Walbunja
Walbunja, also spelt Wulbunja, Walbanga and Walbunga, are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales.
Language[edit]
The language of the Walbunja People is Dhurga.[1]
Country[edit]
The Territory of Walbunja covers almost 20,000 square miles (52,000 km2) a region from the Shoalhaven River northwards to the vicinity of Nowra southwards to the vicinity of the Bega River. Their inland extension is as far as the north western, central western and south western sides of the Shoalhaven River which includes Bungonia, Windellama, Tallaganda, Braidwood, Araluen, Numeralla, Nimmitabel eastly to Bega, Carbago, Bermigui, Narooma, Bodalla, Nerrigundah, Moruya, Batemans Bay, Ulladulla, Wreck Bay, Jervis Bay, The Comerong Islands, all lie on and wintin The Territory of Walbunja.
The Wandandian peoples are the northern ethnic peoples of the Territory of Walbunja inhabiting the northern part and proportion of Walbunja to their northern boundary, and to their south are the Djiringanj[2] ethnic peoples of the Territory of Walbunja inhabiting the southern part and proportion of Walbunja.
Alternative names[edit]
Alternative spellings include Walbanga[3] and Walbunga.[4]
According to Norman Tindale, alternative names included:[5]
- 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.[6]
Notes[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ Dixon 2002, p. xxxv.
- ^ Slattery 2015, p. 122.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 199.
- ^ "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.