Jardwadjali

The Jardwadjali, also called Jadawadjali, are a tribe of Aborigines on the upper watershed of the Wimmera River, bordered the land in the east of Gariwerd, the ( Grampians National Park ), and inhabited by the Lake Bring Albert in Victoria in the west. The towns of Horsham, Cavendish, Coleraine, Asply, Minyip and Donald are in their area. There were 37 Jardwadjali clans that have an alliance with their neighbors the Djab wurrung - Aboriginal people through marriage, common culture, trade relations and kinship. The Jardwadjali Society is matriarchaisch.

History

In the field of Jardwadjali strain had someone living alone since 30,000 to 40,000 years; they lived thousands of years before the last ice age in Gariwerd area. Artifacts in the Victoria Range ( Billawin Range) have been dated at 22,000 years.

Conflicts and expropriation

In 1836, Edward Henty explored first European Jardwadjali the country from the south and the European colonization began. Another wave of colonizers came from the north with Lieutenant Robert Briggs, who settled in the country at Lake Lonsdale.

The discoverer Major Thomas Livingstone Mitchell came through the Jardwadjali country in 1836 and named many geographical landscapes, including the Grampian Mountains to the same mountains in Scotland. The Jardwadjali called this mountain Gariwerd, which means sharp mountains or the shoulder.

For the Jardwadjali and Djab wurrung Aborigines were the central figures in the creation Dreamtime, Bunjil and buledji Brambimbula, the two brothers Bram, who are responsible in their ideas for the creation, formation and naming of landscapes in western Victoria.

There were no Aboriginal mission station in Jardwadjali - country, so many Aborigines of Jardwadjali were spent in the Ebenezer Mission in Wergaia land on the Wimmera River and in the Lake Condah Mission to Dhauwurd wurrung country in the 1860s and 1870s.

Massacre

The settlement of the Europeans brought forth the resistance to land acquisition; Aborigines resisted or stealing sheep. This led to violent conflicts between white settlers and Aborigines, and partly to massacres of Aborigines.

A few reports of the massacre came to court. After the Fighting Hills massacre John Whyte traveled to Melbourne to put the Governor Charles La Trobe on the massacre in knowledge. The Protector of Aborigines Charles Sievwright, who personally examined massacre and reported on it, fell on deaf ears. No charges were ever brought and the Aborigines who assert their right was denied in court. The above affair was like never officially taken note of other affairs and not documented.

George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector of Aborigines, wrote in his diary in 1841, when he visited the area of ​​Portland Bay, where the Whyte Brothers, who were involved in massacres settled, :

Table: reports of massacres in Jardwadjali country until 1859

Language

The Jardwadjali language is 90 percent with the vocabulary of Djab wurrung identical. Subdialects are Jagwadjali, Jardwadjali, Mardidjali, and Nundadjali.

Cricket

Jardwadjali formed the core of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868, although there have been attempts by the central management to stop the tour because of the participating Aboriginal people. The team played 47 matches, won 14, lost 14 and played in another 19 Unamurriman was in cricket circles as Johnny Mullagh known player who was born in 1843.

Recent History

In 1989 there was a proposal of the Minister of Tourism Victoria, Steve Crabb, some geographical places rückzubenennen in this area back to the cultural heritage of the Aborigines. Against these proposals, a strong opposition raised by the descendants of European settlers. The Brambuk -Centre then proposed five Aboriginal communities as a double name for the main areas before, such as Gariwerd / Grampians. Some suggestions have been implemented yet:

• Grampians became Gariwerd ( Mountains)
• Mount Zero was to Mura Mura ( Little Hill )
• Hall 's Gap became Budja Budja

The Brambuk National Park and Cultural Centre in Halls Gap is owned by the Jardwadjali and Djab Wurrung. The center is managed by five Aboriginal communities that maintain the connections to the historical places of Gariwerd - Grampians Ranges and historic places.