Werribee was established as an agricultural settlement in the 1850s, originally named Wyndham and was renamed Werribee (derived from the aboriginal name meaning 'backbone' or 'spine' in reference to the river's shape as it meanders through the commercial center) in 1904.
The name "Werribee" originated from the Victorian Aboriginal name for the Werribee River, Wirribi-yaluk in Wathawurrung and Boonwurrung, wirribi meaning "backbone" or "spine".
Recently the State Government Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council assigned the cultural heritage management of Werribee to the Bunurong Aboriginal Land Council. The name Werribee means 'backbone' or 'spine' in traditional language.
Its current name comes from the Aboriginal words Weariby (spine) and Yallock (stream), with the spelling later changed to Werribee. Europeans settled in the area in the mid-1830s.
The Wyndham area is rich and diverse in its Aboriginal history and was inhabited by the Bunurong and Wadawurrung People who also belong to the Kulin Nation. There are five different language groups in the Kulin Nation that are particular to this region. These groups operated within their own tribal boundaries.
Governor Richard Bourke names Geelong, with the name derived from the local Wathaurong / Wadawurrung Aboriginal name for the region, Djillong, which was understood to mean 'tongue of land'.
Gubbi Gubbi Country includes the areas of Petrie, Redcliffe, Caboolture, Bribie Island, Sunshine Coast and hinterlands, Noosa, Rainbow Beach, Hervey Bay, Maryborough and Gympie.
We acknowledge the Bunurong and Wadawurrung Peoples as Traditional Owners of the lands on which Wyndham City operates. The Wadawurrung and Bunurong Peoples have and always will belong to the Werribee Yalook (river), creeks, stars, hills and red clay of this Country.
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).
John Helder Wedge settled in April 1836 ,and shortly after his brother Edward Davy Wedge. He built his homestead close to Werribee River and brought in 2,600 sheep and a dozen cattle. James Simpson - Settled on the opposite bank of Werribee River from Wedge.
The Wadawurrung nation, also called the Wathaurong, Wathaurung, and Wadda Wurrung, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula in the state of Victoria.
Boon wurrung (Bunurong) are a Kulin group from the east of Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Cape Liptrap and surrounding areas. The only known Boon wurrung (Bunurong) apical ancestors with living descendents are believed to be women who were abducted by sealers in the early 18th century.
4. Is it Wadawurrung, Wathawurrung or Wathaurong? As Australian Aboriginal languages were oral, not written languages, there is no “correct” spelling of any Aboriginal words. Therefore, over time, different groups of people have changed the spelling of Wadawurrung to best reflect the way it is pronounced.
Tarneit was named when it was surveyed in 1839–1840 and comes from the Wathaurong word for the colour white. The road network was largely planned in a square mile grid pattern and still forms the basis of the arterial road network today.
The Kulin are a federation of five distinct but strongly related communities. They prospered in approximately two million hectares of what is now known as south central Victoria. of the northwest region (Loddon River).
Wadawurrung covers areas of Pyrenees, Ballarat, Golden Plains, Greater Geelong, Moorabool, Wyndham, Ararat Rural, Corangamite, Melton, Surf Coast and Queenscliffe.
The largest populations live in the western suburbs and the NSW Central Coast. Among Sydney's local council areas, Penrith has the biggest Indigenous population, with 9500 people, or 4.8 per cent of the total identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
The Northern Territory has the highest proportion of Indigenous residents among its population – an estimated 32% (79,000 people) in 2022 (Figure 2).
The area is also known locally as Mparntwe to its original inhabitants, the Arrernte, who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for tens of thousands of years. Alice Springs had an urban population of 25,912 in August 2021.
Contact a First Nations Languages Group in your local area. Consult the AIATSIS Map (1994) which attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia. Prioritise search results that source First Nations Organisation websites such as Aboriginal Land Councils.
The traditional Aboriginal name of Melbourne is Naarm and Naarm is the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation.
The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Gubbi Gubbi people – their official name - shown in early history books, articles and present day (2021) land claims. Kabi Kabi is also used by many and claims respectfully acknowledge both Gubbi Gubbi and Kabi Kabi.
Gubbi was earlier known by the name Amaragonda.
Traditionally Gubbi Gubbi people believed that every animal, bird and rock that belonged to their group's totem was in fact the actual living spirit of an ancestor. As a result each member felt a definite kinship with that species.