Ngunnawal
The Ngunnawal are an Aboriginal tribe , indigenous people of Australia whose traditional land extends over the city of Canberra and the surrounding Australian Capital Territory . They first met the European settlers in the 1820s and speak their own language, the Ngunnawal language .
country
The Ngunawal lived in an area that included the areas of Queanbeyan , Tumut im ( Tumut Shire ), Boorowa im ( Boorowa Council ) and Goulburn .
The earliest evidence that the Ngunnawal lived in this area is on a rock at Birrigai near Tharwa , which was dated to an age of 20,000 years. However, and this can be seen from the age of other historical places in this area, human settlement in this region probably took place even earlier. Whether the early settlers of these places are direct ancestors of the Ngunnawal has not been researched. Ancestral knowledge and traditions strongly associate the Ngunnawal with these places and with the surrounding land, so it can be assumed that there is an ancient connection.
Their neighbors were the Yuin Aborigines on the coast, the Ngarigo southeast of Canberra , the Wiradjuri in the west and the Gundungurra in the north.
Some Aboriginal clans, such as the Ngamberri , claim parts of the territory that lie within the ancestral Ngunnawal areas. However, this claim to ownership and the status claim as a nation within the Aborigines in Australia leads to discussions, since the Ngamberri are a small family clan of the Wiradjuri nation. The Ngamberri did not come to these areas until the time of European colonization, when the European ranchers occupied the land. This is viewed by some Aboriginal Australians as a partisan attempt to secure this claim before the Ngunnawal succeed in claiming land. Some of the Ngunnawal work on the current properties in the area.
Other reports in Australia suggest that the last Ngunnawal full-blooded person, Nellie Hamilton , died in 1897.
politics
The Ngunnawal were not involved in founding the Canberra Tent Embassy in 1972, a political movement for Aboriginal land rights. The opening speech of the speaker of the constituent convention at the Old Parliament House in Canberra on February 2, 1998 contained the following sentence: “ We acknowledge that we are meeting today on country of which the people of the Ngunnawal tribe have been custodians for many centuries and on which the members of that tribe performed age-old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal. “(German: We know that today's meeting is taking place on the land of the Ngunnawal tribe, who were the administrators of this land for many centuries, and that tribal members held ancient solemn ceremonies, initiations, and ritual renewals.)
In October 2002, some Aborigines stated that they were members of the Ngunnawal who had been forcibly evicted from the tent embassy that had lost their way.
The 2004 ACT Planning and Land Authority's annual report called for an investigation into the Ngunnawal language to name the beaches at Lake Tuggeranong and Lake Ginninderra in accordance with their traditional names and geographical names for that language. In 2007, Matilda House , a Wiradjuri woman, was the first Aboriginal person to personally receive Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in this ancestral land at his request.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Future of the Tent Embassy , ABC Australia.
- ↑ SCULPTURE FORUM 95 / ABORIGINAL ART at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space . Archived from the original on September 6, 2004. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- ^ Aboriginals clash at tent embassy . Archived from the original on March 11, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 24, 2005.
- ↑ Aboriginal Parliament anew begin , CNN.
