What suburbs are Wurundjeri land?
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 North Melbourne Wurundjeri land?
The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Which area of Victoria was traditionally Wurundjeri land?
City of Yarra
The Wurundjeri-willam people of the Kulin Nation are the Traditional Owners of the land that is now known as the City of Yarra. Their relationship with the land extends back tens of thousands of years to when their creator spirit ‘Bunjil’ formed their people, the land and all living things.
Is Melbourne Wurundjeri country?
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 nations: Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Wathaurrung, Daungwurrung and Dja DjaWrung.
What Aboriginal land is Brunswick on?
Early history. Brunswick is in the area known as Iramoo by the Aboriginal people who inhabited and hunted in it. It was occupied by the Wurundjeri people who spoke the Woiwurrung dialect.
What Aboriginal land is Collingwood on?
The Collingwood Children’s Farm respectfully acknowledges the Wurunderi Woi Wurrung people as the First Nations people of the Abbortsford Precinct Heritage Farmlands, the lands we respect, care for and farm on behalf of all Victorians.
What Aboriginal land is Northcote on?
the Wurundjeri people
The area now known as Northcote is on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people. According to the Darebin Historical Encyclopedia, European settlers knew the Wurundjeri as the ‘Yarra’ tribe.
What Aboriginal land is Croydon Victoria on?
We, in the spirit of Reconciliation, acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land now known as the City of Maroondah, where Indigenous Australians have performed age-old ceremonies.
Is Fitzroy Wurundjeri land?
We, at Fitzroy North Primary School, would like to show our respect and acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which our school is situated, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, of elders past and present. We extend a warm welcome to everyone who visits our school.
Is Fitzroy a Wurundjeri?
According to the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council, which is responsible for appointing the official Registered Aboriginal Parties (land councils) for particular areas, both the Wurundjeri and Bunurong people claim Fitzroy as their land.
What Aboriginal land is Coburg?
The Wurundjeri Woi wurrung people and the land we now call Moreland. The area we know today as Moreland was, for tens of thousands of years, a sparsely wooded forest with native grasslands that was governed by the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung people.
Where is the Wurundjeri area?
The Wurundjeri are an Australian Aboriginal people of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation. They occupied the Birrarung (Yarra River) Valley before British settlement of the area, around the present location of Melbourne, and were called the Yarra tribe by the settlers.
