Walbunja
The Walbunja, also spelt Walbanga and Walbunga, are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales, part of the Yuin nation.[1]
Language[edit]
The Walbunja language may be a dialect of Dhurga.[2]
Country[edit]
Walbunja Country covers 2,500 square miles (6,500 km2) a region from Cape Dromedary northwards to the vicinity of Ulladulla. Their inland extension is as far as the Shoalhaven River. Braidwood, Araluen and Moruya all lie on what is Walbunja land. The Wandandian peoples lay on their northern boundary, and to their south are the Djiringanj[3] and Thaua.[4]
Alternative names[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ 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[edit]
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. 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. Csiro Publishing. 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.