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Gundagai lore is associated with Gundagai, Australia, a place of considerable reputed Aboriginal cultural significance, with both archaeological sites and anthropological associations related to sacred and spiritual beliefs of the local clan group and wider cultural associations. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Aunty Helen Riley is an Elder on the board of the Mingaan Wiradjari Aboriginal Corporation. The ward system originates from Scotland and Eastern England where wards, that are watchful spirits that protect settlements from internal troubles and external dangers, form nightly a ring of benevolent spiritual protection against harmful spirits. Sturt, C., Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during the years 1828,1829,1830,1831 Chapter Two, University of South Australia, ebooks, Available [online], Frazer, J.G. (ABC Central West: Xanthe Gregory) A fire hearth, Sometimes one-half of him would appear to those he chose to favour with his presence, and at other times, the other half was seen. Gundagai also has a 'Shakespeare Terrace' that runs along the Murrumbidgee floodplain below the town that may or may not refer to the amazing grand theatre corroborees that happened in that area, eagerly shared in the 1830s for the benefit of overlanders and travellers; or in reference to several or all works of Shakespeare. Royal Visitors Leave", http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24332900-5013172,00.html, "The Sydney Morning Herald. Key facts about the award The Each was associated with a particular animal or plant. [1][54], To the east of Gundagai, local Aboriginal cultural tradition traditionally ran downstream into the Murrumbidgee, then on to Gundagai rather than upstream to Tumut. Aged Man Chops Finger Off. The Wiradjuri were organised into bands. Jin were inherited from a persons mothers mother along with the responsibility for maintaining associated sites. The highway cuts through the rugged terrain ofthe New South Wales'Blue Mountainseucalypt forests and providesa major freight route from Sydney to western NSW. Willie wagtails or djirri djirris were known to listen into conversations so it was wise to not repeat confidences. Sydn", "5 Apr 1932 Man Struck Dead Gundagai, Monday", Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, "Encyclopedia: K - Kyzikos: Greek mythology, people, places and things of ancient Greece", http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/sturt/charles/s93t/, https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20142204?q=Reuss+and+Browne%27s&c=map&versionId=23744584, http://www.ozhistorymine.com/html/t__horton_james__1838.html, "19 Nov 1927 Tumut in 1832. They consulted in an undertone, and departed as sullenly and noiselessly as they came. "The project is currently exploring all suggestions and options for further mitigating environmental and cultural impacts," Mr Lunn said. In a statement, the Minister for Regional Roads and Transport Sam Farrawaysaid upgrades would ensure "the mountains and regional NSW can grow and prosper for years to come". A decisionfrom the federal environment ministerSussan Leyon those applications is still pending. [40] Beating the Bounds, the religious form of wards, is still practised in some parishes in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. During the digs the team unearthed about 3,000 artefacts, some of which have been sent to the University of Wollongong for analysis. WTOCWAC said a key finding of an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessment Report conducted in 2018 revealed that Wahluu was likely a place of mythological and spiritual importance to Wiradyuri people. Mr Carey corroborated Mrs Moroney's description of the ghost and dealt with it by hitting it on the head with a shovel the next time it paid him a visit. Their eastern borders ran from north to south from above Mudgee, down to the foothills of the Blue Mountains east of Lithgow and Oberon, and east of Cowra, Young and Tumut and south to the upper Murray at Albury and east to about Tumbarumba. [17] A terrific thunderstorm at Gundagai in March 1877 set fire to the inside of Armour's house. Wollundry Lagoon & Tony Ireland Park, Wiradjuri Reserve & Gobba Beach, Bomen Lagoon, Bomen Axe Quarry and Flowerdale Lagoon have all been declared Aboriginal Places by the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) in the Wagga Wagga area.OEH has an ongoing program of assessing and recommending the declaration and gazettal of areas as Aboriginal Places throughout NSW. Throughout that person's life, more skins were added, with the original skin eventually buried in the cloak. The tribes led by Windradyne lived in the eastern parts of this territory, connected to the other groups by a common language as well as cultural and trade links. Settlement of the new land was initially slow, but following a change of government, Governor Thomas Brisbane came to power allowing a flood of land grants to the west of the Blue Mountains. They settled around the Cudgegong River, using its resources for food, and water. An enormous influx of the British onto the Wiradjuri lands put great strain on traditional food sources, and destroyed some of the Wiradjuri social and sacred