Krauatungalung people

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One of the Krauatungalung, c. 1904. Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 5 - One of the Krauatungalung.jpg
One of the Krauatungalung, c. 1904.

The Krauatungalung were an indigenous Australian tribe of East Gippsland, in Victoria. They are now extinct. According to Norman Tindale, their inclusion as one of the 5 tribes constituting the Gunai is artificial. [1] Their descendants now identify themselves with the GunaiKurnai nation.

East Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia

East Gippsland is the eastern region of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia covering 31,740 square kilometres (14%) of Victoria. It has a population of 80,114.

The Gunai or Kurnai, often now referred to as the Gunaikurnai, is an Indigenous Australian nation of south-east Australia whose territory occupies most of present-day Gippsland and much of the southern slopes of the Victorian Alps. The Gunaikurnai nation is composed of five major clans. Many of the Gunaikurnai people resisted early European squatting and subsequent settlement during the nineteenth century, resulting in a number of deadly confrontations between Europeans and the Gunai/Kurnai. There are about 3,000 Gunai/Kurnai people alive today, predominantly living in Gippsland.

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Name

According to A. W. Howitt the ethnonym Krauatungalung is composed of krauat (east) and -galung, a suffix meaning 'of'/'belonging to'. [2] In their own language, they referred to themselves as Mukdhang, meaning 'good (mak) speech' (ðang)

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case ending, which indicate the grammatical cased of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.

Country

The Krauatungalung possessed an estimated 2,200 sq. miles of tribal territory, from Cape Everard (Point Hicks) to Lakes Entrance. It covered several rivers, the Cann, Brodribb, Buchan, and the Snowy River. Its inland boundary was at the Black Mountain. [1]

Point Hicks point in Australia

Point Hicks or Tolywiarar, is a coastal headland in the East Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, located within the Croajingolong National Park. The point is marked by the Point Hicks Lighthouse that faces the Tasman Sea.

Cann River, Victoria Town in Victoria, Australia

Cann River is a town in the East Gippsland region of Victoria in Australia. The town is located on the Cann River at the junction of the Princes Highway and the Monaro Highway, in the Shire of East Gippsland. At the 2016 census, Cann River had a population of 194 people.

Brodribb River river in East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia

The Brodribb River is a perennial river of the Snowy River catchment, located in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

Alternative names

Bidhawal

The Bidhawal were an Australian Aboriginal tribe of Gippsland, Victoria. According to A. W. Howitt, the Bidhawal were composed of "refugees from tribes".

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    References

    Ian D. Clark is an academic historian and Toponymist whose primary work has focused on Victorian Aboriginal history, aboriginal toponymy and the frontier conflict between Indigenous Australians and immigrant settlers during the European settlement of Victoria, Australia.

    Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon is a Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland. He is also Deputy Director of The Language and Culture Research Centre at JCU. Doctor of Letters, he was awarded a prestigious Honorary Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa by JCU in 2018. Fellow of British Academy; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, he is one of three living linguists to be specifically mentioned in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by P. H. Matthews.

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