have expressed their concerns over a plan to construct a new go-kart track on an area of Wahluu (Mount Panorama) that Traditional Owners say is a sacred women's site. Saturday, November", "8 Oct 1904 Boy Struck by Lightning. Bookings available on request. Settlement also restricted access to some Wiradjuri sacred sites. They were all clothed with Mantles made of the skins of o'possums which were neatly sewn together and the outside of the skins were carved in a remarkably neat manner. There were at least 18 Wiradjuri jin and probably many more. Evans' reports confirmed of excellent pastures beyond the mountains to which Governor Macquarie ordered a road be built from the Nepean River. [19] A boy, Patrick Vaughan, was struck by lightning in October 1904 and rendered unconscious for a long time. "If there's a road put through here, are we going to have to sit in the middle of a median strip to teach the kids that?" Condobolin southwards to Booligal, Carrathool, Wagga Wagga, Cootamundra, Parkes, Trundle; Gundagai, Boorowa, and Rylstone, Wellington, and Carcoar all lay within Wiradjuri territory. Royal Visitors Leave", http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24332900-5013172,00.html, "The Sydney Morning Herald. In late 1823, Windradyne (known as Saturday by the British) was captured for the first time. [31], The area is also identified as Jones Creek diorite. "We don't have that many sites spare to just go 'it's okay to destroy some Aboriginal history'," Mr Williams said. The protective benefits of declaration can be augmented by using other tools such asPlans of Management. Charles Sturt in Chapter Two of his Murrumbidgee exploration journal,[33] likened the 'verdant' Gundagai valley as having Diana of Nemi site parallels as recorded in James George Frazer's 'The Golden Bough',[34] when Sturt journeyed through the Gundagai area in 18291830. In response, the Wiradjuri resistance was born. Mr Carey corroborated Mrs Moroney's description of the ghost and dealt with it by hitting it on the head with a shovel the next time it paid him a visit. The ward system originates from Scotland and Eastern England where wards, that are watchful spirits that protect settlements from internal troubles and external dangers, form nightly a ring of benevolent spiritual protection against harmful spirits. SBS acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country and their connections and continuous care for the skies, lands and waterways throughout Australia. [5], Macquarie wrote: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, "We found here also three male natives and four boys of this newly discovered tract of country, who showed great surprise, mixed with no small degree of fear, at seeing so many strangers, horses and carriages but to whom they soon appeared to be reconciled on being kindly spoken to. They extended southwest to the vicinity of Hay and Narrandera. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Museum stands, the Wiradjuri Nation, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. Broch o' Gurness (Iron Age) and the new in Scotland. Wagga Wagga skyline. [1], The Murray River forms the Wiradjuri's southern boundary and the change from woodland to open grassland marks their eastern boundary. [40] Beating the Bounds, the religious form of wards, is still practised in some parishes in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. 139142, 161167, Macarthur, J. The resulting roadworks would reduce travel time from about 40 to 29 minutes. This is because one of the main jobs of trackers was to pursue sheep, cattle and horse thieves. Wiradjuri people were also divided into four sections. WebThe Wiradjuri inhabited an area bounded by the Blue Mountains in the east, the western slopes in the south, and the change of open forest to grassy plains in the north and west. [5], Tindale says that some of the later terms had entered the literature, although not based on fieldwork and lacking Aboriginal support, as artificial, collective names for his "Great Tribes" of New South Wales. & SA); Barkunjee (Barkindji) (NSW), Kurnai (Vic. [1][54], To the east of Gundagai, local Aboriginal cultural tradition traditionally ran downstream into the Murrumbidgee, then on to Gundagai rather than upstream to Tumut. According to Transport for New South Wales' (TfNSW) own Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessment Report the "entire area within the project is significant to Aboriginal people", but has labelled the works as being of "national importance". Mount Minerva is the old name for what today is the hill known as 'Minjary'. '[19], Colonel William Stewart, appointed Head of NSW Police and Lt Governor of the Colony helped oversee some of the government response to the Bathurst Uprising. For Wiradyuri people, the connection to Wahluu spans much further, with a creation story of a young warrior killed by his brother, which has been passed down for generations. This concept of a life force which creates all new life also explains one of the functions of religious ceremony. Contact with the Europeans was disastrous for the Wiradjuri whose numbers were soon decimated. 