Oak groves and muses featured in some succeeding cultural depictions of Gundagai no doubt assigned by early settlers who had received the benefits of an education in the classics, such as Charles Tompson, claimed to be Australia's first published native-born poet and whose father had possession of a large tract of land at Gundagai in the 1830s; and James Macarthur son of John Macarthur, Australian wool pioneer, who met up with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Europe[35] and who with his brother William Macarthur had possession of Nangus Station at Nangus, Gundagai. [57] The Mirriyolla Ghost Dog is also known of in Cootamundra a few miles to the north-west of Gundagai and lives in the Bethungra Range that is partly in Gundagai Shire. Lighthearted yarn on all things NBA and NBL, Join Narelda Jacobs and John Paul Janke to get unique Indigenous perspectives and cutting-edge analysis of the biggest stories of the week. Charles Sturt in Chapter Two of his Murrumbidgee exploration journal,[33] likened the 'verdant' Gundagai valley as having Diana of Nemi site parallels as recorded in James George Frazer's 'The Golden Bough',[34] when Sturt journeyed through the Gundagai area in 18291830. The state and commonwealth governments have unveiled plansto spend $4.5 billion to upgrade the stretch between Katoomba and Lithgow, west of Sydney. The Sydney Gazette described Windradyne as: one of the finest looking natives we have seen in this part of the country. 'West Ward' at Gundagai is still delineated by West Street. Gundagai also has a 'Shakespeare Terrace' that runs along the Murrumbidgee floodplain below the town that may or may not refer to the amazing grand theatre corroborees that happened in that area, eagerly shared in the 1830s for the benefit of overlanders and travellers; or in reference to several or all works of Shakespeare. [23] Lightning killed a horse in 1946 but the rider escaped with her life though somewhat injured. Following the successful Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth expedition to find a route through the "impenetrable" Blue Mountains in 1813, this allowed the colony to expand onto the vast fertile plains of the west. 139142, 161167, Macarthur, J. Jin were inherited from a persons mothers mother along with the responsibility for maintaining associated sites. [41] Cursed is he who transgresseth the bounds or doles of his neighbour. [24] A bushfire that caused a lot of damage was started near Gundagai in February 1906 after lightning hit a tree. The strength of these men is amazing. They became the embodiment of them. Stories were told about the travels of jin, the places where they stopped, the social rules they set down and the features of the landscape which they made. For Wiradyuri people, the connection to Wahluu spans much further, with a creation story of a young warrior killed by his brother, which has been passed down for generations. The next thing known of them is that they killed all the men at a settler's place some miles distant, the very place where it was rumoured, the poisoned bread had been laid for them. [58], Gundagai has recorded several ghost and will-o'-the-wisp sightings. They once occupied a vast area in central New South Wales, on the plains running north and south to the west of the Blue Mountains. "The project is currently exploring all suggestions and options for further mitigating environmental and cultural impacts," Mr Lunn said. Three days later Macquarie inaugurated the town of Bathurst, then continued to tour the surrounding country. However, Windradyne continued to elude attempts to find him, and as such martial law remained in place for a further seven weeks. [62] 'Kimo Hill' is a child hill of the 'Kimo Range' that has become distanced from its mother hill, 'Mount Kimo', on the northern end of the Sheahan Bridge at North Gundagai. 1), "18 Nov 1908 Snake Plague at Gundagai. Governor Brisbane's declaration read: WHEREAS THE ABORIGINAL NATIVES of the Districts near Bathurst have for many Weeks past carried on a Series of indiscriminate Attacks on the Stock Station there, putting some of the Keepers to cruel Deaths, wounding others, and dispersing and plundering the Flocks and Herds; themselves not escaping sanguinary Retaliations. Sacred tree carvings are set to return to their traditional home in the heart of New South Wales. A cave near Milbrodale contains many Wiradjuri Aboriginal paintings, including a large figure of a man who may be Baiame. It is popularly known as the Baiame Cave and is part of a series of rock shelters on an area of 80 hectares. Special thank you to the Dubbo Aboriginal Working Party that provided initial letters of support to the tourism centre project, nominated members to the Advisory Panel and remain engaged in ensuring the project delivers outcomes for community. Image caption: Architect's impression of the Wiradjuri Tourism Centre These were not based on field research and lacked aboriginal support. