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The Dharug or Darug people, are a nation of Aboriginal Australian clans, who share ties of kinship, country and culture. In pre-colonial times, lived as hunters in the region of current day Sydney. The Darug speak one of two dialects of the Dharug language related to their coastal or inland groups.
Although bands of Aboriginal people continued to live around the estates and growing settlements up to the 1840s, by this time there were less than 300 recorded Darug people left, 10% of the 1788 population. [4] [1] This equated to less than 10% of the estimated population at the time of European arrival. [5]
Sydney, Australia's New Year's Eve fireworks show has incorporated a Welcome to Country since the 2015–16 event to acknowledge the territory of Port Jackson as territory of the Cadigal, Gamaragal, and Wangal bands of the Eora people. This ceremony takes the form of a display that contains imagery, music, and pryotechnic effects inspired by ...
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.
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 traditional lands of the Cammeraygal people are now contained within much of the North Sydney, Willoughby, Mosman, Manly and Warringah local government areas. [4] [5] [6] The Cammeraygal people lived in the area until the 1820s and are recorded as being in the northern parts of the Sydney region for approximately 5,800 years.
According to the National Museum of the American Indian, it is a traditional practice that dates back centuries in many indigenous cultures. [2] [dubious – discuss] The modern practice of land acknowledgements began in Australia in the late 1970s, taking the form of the Welcome to Country ceremony, and was at first primarily associated with Indigenous Australian political movements and the arts.
He began his work in social justice for Indigenous Australians in the Perth region, Nyungar country, at a young age. [ 2 ] He is known for helping to develop the modern Australian welcome to country ritual, [ 3 ] when in 1976 he and Ernie Dingo and created a ceremony to welcome a group of Māori artists who were participating in the Perth ...