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Murra Yerribi Yerribi Dyunial Buranda
Aunty Louisa Brown
The 2008 FATSIL National Indigenous Languages Forum and Annual General Meeting was held at the Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre from Thursday the 21st to Friday the 22nd of February. ‘Murra Yerribi Yerribi Dyunial Buranda' (Ngambri for ‘Our Journey, Our Future') was the theme of the Forum. Ngambri Elder Louisa Brown welcomed delegates to country.

 

 

 

 

Murra Yerribi Yerribi Dyunial Buranda
Murra Yerribi Yerribi Dyunial Buranda
(The Ngambri people were the custodians of the country south-west of Weereewaa (Lake George), which includes the modern Australian Capital Territory. The name of the capital, Canberra, derives from that of their ancestral group. The population of the combined Ngambri and their neighbouring kin group, the Ngurmal, was reduced from 1000 or more to about 50, only 40 years or so after the first white invasions and also as a result of invasions from neighbouring Ngambri enemies. The Ngambri leader at the time of the first white invasions was Onyong. The best known survivors of the second generation of Ngambri, some of whom had a European as well as a Ngambri parent, were Bobby Hamilton, Nanny, Jimmy Taylor, Kangaroo Tommy, ‘Black Dick’ Lowe and Henry ‘Black Harry’ Williams.

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