Ngarrindjeri

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The strain of the Aborigines the Ngarrindjeri consists of a group of 18 clans (lakinyeri) with similar language dialects and relationships at the lower Murray River and along the western Fleurieu Peninsula and Coorong in Australia .

The traditional areas of the Ngarrindjeri extended from Mannum downstream to Murray Bridge and Victor Harbor , along the coast from Goolwa to Cape Jervis , Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert from Murray Bridge through Tailem Bend , Wellington, Meningie and Coorong to Kingston SE .

Ngarrindjeri were , in effect, sex slaves and work by seafarers and whalers on Kangaroo Island in the early 1800s , after Tasmanian Aboriginal women . There is a report from the 19th century of an attempt to swim 16 km back to the mainland through the Backstairs Passage , where the fugitive died of exhaustion on the beach. For this event the so-called "steps of remembrance" and the "Seat of Emotions" memorial were created at Frenchman Rock near Penneshaw .

The Ngarrindjeri attracted a great deal of public attention through their protest against the Hindmarsh Island bridge in the 1990s. It was a bridge building project to Hindmarsh Island that would have destroyed numerous historical Aboriginal sites. This construction project was investigated by the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission and resulted in a ruling in the High Court of Australia in 1996.

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