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Djadjawurrung

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Djadjawurrung or Dja Dja Wurrung, also known as the Jaara or Jajowrong people and Loddon River tribe, is a native Aboriginal tribe which occupied the watersheds of the Loddon and Avoca rivers in the Bendigo region of central Victoria, Australia. [1]

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ABC News (Australia)

ABC News is a national news service in Australia produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Aboriginal title

Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty under settler colonialism.

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Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King Edward VII.

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Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin is an Australian independent publishing company, established in Australia in 1976 as a subsidiary of the British firm George Allen & Unwin Ltd., which was founded by Sir Stanley Unwin in August 1914 and went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century.

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Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology

Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology (also known as Dreamtime or Dreaming stories, songlines, or Aboriginal oral literature) are the stories traditionally performed by Aboriginal peoples within each of the language groups across Australia.

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Australian Associated Press

Australian Associated Press (AAP) is an Australian news agency.

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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is an independent Australian Government statutory authority.

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Australian native police

Australian native police units, consisting of Aboriginal troopers under the command usually of a single white officer, existed in various forms in all Australian mainland colonies during the nineteenth and, in some cases, into the twentieth centuries.

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Avoca River

The Avoca River, an inland intermittent river of the northcentral catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower Riverina bioregion and Central Highlands and Wimmera regions of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Avoca, Victoria

Avoca is a town in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia, north west of Ballarat.

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Band society

A band society, or horde, is the simplest form of human society.

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Bealiba

Bealiba is a town in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Bendigo

Bendigo is a city in Victoria, Australia, located very close to the geographical centre of the state and approximately north west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Bendigo Advertiser

The Bendigo Advertiser (commonly referred to as The Addy) is the daily (Monday–Saturday) newspaper for Bendigo, Victoria and its surrounding region.

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Blood Hole massacre

The Blood Hole massacre occurred in what is now the Australian state of Victoria at Middle Creek, 6 – 7 miles from Glengower Station between Clunes and Newstead at the end of 1839 or early 1840, killing an unknown number of Aborigines from the Grampians district who were on their way home after trading goods for green stone axe blanks that they obtained near what is now Lancefield.

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Boon wurrung

The Boon wurrung, commonly written Bunurong, are Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation, who occupy South-Central Victoria, Australia.

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Bridgewater On Loddon, Victoria

Bridgewater On Loddon is a town in north central Victoria, Australia.

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Buckrabanyule, Victoria

Buckrabanyule is a tiny township in the north-central area of the state of Victoria in Australia.

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Bunjil

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Bunjil is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being, often depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle (or eaglehawk).

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Burnbank

Burnbank is an area in the town of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Campaspe Plains massacre

Campaspe Plains massacre, occurred in 1839 in Central Victoria, Australia as a reprisal raid against Aboriginal resistance to the invasion and occupation of the Dja Dja Wurrung and Daung Wurrung lands.

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Carisbrook, Victoria

Carisbrook is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Pyrenees Highway, east of the regional and local government centre of Maryborough, in the Shire of Central Goldfields.

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Castlemaine, Victoria

Castlemaine is a small city in Victoria, Australia, in the goldfields region of Victoria about 120 kilometres northwest by road from Melbourne and about 40 kilometres from the major provincial centre of Bendigo.

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Charles Ebden

Charles Hotson Ebden (1811 – 28 October 1867) was an Australian pastoralist and politician, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, the Victorian Legislative Council and the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

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Charlton, Victoria

Charlton "The Friendly River Town", is a town in Victoria, Australia.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Coliban River

The Coliban River, an inland perennial river of the northcentral catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower Riverina bioregion and Central Highlands region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Coranderrk

Coranderrk was a government reserve for Australian Aborigines in the state of Victoria between 1863 and 1924, located 50 km north-east of Melbourne.

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Creswick, Victoria

Creswick is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia 18 kilometres north of Ballarat and 129 km northwest of Melbourne, in the Shire of Hepburn.

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Crow (Australian Aboriginal mythology)

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, '''Crow''' is a trickster, culture hero and ancestral being.

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Daisy Hill, Victoria

Daisy Hill a town in Victoria, Australia located in the Shire of Central Goldfields.

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Daylesford Advocate

The Daylesford Advocate was a Victorian newspaper first published in 1878 as The Daylesford Advocate and Hepburn Glenlyon and Blanket Flat Chronicle.

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Daylesford, Victoria

Daylesford is a spa town located in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 108 kilometres north-west of Melbourne.

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Djadjawurrung language

Djadjawurrung (also Jaara, Ngurai-illam-wurrung) is one of the extinct Indigenous Australian languages spoken by the Jaara also known as Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria.

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Donald, Victoria

Donald is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Richardson River, at the junction of Sunraysia Highway and Borung Highway, in the Shire of Buloke.

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Edward Stone Parker

Edward Stone Parker (1802–1865) was a Methodist preacher and assistant Protector of Aborigines in the Aboriginal Protectorate established in the Port Phillip District of colonial New South Wales under George Augustus Robinson in 1838.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Emu Flat, Victoria

Emu Flat is a locality in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, in Victoria, Australia.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Franklinford, Victoria

Franklinford is a small community in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia, located in the Shire of Hepburn.

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George Augustus Robinson

George Augustus Robinson (22 March 1791 – 18 October 1866) was a builder and untrained preacher.

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George Gipps

Major Sir George Gipps (1791 – 28 February 1847) was Governor of the colony of New South Wales, Australia, for eight years, between 1838 and 1846.

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Government of Victoria

The Government of Victoria is the executive administrative authority of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Ian D. Clark (historian)

Ian D. Clark (born 1958) 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.

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Jaara baby

The Jaara baby was an Aboriginal Australian child who died at some stage during the 1840s to 1860s.