sites. The resulting roadworks would reduce travel time from about 40 to 29 minutes. [17], The Wiradjuri were also known for their handsome possum-skin cloaks stitched together from several possum furs. Dr Andrew Rawson, a researcher and soil scientist, and his colleague Rosemary Stapleton began finding the artefacts after a bushfire burnt about seventy percent of the mountain in 2018. A man with no head called 'Craypton' lived up on 'Killimicat' and would ride down the mountain of a night on a horse. [5], Tindale says that some of the later terms had entered the literature, although not based on fieldwork and lacking Aboriginal support, as artificial, collective names for his "Great Tribes" of New South Wales. [8] More attacks followed with the murder of convict hut-keepers, scattered herds and speared cattle. My father's cheerful courage and friendly tone disarmed animosity. '[19], Colonel William Stewart, appointed Head of NSW Police and Lt Governor of the Colony helped oversee some of the government response to the Bathurst Uprising. Oak groves and muses featured in some succeeding cultural depictions of Gundagai no doubt assigned by early settlers who had received the benefits of an education in the classics, such as Charles Tompson, claimed to be Australia's first published native-born poet and whose father had possession of a large tract of land at Gundagai in the 1830s; and James Macarthur son of John Macarthur, Australian wool pioneer, who met up with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Europe[35] and who with his brother William Macarthur had possession of Nangus Station at Nangus, Gundagai. Charles Sturt in Chapter Two of his Murrumbidgee exploration journal,[33] likened the 'verdant' Gundagai valley as having Diana of Nemi site parallels as recorded in James George Frazer's 'The Golden Bough',[34] when Sturt journeyed through the Gundagai area in 18291830. The Wiradjuri language was spoken across a wide area of central NSW including long segments of the Murrumbidgee, Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers. [5], Macquarie wrote: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, "We found here also three male natives and four boys of this newly discovered tract of country, who showed great surprise, mixed with no small degree of fear, at seeing so many strangers, horses and carriages but to whom they soon appeared to be reconciled on being kindly spoken to. According to oral tradition, in Mudgee, the Mowgee clan extended over a 50 km radius. These cages house trees that were scarred or carved by Wiradjuri people, some as far back as the 1800s, to make tools or to mark significant burial sites. In 1822, Wiradjuri warriors attacked a station on the Cudgegong River in which they drove away the stockman, let the cattle out of the yard and killed several of the sheep. But despite their immense Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award Australia's most prestigious writing prize, and one of its richest at $60,000 for her novel The Yield. Jimmy Clements also known as King Billy whose traditional name was 'Yangar',[3] walked forward to respectfully salute the Duke and Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), and after that the two elders were formally presented to the Royal couple as prominent citizens of Australia. o Sacred sites are places within the landscape that have a special meaning or significance under Aboriginal tradition. [59], Mrs Moroney at Jones Creek, Gundagai, was often visited by a ghost in 1873. [53], The efforts of Yarri, Jacky Jacky, and two other Indigenous men Jackie Douglas and Tommy Davis in saving many Gundagai people from the 1852 floodwaters were heroic. [18], On 13 December 1824 Governor Brisbane wrote a letter to Major J.T. from Gundagai NSW map Stock No. In 1820, the population of Bathurst was only 114 due to Macquarie's slow and cautious approach to new settlement. (From Our Own Corr", "20 Jun 1923 Ghosts at Gundagai. Elder and WTOCWAC co-director Uncle Brian Grant said a more suitable location should be identified. Sydney, Wednesday", "12 Nov 1929 Bitten by Snake. 'Gair' was recorded at Yass in 1836 by George Bennett (naturalist) and means 'bird', as in budgerigar or good bird. The Riverinas last sacred trees In a small township called Narrandera situated along the Marrambidya (Murrumbidgee River), sacred Wiradjuri trees still There were over 200 NSW police stations that employed Aboriginal trackers between 1862 and 1973. ", Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. The craftsmanship on remaining examples of this funeral artwork displays notable artistic power. By the end of the 1800s the Wiradjuri had virtually disappeared from the greater Mudgee district. Web What is a Sacred/Dreaming Site? This concept of a life force which creates all new life also explains one of the functions of religious ceremony. The ABC understands members of the Bathurst Local Aboriginal Land Council, employed by TfNSW to assist with the digs, are in discussions to re-design the stretch between Little Hartley and Lithgow. In dry seasons, they ate kangaroos, emus and food gathered from the land, including fruit, nuts, [16] Alfred William Howitt remarked that these trees incised with taphoglyphs served both as transit points to allow