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The historical records, original deeds and agreements are held by the family at "Strath" Bathurst. [by Telegraph.] (Vic.) Some of the ceremonies held at sacred sites are a re-creation of the events which created the site during The Dreaming. It is the land of the Three Rivers, the Macquarie (Wambool), the Lachlan (Kalare) and the Murrumbidgee (Murrumbidjeri). [17], The Wiradjuri were also known for their handsome possum-skin cloaks stitched together from several possum furs. WebThe dual name of the nature reserve (since 2005) acknowledges a Wiradjuri cultural presence that stretches back many generations. The image faces to the west and its head is near the Dog on the Tuckerbox area at Gundagai. Biami and the others also travelled and created; some stories told of their interactions with jin[ref]Mathews 1895, 1897, 1898; for general information on totems, see Gammage 2011: 125-129.[/ref]. His names such as Yunggai, Wachigari and Yakkajari can be ignored as artifactsDuring the 1890s the idea spread and soon there was a rash of such termsSome of these have entered, unfortunately, into popular literature, despite their dubious origins. [5], A feeling of awe and reverence for that Almighty power that formed the universe was had in Gundagai at the appearance of the comet on Saturday 21 December 1844. [12][13] There has also been numerous reports of earth tremors rattling through Gundagai since European settlement.[14][15][16]. (From the Gun", "18 Nov 1899 The Sydney Morning Herald. The next day the families returned to the field, however, with no concept of private ownership of food supplies they began helping themselves. With One indication of the ancient, sacred cultural landscape that is North Gundagai is the bora ring that has been identified close to town.[1]. The Wiradjuri nation was split and sub-split into many tribes. According to oral tradition, in Mudgee, the Mowgee clan extended over a 50 km radius. The Mowgee womens totem was the wedge tail eagle (Mullian) and the mens totem the crow (Waggan). They settled around the Cudgegong River, using its resources for food, and water. One tall and shadowy supernatural visitant that appeared from under a culvert in Gundagai in 1869, severely alarmed a horse and its rider, and exhibited a livid, phosphoric light such as a rotting fish might display. First Nations leaders are concerned the landscape will be irreversibly damaged as the current plans will have a "direct" or "indirect" impact on 29 Aboriginal sites, seven which are deemed as being of "high significance". WebThe Wiradjuri people lived within the area that was known as the Wiradjuri Nation. 175194. One of the survivors of this misunderstanding was Windradyne; enraged at the attack he and his warriors immediately began a series of violent attacks against nearby stations.[10]. Nevertheless, it would be another eight years before he would become famous to the colony. The resulting roadworks would reduce travel time from about 40 to 29 minutes. Long before European settlers built a road through the Hartley Valley, it was where the Gundungurra, Darugand Wiradjuri people shared culture and trade. The floodplains of the Murrumbidgee below the present town of Gundagai were a frequent meeting place of Wiradjuri speaking people from nearby regions. Aboriginal people and landholders have worked collaboratively to protect many areas that are also important for their educational value for future generations of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. They consulted in an undertone, and departed as sullenly and noiselessly as they came. [4], After passage through the Blue Mountains had been secured, assistant surveyor George Evans and his party had been instructed to further explore the country. [20] It included unlimited and unrestricted water rights to the Macquarie River. "If there's a road put through here, are we going to have to sit in the middle of a median strip to teach the kids that?" Aboriginal Places protect a range of cultural values, including former Aboriginal reserves and missions; land containing Aboriginal burials; important meeting places and ceremonial sites; important post-contact historical events, such as massacres and birthplaces of notable Aboriginal people; places with dreaming stories and other spiritual significance; and places with Aboriginal artefacts requiring special recognition and protection. [59], Mrs Moroney at Jones Creek, Gundagai, was often visited by a ghost in 1873. On 14 August Governor Brisbane issued a proclamation of martial law. This follows two applications the organisation has already made for declarations under section 10 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 in recent months. He is not particularly tall but much stouter and more proportionable limbed than the majority of his countrymen; which combined with a noble looking countenance and piercing eye, are calculated to impress the beholder with other than disagreeable feelings towards a character who has been so much dreaded by the Bathurst settler. The Rock is also known as Kengal [55] It is claimed that the Gundagai community developed a special affinity with the Wiradjuri