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Except for a short period between 1849 and 1855, during which the prison was closed, some 3,700 Aboriginal men and boys, many of them Noongars, but also many others from all parts of the state, were imprisoned. [28] A notable incident for the Noongar people in the Western Australian Colony was the arrival of Rosendo Salvado in 1846.
Makuru: from May to June, was "the wet", and Noongars moved inland from the coast to the Darling Scarp to hunt grey kangaroo [8]: 39 and tammar once rains had replenished inland water resources. This was the season of mid-latitude cold frontal rains. Malleefowl [8]: 41 were also caught.
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Matrilineal moieties and matrilineal clans; Includes Amangu, Yued, Wadjuk, Pinjareb, Wilmen, Ganeang, and Wardandi. These groups were split between the (White Cockatoo) Manitjmat and (Australian Raven) Wardungmat moieties; children were born into the mother's moiety.
The Wiilman originally occupied an estimated 6,700 square miles (17,000 km 2) of territory, taking in the future sites of Collie, Boddington, Pingelly, Wickepin, Narrogin, Williams, Lake Grace, Wagin, and Katanning.
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Noongarpedia is a collaborative project to add Noongar language content to Wikimedia projects and to improve all languages' content relating to Noongar topics. It is being driven by an Australian Research Council project from the University of Western Australia and Curtin University, in collaboration with Wikimedia Australia.
A later review and synthesis of recorded names and consultation with Noongars produced a list of recommended orthography and pronunciation for birds (2009) occurring in the region. [11] The author, Ian Abbott, also published these recommendations for plants (1983) and mammals (2001), and proposed that these replace other vernacular in common ...