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The Gandangara people, also spelt Gundungara, Gandangarra, Gundungurra and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. Their traditional lands include present day Goulburn , Wollondilly Shire, The Blue Mountains and the Southern Highlands .
The Three Sisters are an unusual rock formation in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, on the north escarpment of the Jamison Valley. They are located close to the town of Katoomba and are one of the Blue Mountains' best known sites, towering above the Jamison Valley. [1] Their names are Meehni (922 m), Wimlah (918 m), and ...
The Dharug language, now in a period of revitalization, is generally considered one of two dialects, inland and coastal, constituting a single language. [2] [3] The word myall, a pejorative word in Australian dialect denoting any Aboriginal person who kept up a traditional way of life, [4] originally came from the Dharug language term mayal, which denoted any person hailing from another tribe.
The New Deal for Aborigines, announced by the federal government in 1938, divided Aboriginal people into four categories – myalls ("aboriginals in their native state"), semi-detribalised, fully detribalised, and half-caste (mixed race). [8] [9] Explicit references to Aboriginal people in the constitution were removed by the 1967 referendum.
Aṉangu is the name used by members of several Aboriginal Australian groups, roughly approximate to the Western Desert cultural bloc, to describe themselves. The term, which embraces several distinct "tribes" or peoples, in particular the Ngaanyatjarra , Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara groups, is pronounced with the stress on the first ...
^ 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.
In 1826 many Aboriginal people at Lake George protested an incident involving a shepherd and an Aboriginal woman, though the protesters moved away peacefully. [ 8 ] Historical records of Australia record the last " full-blooded " Ngunnawal person, Nellie Hamilton, dying in 1897, however, this is disputed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...
Gundungurra Tribal Council Aboriginal Corporation has had a registered Native Title Claim since 1995 over their traditional lands which include the Blue Mountains and surrounding areas. Katoomba is the home of local community radio station 89.1 Radio Blue Mountains. The local cinema is called The Edge, located on the Great Western Highway.