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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.
Sewn and incised possum-skin cloak of Wurundjeri origin (Melbourne Museum). The Woiwurrung tribes would have been aware of the Europeans, through the close relationship to the Boon wurrung people of the coast who came into contact with the Baudin expedition on the French ship Naturaliste during 1801, and then the British settlement at Sullivan Bay in 1803, near modern-day Sorrento, Victoria.
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.
Bebejan (birth circa 1796, died August 1836) also known as Bebejern or Jerum Jerum, was a Ngurungaeta (Leader -pronounced ung-uh-rung-eye-tuh) of the Wurundjeri people of the Woiwurung language group in the present day Australian state of Victoria. The four Woiwurung clans collectively claimed the area of the Yarra River and its tributaries. [1]
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 ...
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People of the Merri Merri. The Wurundjeri in Colonial Days. East Brunswick, Victoria: Merri Creek Management Committee. ISBN 0-9577728-0-7. OCLC 52505206. Pascoe, Bruce (1997). Wauthaurong Too Bloody Strong: Stories and life journeys of people from Wauthaurong. Apollo Bay, Victoria: Pascoe Publishing. ISBN 094708731-1. OCLC 39078639