NGARRINDJERRI INDIANS IN AUSTRALIA

NGARRINDJERI IS THE NAME OF A LANGUAGE GROUP IN SOUTH CENTRAL AUSTRAILIA AND CAPE JERIS.
WHALERS AND SEALERS HAD BEEN VISITINGTHE SOUTH CENTRAL COAST SINCE 1802 AND BY 1819 THERE WAS A PERMANENT CAMP ON KANGAROO ISLAND. MANY OF THESE MEN WERE CONVICTS SINCE 1802 AND BY 1819 THERE WAS SUCH A PERMANENT CAMP ON KANGAROO ISLAND. MANY OF THE MEN WERE CONVICTS WHO BROUGHT TASMANIAN WOMEN WITH THEM AND THEY RAIDED AUSTRALIA FOR WOMEN.

ORIGINALLY THE MOST HEAVILY POPULATED AREA IN AUSTRALIA HAD SMALLPOX EPIDEMICS AND TRAVELED DOWN MURRAY RIVER BEFORE COLONIALIZATION. THIS EPIDEMIC KILLED A MAJORITY OF THESE INDIANS. FUNERAL RITES AND CULTURAL PRACTICES WERE DISRUPTED AND CLANS MERGED AND LAND USE ALTERED. SONGS FROM THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC WERE BORN, BY 1830 AN EXPEDITION TO THESE PEOPLE NOTED THAT THEY ALREADY WERE FAMILIAR WITH FIREARMS.

THEIR POPULATION WAS ONLY 6000 AT THE TIME OF THE WHITE SETTLEMENT IN 1836 DUE TO THE EPIDEMIC. THEY ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN AUSTRAILIA WHOSE LAND LAY WITHIN 62 MILES OF THE CAPITAL CITY TO SURVIVE AS A DISTINCT CAPITAL.

THE PEOPLE WHO BELONG TO THIS TRIBE ARE A NATION WHO BELONG TO THIS TRIBE ARE A NATION OF 18 TRIBES. THEY HAVE FAMILY CLANS WHO SPEAK SIMILAR DIALECTS OF THE NORTH GARRINDEJERA LANGUAGE. THEY HAVE TRADITIONAL ABORIGINAL STORIES OF THE MURRAY RIVER, WESTERN PENNISULA AND CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.

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