Ngunnawal people

The Ngunnawal are a tribe of aborigines, natives of Australia, their traditional land extends over the city of Canberra and the surrounding Australian Capital Territory. They met the first European settlers in the 1820s and speak their own language, the Ngunnawal language.

Country

The Ngunawal lived in an area that included the territories of places Queanbeyan, Tumut in ( Tumut Shire ), in Boorowa ( Boorowa Council) and Goulburn.

The earliest evidence that the Ngunnawal lived in this area, is located in a rock at Birrigai near Tharwa, which has been dated at 20,000 years. However, and this goes out to the age of other historical places of the area, human settlement in this region was probably even earlier. Whether the early settlers of these places are direct ancestors of Ngunnawal, is not explored. Traditional Knowledge and traditions connect the Ngunnawal strong with these places and with the surrounding country, therefore, is to assume that there is the ancient connection.

Their neighbors were the Aborigines of the Yuin on the coast, the south-east of Canberra Ngarigo, the Wiradjuri to the west and the Gundungurra in the north.

Some clans of the Aborigines as the Ngamberri, claiming parts of the territory, which lie within the traditional Ngunnawal areas. However, this claim of ownership and claim the status as a nation leads within the Aborigines in Australia for discussions because the Ngamberri are a small family clan of the Wiradjuri Nation. The Ngamberri came only at the time of European colonization in these areas as the European ranchers occupied the country. Some Aborigines of Australia it is regarded as a partisan attempt to secure this claim before the Ngunnawal get success with their claim to land. Some of the Ngunnawal work on the current share possessions in the region.

Other reports in Australia believe that the last full-blooded person of Ngunnawal, Nellie Hamilton, died in 1897.

Policy

The Ngunnawal were at the foundation of the Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972, a political movement for the land rights of Aborigines, not involved. The opening speech of the speaker of the Constituent Convention at the Old Parliament House in Canberra on 2 February 1998 included the following sentence: "We acknowledge did we are meeting today on country End of month the people of the Ngunnawal tribe have been custodians for many centuries and on Which the members of did tribe Performed age-old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal " ( German: . We know that this meeting today takes place in the land of the Ngunnawal tribe, who was the trustee of this country for many centuries and that tribal members ancient ceremonial ceremonies, initiations and ritual renewals were holding. )

In October 2002, reported some Aboriginal people that they are members of the Ngunnawal, who were forcibly expelled from the Tent Embassy, who has lost her way ( "Lost Their Way" ).

The ACT Planning and Land Authority 's annual report of 2004 called for the investigation of the Ngunnawal language to name the beaches at Lake Tuggeranong and Lake Ginninderra in accordance with their traditional names and geographical names that language. In 2007 was Matilda House, a Wiradjuri woman, the first person of the Aborigines, who at his request received the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd personally in this ancestral land.