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A place of deep Dharug cultural importance is an area previously called "Blacks Town" and now the suburb of Colebee which lies in the Blacktown local government area. In 2012, City of Blacktown ceased recognition of the Dharug people as the traditional owners of the area. The council also passed a motion, opposed by some councillors, to begin a ...
The word "koala" is derived from gula in the Dharuk and Gundungurra languages A Yuin man, c.1904The Dharug language, also spelt Darug, Dharuk, and other variants, and also known as the Sydney language, Gadigal language (Sydney city area), is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yuin–Kuric group that was traditionally spoken in the region of Sydney, New South Wales, until it became ...
The Gandangara joined forces with the Thurrawal/Darawal, who had linked up with remnants of the Dharug, in order to participate in the frontier war, also raiding cornfields. The decline in Dharug population had opened up parts of their territory to use by neighbouring tribal groups, which also fought among themselves.
The Bidjigal population was an estimated 500 people at the time of the British arrival, making them one of the most densely populated areas prior to colonisation. [24] The Bidjigal clan, like many of the Dharug people, utilised their access to water for fishing, with fish being their main source of food.
Wangal tribesman, warrior, and diplomat, Bennelong, first captured in November 1789 at the behest of New South Wales Governor Arthur Phillip [citation needed] The Wangal people (a.k.a. Wanngal or Won-gal [1]) are a clan of the Dharug Aboriginal people whose heirs are custodians of the lands and waters of what is now the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, centred around the Municipality of ...
Portrait of Bennelong, a senior Wangal clansman of the Eora.. The Eora / jʊər ɑː / [stress?] (also Yura) [1] are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales.Eora is the name given by the earliest European settlers [2] [a] to a group of Aboriginal people belonging to the clans along the coastal area of what is now known as the Sydney basin, in New South Wales, Australia.
Colebee (c.1800 – 1830) was a Boorooberongal man of the Dharug people, an Aboriginal Australian people from present-day New South Wales.Colebee and fellow Dharug man Nurragingy received land grants in recognition of their assistance in guiding British military forces in punitive expeditions against insurgent Gandangara and Darkinjung people in 1816.
Bennelong (c.1764 - 1813) representative of the Dharug people and pioneering interlocutor with the British; Beetaloo Jangari Bill (1910 - 1983) a Warumungu and Gurindji man who worked as a labourer and became an elder of his people; Billiamook (c. 1853) a Larrakia man and one of the first people to interact with white settlers in Garramilla