mythological cultural heroes to ascend to, and descend from, the firmament as well as a means for the deceased to return to the sky. "I'm not against progress. Following the successful Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth expedition to find a route through the "impenetrable" Blue Mountains in 1813, this allowed the colony to expand onto the vast fertile plains of the west. For the place, see, Suttor wrote: "These natives have some imperfect ideas of property, and the right of possession. Gundagai's rich history of song, verse, epic sagas and notable events beginning first with that of Australian Aboriginal cultural heritage then on to multiple other ontologies with the arrival of the Europeans; that are also remembered within placenames and recalled throughout landscape is evidence of the rich tapestry that is Gundagai today. Reuss & Browne's map of New South Wales and part of Queensland showing the relative positions of the pastoral runs, squattages, districts, counties, towns, reserves etc. 18601869. In late 1823, Windradyne (known as Saturday by the British) was captured for the first time. Wiradjuri resistance to European settlement in Australia, Assistant Surveyor George Evans, Journal, 21/12/1813, W.H. Whatever springs spontaneously from the earth or without labour is theirs also. Caused by Lightning. Aboriginal Places protect a range of cultural values, including former Aboriginal reserves and missions; land containing Aboriginal burials; important meeting places and ceremonial sites; important post-contact historical events, such as massacres and birthplaces of notable Aboriginal people; places with dreaming stories and other spiritual significance; and places with Aboriginal artefacts requiring special recognition and protection. | GU", "9 Nov 1929 Rides 371 Miles in 24 Hours Opperman Has Fight W", http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nswcultureheritage/AboriginalWomensHeritageBrungleTumut.htm, https://web.archive.org/web/20110327123813/http://www.cootamundra.local-e.nsw.gov.au/files/59930/File/BrochurePicturepackage.pdf, "12 Jul 1887 Country News. It included native title claimants and four local Aboriginal land councils. (From our various Corresp", "17 Jan 1925 Earth Tremor. By subscribing, you agree to SBSs terms of service and privacy policy including receiving email updates from SBS. The word 'Gundagai' is also said to mean cut with a hand-axe behind the knee. Soon after Governor Lachlan Macquarie and a large accompanying party set out to view the country. [14], The Wiradjuri continued to launch attacks on the settlers, engaging in numerous skirmishes which were consistently followed by settler reprisals, typically on Aboriginal warriors attempting to bury their casualties. The strength of these men is amazing. Bunyips, understood to be where streams flood out of their usual channel in wet seasons flooding surrounding land but also drowning anyone caught on the wrong side of them, are recorded on the Gundagai floodplain; opposite 'Kimo'; and at the junction of the Tumut and Murrumbidgee rivers. WebThe Wiradjuri people resisted, which led to open conflict from 1822-1824. The next thing known of them is that they killed all the men at a settler's place some miles distant, the very place where it was rumoured, the poisoned bread had been laid for them. [15], The Battle of Bathurst began on 10 September when a Wiradjuri war party attacked a station on the Cudgegong River, they drove off the cattle before being pursued by the station hands. They survived as skilled hunter-fisher-gatherers, in family groups or clans, and many still use knowledge of hunting and gathering techniques as part of their customary life. [37] 'Warramore' is linked to 'Warrawen', which is the large cut in the western side of the Monaro Plateau from near which western travelling geological fault lines begin, and 'Warragong', which is the section of the beginning of the Australian Alps in the Gundagai region upon which snow sometimes falls. Gundagai lore is associated with Gundagai, Australia, a place of considerable reputed Aboriginal cultural significance, with both archaeological sites and anthropological associations related to sacred and spiritual beliefs of the local clan group and wider cultural associations. The Sydney Gazette described the situation in the following: Advices from Bathurst say that the natives have been very troublesome in that country. [29] The figure has a kangaroo or dog-like head and is several kilometres in length. Gundagai Shire Council also had a ward system of Municipal Governance until recent times. The image faces to the west and its head is near the Dog on the Tuckerbox area at Gundagai. Two Pictures", http://sharepoint.anglicancg.org.au/Publib/Documents/Media/Anglican%20News/Anglican%20News%20August%202009.pdf, https://books.google.com/books?id=vhQ9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=The+Parish+Chest+Tate&source=bl&ots=dMqianN4bR&sig=dKa_2WujoO0IDX5-VHGuzgGW2A4&hl=en&ei=CyuVToiJOcyOiAe6qMiHBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false, http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2010/D04795/a2078.pdf, "20 Sep 1947 Bunyip Hunters at Gundagai", "24 Oct 1868 Opening of the New South Wales Parliament. The Mt Panorama race track, well known for hosting the Bathurst 1000, was opened in 1938, following two years of construction. Settlement also restricted access to some Wiradjuri sacred sites. [11], Similar to other inland areas in Australia, the Gundagai area has often been visited by tornadoes, particularly in dry times. There are, however, numerous traces of their extensive occupation of the land. Tuesday, August 30, 1", "Severe Storm at Gundagai. [12][13] There has also been numerous reports of earth tremors rattling through Gundagai since European settlement.