people and that the flood and its aftermath was the birthplace of reconciliation. ), Thurrawal (Dharawal) (NSW), Wiradjuri (NSW) and Malegoondeet (?) This primary landscape figure marked out by the course of the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai, is replicated in some Sydney Rock Engravings and recorded in local Aboriginal cultural heritage. There was no means of resistance so my father, then a lad of eighteen years, met them fearlessly at the door. From projects and major works to news and events. Between them, these men rescued more than 40 people using bark canoes. The Wiradjuri language was spoken across a wide area of central NSW including long segments of the Murrumbidgee, Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers. Will-O'-the-Wisp is Will the Smith. The junction of the Murrumbidgee and Tumut Rivers is named 'Bewuck' to note the numerous Murray Cod found in that area.[38]. However, all of these attempts failed and it was to be over 20 years before a way across was found. The corporation expressed its intent to make an application for a declaration of Wahluu as an Aboriginal Place under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW). The blue glow of the Min Min light sometimes identified as a fata morgana phenomenon, is also known in the Gundagai area and Aboriginal people were taught to run if they saw it. (, Wiradhuric branch of Australian languages, Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls, "What's in a name? WebThe Wiradjuri inhabited an area bounded by the Blue Mountains in the east, the western slopes in the south, and the change of open forest to grassy plains in the north and west. [4], Aboriginal leaders Pat Dodson and Noel Pearson; the former Chief of the Australian Army and Governor of Western Australia, Lieutenant General John Sanderson; and current Australian business leaders, met at a remote property on the Murrumbidgee River near Gundagai in September 2008 on the first stages of an Australian Dialogue to promote constitutional reform and structural change for Indigenous Australian people. [18], On 13 December 1824 Governor Brisbane wrote a letter to Major J.T. Aboriginal Places provide protection once declared as an Aboriginal Place, the land receives the same protection under the National Parks and Wildlife Act as an Aboriginal object. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. 73-74Available [online], George Augustus Robinson 'Report of a Journey of two thousand two hundred miles to the Tribes of the Coast and Eastern Interior during the year 1844', ca.1844, MLMSS 7335, State Library of NSW, Available [online], 'Parkes, W. 1952, Letter to Tindale from Parkes, Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Manuscript Collection, database 162, p.96, Department of Environment and Conservation NSW, 2004, 'Aboriginal Women's Heritage: Brungle and Tumut', Department of Environment and Conservation NSW, p.42. Windradyne himself had a reward of 500 acres of land upon his head. Once the spirits are driven from the landscape, the protection is no longer forthcoming and the settlement is open to psychic ills. These declarations are a conservation tool and advance the recognition, protection and understanding of Aboriginal cultural values throughout NSW. [15], The Battle of Bathurst began on 10 September when a Wiradjuri war party attacked a station on the Cudgegong River, they drove off the cattle before being pursued by the station hands. [52] Also in 1929, Hubert Opperman famous cyclist, had a tiger snake encounter at Gundagai. The development application for the go-kart track was approved by the Bathurst Regional Council in January last year, but Wiradyuri Traditional Owners have urged it to reconsider the proposed location for the development. In a statement,WTOCWAC said it is open to discussions with the council to find a "mutually acceptable alternative location" for the new track. Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Northern Territory Indigenous leader, could not be at the gathering of esteemed senior Australians but was kept informed of the progress of talks. [17] A terrific thunderstorm at Gundagai in March 1877 set fire to the inside of Armour's house. Saturday is, without doubt, the most manly native we have ever beheld. J. The proposed works would weave in and out of the existing road, pushing through previously untouched land. [8], Co-founder of the Gundagai Museum, Oscar Bell, British Empire Medal recipient for services to the community including preserving and recording Gundagai history,[61] and President of the Gundagai and District Historical Society, told of the ghost of a little old woman that alarmed a newly arrived in Australia, Irish pastoral worker named Dennis Kilker. [11][12], The Wiradjuri are the largest Aboriginal group in New South Wales. [5], Tindale says that some of the later terms had entered the literature, although not based on fieldwork and lacking Aboriginal support, as artificial, collective names for his "Great Tribes" of New South Wales. 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