The land in the Ingleburn area was originally inhabited by the Tharawal people prior to the arrival of settlers from the First Fleet in 1788. The first land grants in the area were made in 1809 to William Neale, Joshua Alliot, all previously soldiers in the NSW Corps. As such, the area became known as "Soldier Flat".
What is Dharawal country?
The Dharawal, or Tharawal are indigenous or Aboriginal people of Australia, identified by the Dharawal (or Tharawal) language. Traditionally, they lived as hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans with ties of kinship, scattered along the coastal area of what is now the Sydney basin in New South Wales.
What Aboriginal nation is Campbelltown?
The area known as Campbelltown City is located on the custodial lands of the Dharawal people and there are many reminders of their traditional and ongoing connection to the land.
Who are the traditional owners of Campbelltown?
In what is now known as the Macarthur region, the Dharawal people continue to be acknowledged as the Traditional Custodians. Dharawal people cared for and inhabited land from Botany Bay to the Shoalhaven River and Nowra and inland to Camden. A traditional totem of the area is recognised as the lyrebird.
Where is the Gadigal land?
The Cadigal, also spelled as Gadigal and Caddiegal, are a group of Indigenous people whose traditional lands are located in Gadi, on Eora country, the location of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
18 related questions foundWhat Aboriginal land is Ryde on?
Wallumedegal. Aboriginal people lived for thousands of years in what we call the City of Ryde. When the first Europeans settled at Sydney Cove in 1788 the traditional owners of this area were the Wallumedegal.
What Aboriginal land is Melbourne on?
The traditional Aboriginal name of Melbourne is Naarm and Naarm is the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation.
What Aboriginal land is Macquarie Fields on?
The original inhabitants of the Macquarie Fields area were the Darug people of western Sydney.
Where is the Wiradjuri tribe located?
The Wiradjuri are the largest Aboriginal group in central New South Wales, by area and population. The people of the Wiradjuri country are known as “people of three rivers” being the Macquarie river (Wambool), Lachlan River (Kalari) and the Murrumbidgee River (Murrumbidjeri) which border their lands.
What Aboriginal land Am I on Wollongong?
The area we know today as Wollongong was originally inhabited by the Dharawal people (also spelled Tarawal or Thuruwal), who remain the Traditional Custodians of this land. The name Wollongong is said to originate from the Aboriginal word woolyungah, meaning five islands.
What Aboriginal land is Sutherland Shire?
Sutherland Shire Council acknowledges the Dharawal speaking people who are the Traditional Custodians of the land of Sutherland Shire. Council pays respect to the Elders past and present of the Dharawal nation and extends that respect to other Aboriginal people visiting this site.
What Aboriginal land is Helensburgh on?
Helensburgh is located in the far north of the Wollongong Local Government Area, near the Royal National Park. Local communities of Aboriginal people were the original inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of Illawarra Land.
What Aboriginal land is Peakhurst NSW on?
Acknowledgement of Country
Peakhurst Public School acknowledges the people of the Tharawal Nation, who are the traditional custodians of the land on which the school is built.
What Aboriginal land is Dubbo on?
Aboriginal Culture
The Tubbagah People of the Wiradjuri Nation are Dubbo's traditional owners. With Aboriginal people making up 10 per cent of the local population (2006 Census), you'll find many iconic events, sites and landmarks across the City that represent Aboriginal tradition and heritage.
Where is the Wiradjuri tribe located in NSW?
The Wiradjuri Nation is geographically the largest Indigenous Nation within NSW and it's probably the largest in terms of population. The boundary of the Wiradjuri Nation extends from Coonabarabran in the north, straddling the Great Dividing Range down to the Murray River and out to western NSW.
What Aboriginal land is Bathurst on?
Wiradjuri country is the largest in NSW, stretching from the eastern boundary of the Great Dividing Range. Drawing a line from the present towns of Hay and Nyngan approximates the western boundary.
What LGA is Macquarie Fields in?
Macquarie Fields is located 38 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Campbelltown and is part of the Macarthur region.
Which council is Macquarie field?
Macquarie Field - Lake Macquarie City Council.
What Aboriginal land is Brunswick?
Ten previously forgotten Aboriginal names for 19th century sites and suburbs of Melbourne have been recently unearthed at the Melbourne Museum. These include the names for Fitzroy (Ngár-go), Richmond (Quo-yung), Collingwood (Yálla-birr-ang) and Brunswick (Bulleke-bek).
What Aboriginal land is Dandenong on?
Aboriginal peoples of the Kulin Nations are the Traditional Custodians of the lands now named City of Greater Dandenong.
Which Aboriginal land is Putney on?
The Wallumettagal or Wallumedegal (derived from wallumai, meaning snapper (fish)) tribe was an indigenous Aboriginal tribe that inhabited the area of Sydney today known as the Ryde–Hunters Hill area of the Northern Suburbs.
What is the Aboriginal name for Parramatta?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Burramattagal is thought to be derived from the Aboriginal word for 'place where the eels lie down' to breed (within the Parramatta River).
What Aboriginal land is Parramatta on?
Parramatta Park was part of the traditional lands of the Burramattagal people and remains so today.
What Aboriginal land is St Leonards on?
The Cammeraygal people lived in the area until the 1820s and are recorded as being in the northern parts of the Sydney region for approximately 5,800 years.
