Tuesday, June 19, 2012

RAMINDJERI INDIANS IN AUSTRALIA

RAMINDJERI ARE A CLAN OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE FORMING PART OF THE KUKEBRAK SINCE POPULARIZED DUE TO THE C 19TH MISSIONARY IN REVEREND GEORGE TAPLIN. THERE LAND IS NGARRINDJERI.
RAMINDJERI LAND IS PART OF NGARRINDJERI LAND. THESE FOLKS WERE THE FIRST TO TOMEET EUROPEANS. IN 1802. THEY RAIDED THE RAMINDJERI ISLANDS FOR WOMEN IN THE 1900'S. RAMINDJERI MEN BEGAN WORKING AS WHALERS IN ENCOUNTER BAY IN 1830'S.

RAMINDJERI HAVE AN ASSET OF A HISTORICAL ERRITORY INCLUDING KANGAROO ISLAND, AND EARLIER THE RIVER TORRENS. THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE OF CONTINUAL OCCUPATION ON KANGAROO ISLAND EARLIER THAN THE COMPLETE SEPARATION OF THE ISLAND FROM THE MAINLAND 11,000 YEARS AGO. SEVERAL SMALL SITES SEPARATED 6,000 YEARS AGO AND HAVE BEEN FOUND. THEY BELONGED TO A REMNANT POPULATION OF UP TO 200 INDIVIDUALS AND THE SITE WAS DATED TO ABOUT 2500 YEARS AGO. LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT ABORIGINALS ENCOUNTERED A COLONEL IN 1836. RAMIDJERI WERE HOLDING A FULL MOON CEREMONY AT ONKAPARINGA IN 1837.

THEY HAD 6 CLANS BY 1930'S. THEY HAD 6 CLANS BY 1930'S. THE RAIMIDJERI OCCUPIED THE COAST FROM CAPE JERVIS TO SOUTH OF ADELAIDE. THE CLANS MAY HAVE EXPANDED ALONG TRADE ROUTES.

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