[14][15][16]. For Wiradyuri people, the connection to Wahluu spans much further, with a creation story of a young warrior killed by his brother, which has been passed down for generations. [26] There has been other victims of lightning in the Gundagai area due to the ferocity of thunderstorms that can happen locally. Mr Williams said. The film describes a field of mutual respect that is the Wiradjuri way of life. One of the survivors of this misunderstanding was Windradyne; enraged at the attack he and his warriors immediately began a series of violent attacks against nearby stations.[10]. WebThe Wiradjuri people lived within the area that was known as the Wiradjuri Nation. [51] A man was bitten on the finger by a snake in 1929 but couldn't get the snake to let go. Declaring an area an Aboriginal Place is a way of formally recognising the cultural attachment Aboriginal people have to land, to Country. All that material has been gathered into an online exhibition which can be found at theAIATSIS website. [9], In early 1824, on the river flats opposite of the town of Bathurst, a farmer in a friendly gesture offered a group of passing Wiradjuri people some potatoes. [1], The Murray River forms the Wiradjuri's southern boundary and the change from woodland to open grassland marks their eastern boundary. Key points: The Australian Museum is processing an application to They roamed throughout the OConnell, Bathurst and Macquarie Plains and along the Wambool (Macquarie) River and one estimate, recorded in 1824, numbered 600 to 700 people. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [62] 'Kimo Hill' is a child hill of the 'Kimo Range' that has become distanced from its mother hill, 'Mount Kimo', on the northern end of the Sheahan Bridge at North Gundagai. [58], Gundagai has recorded several ghost and will-o'-the-wisp sightings. 73-74Available [online], George Augustus Robinson 'Report of a Journey of two thousand two hundred miles to the Tribes of the Coast and Eastern Interior during the year 1844', ca.1844, MLMSS 7335, State Library of NSW, Available [online], 'Parkes, W. 1952, Letter to Tindale from Parkes, Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Manuscript Collection, database 162, p.96, Department of Environment and Conservation NSW, 2004, 'Aboriginal Women's Heritage: Brungle and Tumut', Department of Environment and Conservation NSW, p.42. Declaration of an area as an Aboriginal Place gives landholders and the whole community benefits by providing: Bomen Axe Quarry Report 2.1 MB Download. [18] In November 1899, a man named Caigan was struck by lightning and killed as he sheltered in a hollow log. The Wiradjuri leader, Windradyne, led attacks on white settlers, during which time approximately 20 settlers and 100 Aboriginal people were killed, and which culminated in the Battle of Bathurst on 18 September 1824, where several hundred Wiradjuri people were killed. Numbers of cattle have been killed. Since the first race, the track has attracted tens of thousands of motor sport spectators each year. Wagga Wagga sunset. The historical records, original deeds and agreements are held by the family at "Strath" Bathurst. ); Booandik (Vic. The Wiradjuri nation was split and sub-split into many tribes. [41] Cursed is he who transgresseth the bounds or doles of his neighbour. The floodplains of the Murrumbidgee below the present town of Gundagai were a frequent meeting place of Wiradjuri speaking people from nearby regions. The development application for the go-kart track was approved by the Bathurst Regional Council in January last year, but Wiradyuri Traditional Owners have urged it to reconsider the proposed location for the development. Mudgee Historical Society Inc. | Copyright 2023. The name 'Warramore', is given for Stuckey's Station in 1836 at today's Gundagai. This primary landscape figure marked out by the course of the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai, is replicated in some Sydney Rock Engravings and recorded in local Aboriginal cultural heritage. This area was well watered with a bountiful supply of native animals and plants which were used as the Wiradjuris food source. J. [57] The Mirriyolla Ghost Dog is also known of in Cootamundra a few miles to the north-west of Gundagai and lives in the Bethungra Range that is partly in Gundagai Shire. WebSacred sites. [citation needed] By early 1824, war had broken out in which the Wiradjuri adopted a guerrilla-style approach. He said 34 local knowledge holders are helping the government ensure all discoveries are handled appropriately. Morisset, Commandant at Bathurst, thanking him for effecting 'the purpose of the proclamationby the judicious measures taken by you and the other magistrates at Bathurst, the aboriginal natives have learned to respect our power.' [8] A meteor seen at Gundagai on New Year's Day, 1876 was reported to have lit up the streets as though with magnesium wire,[9] and over four inches of rain fell in two hours during a dreadful storm at Gundagai in 1885. Bolstered by a local settler militia, the detachment began conducting several sweeps across the landscape to restore order and enforce martial law. Wiradjuri territory was first penetrated by British colonists in 1813. He writes that there was such a "literary need for major groupings that [Fraser] set out to provide them for New South Wales, coining entirely artificial terms for his 'Great tribes'. 