'West Ward' at Gundagai is still delineated by West Street. They stood there, sullen, silent, motionless. The Mudgee district holds many sacred Aboriginal sites and cave painting, some sites with evidence of tool making. Also available [online]. It has hindquarters similar to that of an emu but with a long tail and it appears to be sitting on a bend in the river that has a box shape. Gundagai Aboriginal elders, Jimmy Clements and John Noble, attended the 1927 opening of the new Federal Parliament House in Canberra by the Duke of York (later George VI.) [45][46][47], Snakes do unusual things at Gundagai such as the eastern brown snake that removed itself from the stomach of a red-bellied black snake after the red-belly black had eaten it. Aunty Helen Riley is an Elder on the board of the Mingaan Wiradjari Aboriginal Corporation. 'Kimo' is also known as Nargun. Tumut Geological Series Sheet 8527, Edition 1, 1990, Department of Minerals and Energy under the authority of the Minister for Minerals and Energy, 1990. identified in Parkes, W. (1952) correspondence between Tindale, Parkes and Hancock, Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Manuscript Collection, D/162, p.96. [20] It included unlimited and unrestricted water rights to the Macquarie River. The Wiradjuri people (Wiradjuri northern dialect pronunciation[wirajduraj]; Wiradjuri southern dialect pronunciation[wirajuraj]) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales, united by common descent through kinship and shared traditions. Keep up to date with everything happening at Wagga Wagga City Council. Caused by Lightning. an opportunity to contribute to the process of reconciliation; the chance to share knowledge of, and learn more about, their land; protection in perpetuity of the Aboriginal Place under Section 90 of the NP&W Act; access to specialist advice from the Office of Environment and Heritage on the. From here they saw a vast expanse of forest and grass in which Blaxland wrote was rich enough "to support the stock of the colony for the next thirty years". He writes that there was such a "literary need for major groupings that [Fraser] set out to provide them for New South Wales, coining entirely artificial terms for his 'Great tribes'. [54] Yarri and Jacky Jacky were honoured with bronze medallions for their efforts, and were allowed to demand sixpences from all Gundagai residents, although Yarri was maltreated on at least one occasion after the flood. Throughout that person's life, more skins were added, with the original skin eventually buried in the cloak. 1828, Interview with Goethe, p.181, James Macarthur, in 'Quadrant Volume 12', 1968, H.R. [67] Declaring an area an Aboriginal Place is a way of formally recognising the cultural attachment Aboriginal people have to land, to Country. [44], The Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai has been a place of numerous bunyip sightings. The Wiradjuri autonym is derived from wirraay, meaning "no" or "not", with the comitative suffix -dhuurray or -juuray meaning "having". Bunyips, understood to be where streams flood out of their usual channel in wet seasons flooding surrounding land but also drowning anyone caught on the wrong side of them, are recorded on the Gundagai floodplain; opposite 'Kimo'; and at the junction of the Tumut and Murrumbidgee rivers. The floodplains of the Murrumbidgee below the present town of Gundagai were a frequent meeting place of Wiradjuri speaking people from nearby regions. [9], In early 1824, on the river flats opposite of the town of Bathurst, a farmer in a friendly gesture offered a group of passing Wiradjuri people some potatoes. [2] As with all ancient sacred places, particularly within still continuing Australian Aboriginal culture, the sacredness of Gundagai's amazing Australian Aboriginal cultural landscape continues despite colonial and later intrusion. Individuals learned the stories, songs and dances of their jin and were not allowed to eat or damage them. Jimmy Clements also known as King Billy whose traditional name was 'Yangar',[3] walked forward to respectfully salute the Duke and Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), and after that the two elders were formally presented to the Royal couple as prominent citizens of Australia. Indyamarra Reconciliation Site . 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