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The Wurundjeri people are an Aboriginal people of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation. They are the traditional owners of the Yarra River Valley, covering much of the present location of Melbourne. They continue to live in this area and throughout Australia. They were called the Yarra tribe by early European colonists.
Australia portal The main article for this category is Wurundjeri . This category describes the people, history, mythology and culture of the Indigenous Australian Wurundjeri people from central Victoria, Australia.
Prehistory of Australia—The shoreline of Tasmania and Victoria connected by land bridge about 14,000 years ago, showing some of the human archaeological sites. Wurundjeri is a common recent name for people who have lived in the Woiwurrung area for up to 40,000 years, according to Gary Presland.
Joy Murphy Wandin AO is an Indigenous Australian, Senior Wurundjeri elder of the Kulin alliance in Victoria, Australia.She has given the traditional welcome to country greeting at many Melbourne events and to many distinguished visitors where she says in the Woiwurrung language "Wominjeka Wurundjeri Balluk yearmenn koondee bik" ("Welcome to the land of the Wurundjeri people").
Some of the Rings have been put under the management of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation [7] and have also been included on the Register of the National Estate. [8] Several of the Sunbury Earth Rings are located and protected within the Jacksons Creek biik wurrdha Regional Parklands and in other open space ...
Other Woiwurrung clans include the Marin-Bulluk, Kurung-Jang-Bulluk, Wurundjeri-Balluk, Balluk-willam. Wurundjeri is now the common term for descendants of all the Woiwurrung clans. Bunurong (Bun-wurrung): spoken by six clans along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory.
William Barak (1824–1903) – last traditional ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri-willam clan; Robert Wandoon (1854–1908) – born at Coranderrk and said to have been anointed ngurungaeta, together with other men, by William Barak [4] James Wandin (1933–2006) – claimed by some family members to be a ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri [5]
Billibellary (c. 1799–10 August 1846) was a song maker and influential ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri-willam clan during the early years of European settlement of Melbourne. He was known by various names including Billi-billeri , [ 1 ] Billibellary , Jika Jika , Jacky Jacky and Jaga Jaga . [ 2 ]