Wonnarua

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Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales

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::summary Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales ::

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The Wonnarua people, otherwise written Wanarruwa, are a group of Aboriginal Australian people united by strong ties of kinship, and who survived in family groups or clans scattered along the inland area of what is now known as the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. Their creation spirit is Baiami, also known as Koin, the creator of all things and the Keeper of the Valley.

Language

The origin of the Wonnarua language is unclear; however, linguists group closely related dialects together under the description "language of the Hunter River/Lake Macquarie" (HRLM). That term denotes the geographical location of the closely related dialects rather than the name of the language group. The area extends from north of the Hawkesbury–MacDonald River (HMR) language and south of the Lower North Coast language (LNC). Exact geographical locations of the language groups are, at this stage, speculative.

Country

Their traditional territory, estimated to comprise an area extending over 2000 mi2, spreads from the Upper Hunter River above Maitland, west to the Great Dividing Range, towards Wollombi. The Wonnarua were bounded to the north by the Geawegal people, to the north–east by the Worimi peoples, to the south east by the Awabakal people, to the south by the Darkinung and to the west by the Wiradjuri people. The Wonnarua also had trade and ceremonial links with the Kamilaroi people.

People

The Wonnarua, at the beginning of contact with Europeans, are estimated to have numbered around 500.

The Gringai were a clan of the Worimi, whose traditional lands are in the Dungog area.

Native title

On behalf of the Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People, Scott Franks and Anor put in a native title claim on 19 August 2013. The document claimed rights over an area of roughly 9500 km2, embracing the catchment zone within the Great Dividing Range, the Liverpool Range, and the major rivers coming out of the Barringtons, under Yango. The claim included Singleton, Muswellbrook, Dungog, Maitland, and the shire council lands of the Upper Hunter. The claim was registered in January 2015 and referred to the Federal Court to deliberate over the claim and to make a determination. However, it was ultimately discontinued and removed from the register of native title claims on 2 March 2020. The discontinuance appears to have been the result of disputes with other Aboriginal people who claimed native title in the area but in a different way and these disputes led to an independent anthropologist, Dr Lee Sackett, being appointed by the Court to prepare a report to resolve the different views of native title in the area. Dr Sackett's conclusions were to the effect that key details of the claim's structure were not supported by the evidence.

Notable Wonnarua people

Alternative names

  • Wannerawa
  • Wonnah
  • Wonnuaruah/Wonarua

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Notes

Citations

Sources

  • {{Cite news | title = EDITORIAL: Wonnarua native title claim | newspaper = The Newcastle Herald | url = https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/2821606/editorial-wonnarua-native-title-claim/ | date = 16 January 2015 | ref =
  • {{Cite web | title = Scott Franks and Anor on behalf of the Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People | last1 = Franks | first1 = Scott | last2 = Lester | first2 = Robert John | publisher = National Native Title Tribunal | url = http://www.nntt.gov.au/searchRegApps/NativeTitleClaims/Pages/details.aspx?NTDA_Fileno=NC2013/006 | date = 19 August 2013
  • {{Cite news | title = Heritage listing for NSW Aboriginal cave | last = Frick | first = Erin | magazine = Australian Geographic | url = http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2014/03/hunter-valley-aboriginal-cave-slated-for-heritage-register | date = 6 March 2014
  • {{Cite book | title = Re-awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages | last = Hobson | first = John Robert | year = 2010 | publisher = Sydney University Press | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=V-ku44jjLEQC&pg=PA110 | isbn = 978-1-920-89955-4
  • {{Cite book | chapter = Wonnarua (NSW) | last = Lissarrague | first = Amanda | year = 2006 | title = A salvage grammar and wordlist of the language from the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie | publisher = Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative | chapter-url = http://www.wonnarua.org.au/images/HRLM%20part%201.pdf | isbn = 0-9775351-0-X | archive-date = 10 April 2013 | access-date = 12 May 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130410123550/http://wonnarua.org.au/images/HRLM%20part%201.pdf | url-status = dead
  • {{cite web | title = Maitland History: Wonnarua People | publisher = Australian Museum of Clothing and Textiles | url = https://sites.google.com/site/amcatmuseum/maitland-history | access-date = 12 May 2012 | ref =
  • {{Cite news | title = Native Title Game-changer for Coal | last = McCarthy | first = Joanne | newspaper = The Newcastle Herald | url = https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/2822229/native-title-game-changer-for-coal/ | date = 16 January 2015
  • {{Cite news | title = Meet the Mob: Scott Franks | publisher = ABC News, Newcastle | url = http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2015/06/12/4253959.htm | date = 12 June 2015 | ref =
  • {{Cite book | chapter = No. 188: The Hunter River | last = Miller | first = Robert | year = 1887 | title = The Australian race: its origins, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent | editor-last = Curr | editor-first = Edward | editor-link = Edward Micklethwaite Curr | publisher = Government Printer | location = Melbourne | volume = 3 | pages = 352–357 | chapter-url = https://downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/pdf/miller1886.pdf
  • {{cite web | title = Strategic Plan 2009–2019 | publisher = Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation | url = http://www.wonnarua.org.au/images/WNAC%20Strategic%20Plan.pdf | access-date = 13 May 2012 | ref =
  • {{Cite book | chapter = Wonnarua (NSW) | last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974 | author-link = Norman Tindale | title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names | publisher = Australian National University Press | chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wonnarua.htm | isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Placenames as a guide to language distribution in the Upper Hunter, and the landnám problem in Australian toponomastics | last = Wafer | first = Jim | year = 2014 | title = Indigenous and Minority Placenames Australian and International Perspectives | editor1-last = Clark | editor1-first = Ian D. | editor2-last = Hercus | editor2-first = Luise | editor2-link = Luise Hercus | editor3-last = Kostanski | editor3-first = Laura | publisher = Australilan National University | pages = 57–82 | jstor = j.ctt13www5z.7 | isbn = 9781925021622 }}
  • {{cite book| title = A Handbook of Aboriginal Languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory | last1 = Wafer | first1 = Jim | last2 = Lissarrague | first2 = Amanda | year = 2008 | publisher = Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative | location = Nambucca Heads, NSW | isbn = 978-0-977-53518-7

References

  1. "Register of Native Title Claims, Application Details: Scott Franks and Anor on behalf of the Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People (NC2013/006)".
  2. "Glencore Coal Pty Limited v Franks [2020] FCA 1801".

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