Walbanga

The Walbanga are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales, part of the Yuin nation.[1]

Language

The Walbanga language may have been a dialect of Dhurga.[2]

Country

Walbanga Country covers 2,500 square miles (6,500 km2) a region from Cape Dromedary northwards to the vicinity of Ulladulla. Their inland extension was as far as the Shoalhaven River. Braidwood, Araluen, and Moruya all lie on what is Walbanga land. The Murramarang and Wandandian peoples lay on their northern boundary, and to their south were the Djiringanj[3] and Thaua.[4]

Alternative names
  • Thurga (tirga, was their word for "no")
  • Thoorga
  • Bugellimanji. (A Walbanga horde
  • Bargalia
  • Moruya tribe[4]

Notes

    Citations
    1. Reconciliation Australia 2014.
    2. Dixon 2002, p. xxxv.
    3. Slattery 2015, p. 122.
    4. Tindale 1974, p. 199.

    Sources
    • Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • "Returning to country brings wellbeing". Reconciliation Australia. 6 May 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
    • Slattery, Deirdre (2015). Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. Csiro Publishing. ISBN 978-1-486-30172-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Walbanga (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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