GUADANGARS INDIANS IN AUSTRALIA

GUADANGARS INDIANS ARE A CLAN IN SOUTHWEST NEW SOUTH WALES. IN 1803 EXPLORER FRANCIS BARRALLIERMILT OF THE GANDANGARA PEOPLE MOVED SOUTHWEST OF SYDNEY WHEN THE YERRANDERIE LIVE. THE GUNDANGARA BUILD HUTS FOR STRANGERS THEY WISH TO RECEIVE AS FRIENDS.

IN 1816 14 ABORIGINES WERE KILLED BY TROOPS WHO WERE SENT TO THE GOVERNOR. THE GUANDANGARS KILLED WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THE EARLY ATTACKS. IN 1828 THE ABORIGINES WERE BUILDING A ROAD AND SINGING SONGS. THE GUADANGARS WERE GUIDES FOR THE THE SURVEY OF THE ROAD. IN 1846 - 1847 THEY HAD AN EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA. IN 1848 THE GOUDBURN BEM HAD ONLY 25 ABORIGINES.

THE GUADANGARS BELIEVED IN ANIMAL PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN DREAMING AND WERE KNOWN AS BURRINGLING. THEY LIVED IN THE CLOUDS, MOUNTAINS, DENSE SCRUB, TREES OR WATER HOLES. SOME COULD CHANGE THE SHAPE OF THEIR BODIES, DISAPPEAR OR CHANGE THEIR LANDSCAPE. SOME HAD MAGICAL WEAPONS AND CEREMONY THEY CARRIED OUT.

THEY HAD RUGS PLACED OVER THEIR HEADS AND TOES AND IT CAUSED THEM TO SEE NOTHING.THE MAIN MAN WHO DIRECTED THE THE INITIATION CAUGHT A BOY AND HIT HIM ON HIS HEAD CAUSING A TOOTH TO FALL OUT. IT TURNED INTO STONE FOR THESE CEREMONIES.

THIS INITIATION DIRECTOR CAN BE TRANSLATED "WALKING TOGETHER". THEY BURIED THEIR DEAD IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION.. IMPORTANT FOLKS WERE WRAPPED IN BARK AND PLACED IN OR SURROUNDED BY CARVED TREES.

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