south central Victoria.
The Kulin nation is an alliance of five Aboriginal nations in south central Victoria, Australia. Their collective territory extends around Port Phillip and Western Port, up into the Great Dividing Range and the Loddon and Goulburn River valleys.
What area of Victoria are the Wurundjeri people from?
Before European settlement, the Aboriginal people of the Wurundjeri willum clan lived on the land that now forms the City of Whittlesea and the northern suburbs of Melbourne. They lived on the offshoots of the Yarra River – along the Merri, Edgars and Darebin Creeks – the Plenty River and the Maribyrnong River.
Is Melbourne in Kulin Nation?
The traditional Aboriginal name of Melbourne is Naarm and Naarm is the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation. The Kulin Nation is a collective of five Aboriginal clans: Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Wathaurrung, Taungurung and Dja DjaWrung.
Where is Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation?
Yarra River
The Wurundjeri people are an Australian Aboriginal people of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation. They are the Traditional Owners of the Birrarung (Yarra River) Valley, covering much of the present location of Narrm (Melbourne). They continue to live in this area and throughout Australia.
What are the 5 Kulin nations?
About the Kulin Nations
- Boonwurrung (Boon-wur-rung)
- Dja Dja Wurrung (Jar-Jar-Wur-rung)
- Taungurung (Tung-ger-rung)
- Wathaurung (Wath-er-rung)
- Woiwurrung (Woy-wur-rung), commonly known as Wurundjeri.
Is Melbourne Wurundjeri land?
The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.
How do I acknowledge country Wurundjeri?
Example 2 – I would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people who are the Traditional Custodians of this Land. I would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present of the Kulin Nation and extend that respect to other Indigenous Australians present.
Is the Kulin Nation all of Victoria?
The Kulin nation is an alliance of five Aboriginal nations in south central Victoria, Australia. Their collective territory extends around Port Phillip and Western Port, up into the Great Dividing Range and the Loddon and Goulburn River valleys.
Is Melbourne Woi wurrung or Wurundjeri?
The place we know as Melbourne is part of the country claimed by the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung Nations. The Woi wurrung Nation consists of the land of the Yarra drainage basin. The clans who dwelt along the river near the site of Melbourne are known as the Wurundjeri people.
Does the Kulin Nation still exist?
Today Kulin people continue to live, practice and strengthen their culture in urban Melbourne and central Victoria. Eidelson, M. 1997. The Melbourne Dreaming.
Who is apart of the Kulin Nation?
The Taungurung people are closely affiliated with their neighbouring tribes through language, ceremonies and kinship ties. We are part of an alliance with the five adjoining tribes to form the Kulin Nation. Other members of the Kulin Nation are the Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung, Wathaurung and Djadjawurrung.
Is Geelong in the Kulin Nation?
The Wathaurong nation, also called the Wathaurung, Wadawurrung and Wadda Wurrung, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula in the state of Victoria. They are part of the Kulin alliance.
Which clans were part of the Kulin Nation?
The Eastern Kulin nation consists of five major clans – the Boon wurrung, Woi wurrung, Taung wurrung, Ngurai-illum wurrung and Wutha wurrung.
How do you say hello in Kulin Nation?
Wominjeka means Hello/Welcome in the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people of Kulin Nation – the traditional owners of Melbourne.
Which caste is Kulin?
Kulin Kayasthas are a sub-caste of the Kayastha caste in West Bengal, India. They are also known as the Kulina Kayasthas. The Kayasthas are regarded in Bengal, along with the Brahmins and Baidyas, as being the “highest Hindu castes”.
What language does the Kulin Nation speak?
Boon Wurrung is the language spoken by one of the five tribes of the Kulin Nation. It shares over 90 per cent of its vocabulary with the Woiwurrung language.
Is Melbourne Naarm or Woiworung?
Naarm (Melbourne): Naarm is the Woiworung name for Melbourne. Naarm was an important meeting place for the language groups of the Kulin nation.
Is Melton a Wurundjeri?
Woiwurrung is the language of all of these clans, and today we are known under the umbrella term of Wurundjeri. Within Wurundjeri there are patrilines, the Wurundjeri-wilam and Wurundjeri-baluk. The clans around Melton are the Kurung Jang balluk and the Gunung- Willum-balluk.
Why is Melbourne being called Naarm?
Why Narrm? Narrm is the traditional Aboriginal name for Melbourne. Narrm encompasses* the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation. The Kulin Nation is a collection of five Aboriginal nations: the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Wathaurrung, Taungurung and Dja Dja Wurrung.
What does Wurundjeri mean in English?
The Wurundjeri People take their name from the Woiwurrung language word ‘wurun’ meaning the Manna Gum (Eucalyptus viminalis) which is common along ‘Birrarung’ (Yarra River), and ‘djeri’, the grub which is found in or near the tree.
What is the language of the Wurundjeri?
Woi wurrung
Woi wurrung is the language of the Wurundjeri People.