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John Stuart Hepburn

John Stuart Hepburn (a.k.a. Captain John Hepburn) was an early pastoralist and landholder in Victoria, Australia.

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Kulin

The Kulin nation is an alliance of five Indigenous Australian tribes in south central Victoria, Australia.

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Kulin languages

The Kulin languages are a group of closely related languages of the Kulin people, part of the Kulinic branch of Pama–Nyungan.

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Kyneton

Kyneton is a town in the Macedon Ranges region of Victoria, Australia.

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La Trobe University

La Trobe University is an Australian, multi-campus, public research university with its flagship campus located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora.

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Lake Buloke

Lake Buloke is a eutrophic lake in the Wimmera region of north-western Victoria, Australia.

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Lancefield, Victoria

Lancefield is a town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges local government area in Victoria, Australia north of the state capital, Melbourne and had a population of 2,357 at the 2011 census.

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List of Indigenous Australian group names

Below is a list of names and collective designations which have been applied, either currently or in the past, to groups of Indigenous Australians.

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Loddon River

The Loddon River, an inland river of the northcentral catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower Riverina bioregion and Central Highlands and Loddon Mallee regions of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Makassan contact with Australia

Makassan trepangers from the southwest corner of Sulawesi, Indonesia began visiting the coast of northern Australia sometime around the middle of the 1700s, first in the Kimberley region, and some decades later in Arnhem Land, to collect and process trepang (also known as sea cucumber), a marine invertebrate sea cucumber prized for its culinary value generally and for its medicinal properties in Chinese markets.

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Maldon, Victoria

Maldon is a town in Victoria, Australia, in the Shire of Mount Alexander local government area.

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Maryborough, Victoria

Maryborough is a small town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Pyrenees Highway, north of Ballarat, north-west of Melbourne, in the Shire of Central Goldfields.

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Monash University

Monash University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Mount Franklin (Victoria)

Mount Franklin is an extinct volcano about 10 km north of Daylesford and 4.6 km south east of Franklinford in Victoria, Australia.

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Munangabum

Munangabum (? - 1846) was an influential clan head of the Liarga balug and Spiritual Leader or neyerneyemeet of the Dja Dja Wurrung people in central Victoria, Australia.

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Museums Victoria

Museums Victoria is an organisation which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the Melbourne Museum, the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks.

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Natte Yallock

Natte Yallock is a locality in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Ngurungaeta

Ngurungaeta is a Woi-Wurrung word often said to mean 'head man' or 'tribal leader', used by clans of the Woi-Wurrung tribes and Taung Wurrung Ngurai-illum Wurrung.

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Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru) was a title granted to princes born in Wales from the 12th century onwards; the term replaced the use of the word king.

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Protector of Aborigines

The office of the Protector of Aborigines was established pursuant to a recommendation contained in the Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes, (British settlements.) of the House of Commons.

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Pyrenees Highway, Victoria

Pyrenees Highway in western Victoria, Australia is a 206 kilometre highway serving to link the Calder Highway in Elphinstone with the Glenelg Highway in Glenthompson.

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Richardson River (Victoria)

The Richardson River, an inland intermittent river of the Wimmera catchment, located in the Grampians and Wimmera regions of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Robert Clark (Australian politician)

Robert William Clark (born 11 March 1957) is an Australian politician.

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Robert Hamilton Mathews

Robert Hamilton Mathews (1841–1918) was an Australian surveyor and self-taught anthropologist who studied the Aboriginal cultures of Australia, especially those of Victoria, New South Wales and southern Queensland.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Smeaton, Victoria

Smeaton is a rural town in the state of Victoria, Australia near the town of Creswick.

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St Arnaud, Victoria

St Arnaud is a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, 244 kilometres north west of the capital Melbourne.

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Stuart Mill, Victoria

Stuart Mill is a town in north western Victoria, Australia.

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Susan Charles Rankin

Susan Charles Rankin (born 1957), also known as Aunty Sue Rankin, is an Australian indigenous rights and human rights activist and elder of the Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin nation from Central Victoria, Australia.

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Tachylite in Victorian archaeological sites

Tachylite is an unusual and relatively rare stone used in making flaked stone tools, and which is found in Aboriginal archaeological sites in Victoria, Australia.

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Tanderrum

A tanderrum is a ceremony enacted by the nations of the Kulin people and other Victorian aboriginal nations allowing safe passage and temporary access and use of land and resources by foreign people.

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Taungurong

The Taungurong people, also known as the Daung Wurrung, were thirteen clans who spoke the Daungwurrung language and were part of the Kulin alliance of indigenous Australians.

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Thomas Dunolly

Thomas Dunolly (1856–1923) was an early Indigenous Australian rights activist.

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Thomas Mitchell (explorer)

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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Toponymy

Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.

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VicRoads

VicRoads or the Roads Corporation of Victoria is a statutory corporation which is the road and traffic authority in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victorian Aborigines

Victorian Aborigines, the indigenous Australians of Victoria, Australia, occupied the land for tens of thousands of years prior to European settlement.

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Victorian gold rush

The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s.

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Wathaurong

Wathaurong, also called the Wathaurung and Wadawurrung, are an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula.

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Western Victoria

Western Victoria is a wine grape growing zone in the southwestern part of the state of Victoria in Australia.

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William Thomas (Australian settler)

William Thomas (1794 –1867) represented Aboriginal people in various roles in the Port Phillip district (now known as the state of Victoria) during his lifetime.

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Wimmera River

The Wimmera River, an inland intermittent river of the Wimmera catchment, is located in the Grampians and Wimmera regions of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Wurundjeri

The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Wurundjeri language group, in the Kulin alliance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djadjawurrung

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