Narungga
The Aboriginal tribe of the Narungga mostly lived in large settlements on the coast of the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia or near the coast of lakes, where they lived all year round. This is proven by means of deposits. It was a nomadic people of hunters and gatherers who made stone tools. They are the traditional owners of the Yorke Peninsula who regained land rights, a registered native title, in 2005. Today's Narungga people consist of four clans.
history
Settlements
The main and largest settlements were Moonta Bay, Cape Elizabeth, Chinaman's Well, Point Pearce, Black Point, Point Yorke, Brown's Beach, Tiddy Widdy, and Port Moorowie. Some were hundreds of square feet and some were just a few square feet. In other places, mostly on the coast, they only lived in camps for a short time when they had to stay overnight or when they wanted to collect more food or hunt or fish. The seasons had an impact on their migratory movements. They lived on the coast on seafood such as snails and clams, the shells of which they also used for cultural and ceremonial purposes. They also fed on the meat of the emus , the kangaroos , the possum , wombats , Australian nasal cones , fish, crabs , lizards and bird eggs .
Artifacts
Artifacts made of stone for various purposes, such as hammers, knives, spears, chisels and tools were made and found in the settlements. Some of these tools were set in wooden shafts. Some of them were made and painted for ceremonies. The stone tools were partly made of quartz , chert , flint and quartzite . Occasionally, tools made from bones were also used.
The flint quarry at Pine Point was possibly the most important quarry on the peninsula and tools made from this material have been found in numerous settlements as far as Adelaide .
Burials
Burials took place at numerous locations on the peninsula or sand hills along the coast, with the buried being buried in ceremonies and with body paints with ocher . Two burial sites at Troubridge Hill could be dated to 500 years and at Port Moorowie to 900 years. There may be sites that are a few thousand years old.
First contact with whites
The Narungga first had contact with Europeans in the 1830s. When large numbers of Europeans settled on the peninsula in the 1850s, their original population dropped from 500 in 1847 to less than 100 in the 1860s. In 1868 a mission station was established on Point Pearce, in which the Narungga were brought together with the Murray Aboriginal peoples and from the Adelaide area. Point Pearce is 21 kilometers southwest of Maitland and 20 kilometers north of Port Victoria .
Land of the Narungga
The land of the Narungga stretches from Port Broughton to the Hummock Ranges. Their neighbors are the Kaurna from the Adelaide area and the Nukunu to the north, with whom the Narungga people trade and share ceremonies. The Narungga people consist of four clans, the Kurnara in the north, Windera in the east, Wari in the west and Dilpa in the south. In 1999 a health program was started for the Narungga with a health station in Maitland and on October 6, 2005 they were given back land use rights.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Narungga Health Story from 1999 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 96 kB)
- ^ Website of the Narungga
- ↑ Yorke Peninsula Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA)
