wergaia history

An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Spieseke, who had been active at lake Boga for several years, established the Ebenezer Mission in 1859 in Wergaia country at a site called Banji bunag (variously spelled Bungo budnutt/Punyo Bunnutt),[29] close to where Willie's mother was killed, and a traditional meeting place and corroboree ground. The celestial pattern of the near stars reflected kinship patterns: Gnowee's sister was Chargee Gnowee (Venus), the wife of Ginabongbearp (Jupiter). [6], With the encroachment of European settlers from 1840 eager to run cattle and sheep conflict in Wergaia country was inevitable. In the following twenty years many Wergaia people were forcibly moved to Lake Tyers Mission in Gippsland under police escort, along with closure of all rations to Ebenezer Mission and seizure of children. [15] In his reasons for judgement Justice Merkel made special mention of Wotjobaluk elder Uncle Jack Kennedy and explained the significance of his orders: From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core, File:‘King Richard’ or ‘Dick-a-Dick’, the tracker who found the Duff children, 20 August 1864.jpeg, Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868, Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk Peoples v Victoria, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2012-010, Management Plan for Grampians National Park, "Stories in the Stars: the night sky of the Boorong people", On the Astronomy and Mythology of the Aborigines of Victoria, A Wergaia Planisphere: An Educational Tool, Clarke on behalf of the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk Peoples v Victoria [2005] FCA 1795 (13 December 2005), Barengi Gadjin Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, Wurundjeri Tribe Land and Compensation Cultural Heritage Council, Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporations, Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, Australian Aboriginal Progress Association, National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, Northern Territory National Emergency Response, https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Wergaia&oldid=686952668, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Language articles with unknown extinction date, Aboriginal peoples of Victoria (Australia), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, About Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core.

These are areas in which the Aboriginal peoples suffered severe and extensive dispossession, degradation and devastation as a consequence of the establishment of British sovereignty over their lands and waters during the 19th century.[32].

Dick-a-Dick was a Wudjubalug tracker responsible for finding the three Duff children lost in the Australian bush for 9 days in 1864 which garnered national and even international attention.

It also lists Victorian languages and their regions and contains a brief description of Wergaia. From the Collection of Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon Street Brunswick Victoria . Profile: The Mallee Plains in Western Victoria is home to Victoria’s first negotiated Native Title determination with the Wotjibolik Native Group, of which Wergaia is a party. The indigenous peoples of the Wimmera won native title recognition on 13 December 2005 after a ten-year legal process. Twenty clans made up the Wergaia language,[3] which consisted of four distinct dialects: Wudjubalug/Wotjobaluk; Djadjala/Djadjali; Buibadjali; Biwadjali. [25] He was widely believed to have been involved in the murder of an Aboriginal woman at Banji bunag in 1846,[26] where he had fired at random at a Gur-balug group of Aboriginal people at their camp site on the Wimmera River. [6], In 1902 the State Government of Victoria decided to close the Ebenezer Mission due to low numbers.

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