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Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod. Yee-Na-Pah, an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.
Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834 - 1905) the first Tasmanian Aboriginal Person born on Flinders Island; Tarenorerer (c.1800 - 1831) a female rebel leader of the Indigenous Australians in Tasmania. She led a guerrilla band against the British colonists during the Black War. Tedbury (c.1780 - 1810) an Aboriginal resistance fighter
At least fourteen were killed and the only survivors were two women and three children. Among those killed was a mountain chief Conibigal, [a] an old man called Balyin, a Dharawal man called Dunell, along with several women and children. [16] [14] Aboriginal descendants claim the figure of 14 is an underestimate, and that many more were ...
^ This name is the main name used in Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes. [7] Each has a separate article under the name listed there, and alternative names are also listed. In most cases (but not all) the name in the left column "Group name" is also the main name used by Tindale.
An illustration depicting a Wiradjuri warrior, thought to be Windradyne (c1800 - 1829). Windradyne was a warrior and a leader of the Wiradjuri near Bathurst.He established the friendly relations with William Suttor, whose father George crossed the Blue Mountains in 1822 and took up land that he named "Brucedale".
Pemulwuy, a warrior and resistance leader of the Bidjigal clan of the Eora people, in the area around Sydney; Tunnerminnerwait was an Aboriginal Australian resistance fighter and Parperloihener clansman from Tasmania; Yagan, a warrior and resistance leader of the Noongar tribe, in what is now the area around Perth, Western Australia
Gurangatch (Australian Aboriginal) - An enormous reptile-fish whose movements carved out the landscape south of the Blue Mountains; Gurumapa – Child-eating demon; Gwyllgi – Black dog; Gwyllion – Malevolent spirit; Gyascutus (American folklore) – Four-legged herbivore; Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) – Black dog
They once occupied a vast area in central New South Wales, on the plains running north and south to the west of the Blue Mountains. The area was known as "the land of the three rivers", [ 13 ] the Wambuul (Macquarie) , the Kalare later known as the Lachlan and the Murrumbidgee , or Murrumbidjeri .