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[52] Also in 1929, Hubert Opperman famous cyclist, had a tiger snake encounter at Gundagai. In 1923, a Ghost Ball was held in the Gundagai hall with dancers clad in white costume. On the death of a distinguished Wiradjuri, initiated men would strip the bark off a tree to allow them to incise symbols on the side of the trunk which faced the burial mound. This ghost dog hunts on just one night a year, the longest night. Placenames such as that of Virgil Street that ascends Gundagai's Mount Parnassus lead to sites in the local landscape that for example invoke Virgil's 'Aeneid', viz there the fearsome cavern of the awesome Sybil lies, Whence came her prophecies. [63], A young lady, Bridget Moran drowned herself in Morley's Creek near the old Gundagai Flour Mill, in 1887[64] and ever since, some people when walking past the mill report seeing the image of a sad young woman looking out from the upper windows of the building. A team of archaeologists and registered Aboriginal parties conducted preliminary digs last year. The status, use or ownership of an area does not change as a result of a declaration but culture and heritage is recognised and protected.. The Wiradjuri autonym is derived from wirraay, meaning "no" or "not", with the comitative suffix -dhuurray or -juuray meaning "having". "[13], A 75-strong detachment of the 40th Regiment of Foot under the command of Major James Thomas Morisset was sent to garrison Bathurst. (From the Gun", "18 Nov 1899 The Sydney Morning Herald. In the 21st century, major Wiradjuri groups live in Condobolin, Peak Hill, Narrandera and Griffith. [3] That the Wiradjuri said wirraay, as opposed to some other word for "no", was seen as a distinctive feature of their speech, and several other tribes in New South Wales, to the west of the Great Dividing Range, are similarly named after their own words for "no". In response, the Wiradjuri resistance was born. Gundagai also has a long and strong oral tradition of folklore particular to place that in no small way is due to the site of Gundagai and its many thousands of years long occupation by Australian Aboriginal people being the original foundation population that holds continuing traditional custodianship of place. Today the great wealth that came to Stewart and his descendants continues to be seen in the form of Abercrombie House that was later built on the land grant. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Provides opportunities for the community to engage in conservation, site protection and management, including through the intergenerational transfer of culture and economic opportunities where appropriate. WebBrungle east of Wagga - sacred Wiradjuri place. [16] In an ambush, the stationhands were chased back and in the retreat three Wiradjuri warriors were shot. [67] The Right Reverend Trevor Edwards Vicar General of the Anglican Church and Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, commented in September 2011, on the stories held within the walls of St John's Church Gundagai when he led the commemoration of the laying of the foundation stone of that church in 1861[43] Outside the walls of the St John's church at Gundagai are also the stories of multiple events and aspects of culture not the least the two oak trees outside the Anglican Rectory. 'Kimo' is 'Mt Kimo', named for one of the Nereids, (Nereids, Cymatolege or 'Kymo'[32]), that occupies the midpoint of the 'Kimo Range', facing Gundagai High School. Condobolin southwards to Booligal, Carrathool, Wagga Wagga, Cootamundra, Parkes, Trundle; Gundagai, Boorowa, and Rylstone, Wellington, and Carcoar all lay within Wiradjuri territory. Wiradyuri community members have expressed their concerns over a plan to construct a new go-kart track on an area of Wahluu (Mount Panorama) that Traditional Owners say is a sacred women's site. Darren Wighton and Trevor Leaman are sharing the stars' After 21 days of traveling through 50 miles (80km) of rugged terrain, the party reached Mount Blaxland. [31], The area is also identified as Jones Creek diorite. In that context 'Gundagai' means place of birds but that placename may refer to the area to the north of Gundagai not to Gundagai town. Will is a wicked blacksmith who is given a second chance by Saint Peter at the gates to Heaven, but leads such a bad life that he ends up being doomed to wander the Earth. To give an example of the marriage rules, Murri emu could marry Ippatha eaglehawk, Ippatha possum, Matha brown snake and Kubbitha native bee (Mathews 1897: 173-174).[/ref]. 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