Ngooraialum
Ngooraialum were an Australian Aboriginal tribe in central Victoria.[1] They occupied the land along the Goulburn River[2] (which they called Waaring) immediately above Toolamba and centered on Noorillim.
It is estimated that they numbered only 200 persons in 1841.[3][4]
The neighbouring Bangerang tribe, with whom there were some hostilities, called them Ooraialum. They said of the Bangerang tribe that they were people of the Waaring (Goulburn River) but never referred to themselves as such. It is inferred from this that they had arrived from some other area, possibly Swan Hill.[5]
They had occasionally conflict,[6] intermarriage[5] and trade[7] with their neighbours.
They spoke a dialect of the Aboriginal Daungwurrung language, part of the Kulin branch of the Pama-Nyungan, which is classified as a nearly extinct language of Australia, though currently in the revitalization process.[8] They called the Goulurn River Warring meaning "big or large water".[9]
Today, many Ngooraialum in the Goulburn Valley live in Rumbalara[10] a settlement built in 1958 to replace a shanty town on the edge of Shepparton.[11]
References
- ^ Tongala Run .
- ^ Raymond West, Those Were the Days: A Story of Shepparton, Victoria, and to Some Extent, Its District (Waterwheel Press, 1962).
- ^ The First Inhabitants of the Arcadia Area.
- ^ History of Murchison.
- ^ a b Samuel Furphy, Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History (ANU E Press, 2013) p145.
- ^ Mark W Allen, Terry L Jones, Violence and Warfare Among Hunter-Gatherers (Left Coast Press, 2014) p118.
- ^ David Frankel, Janine Major, Kulin and Kurnai (Lulu.com, 2014) p731.
- ^ "Daungwurrung - MultiTree". multitree.org. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ "Goulburn River: 3776: Historical Information: Warring". 12 August 2011. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ Welcome to Rumbalara.
- ^ Allom Lovell & Associates, City of Greater Shepparton Heritage Study voulume 2 p3.