Friday, June 22, 2012

RAMINDJERI INDIANS IN AUSTRALIA

RAMINDJERI ARE IN A CLAN OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE FORMING PART OF THE KUKEBRAT SINCE POPULARIZED DUE TO THE C19TH MISSIONARY REVEREND GEORGE TAPLIN. THEIR LAND IS NGARRINDJERI LAND. RAMINDJERI WERE THE FIRST ABORIGINALS TO MEET THE 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.

RAMINDERJERI ASSET A HISTORICAL TERRITORY INCLUDING KANGAROO ISLAND, AND EARLIER THE RIVER TORRENS. THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE OF CONTINUAL OCCUPATION ON KANGAROO ISLAND.THEY HAD A COMPLETE SEPARATION FROM THE MAINLAND 11,000 YEARS AGO.. SEVERAL SMALL SITES SEPARATED 6000 YEARS AGO HAVE BEEN FOUND. THEY BELONGED TO REMNANT POPULATION OF UP TO 200 INDIVIDUALS WITH THE LAST DYING UP TO 2500 YEARS AGO. LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT ABORIGINALS ENCOUNTERED A COLONEL IN 1836. RAMIDJERIA FULL MOON CEREMONY AT CEREMONY AT ONKUPARINGA IN 1837.

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

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