Boonwurrung people are an Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who are the traditional owners of the land from the Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory in the Australian state of Victoria.
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10 Facts About Boonwurrung
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Boonwurrung is one of the Kulin languages, and belongs to the Pama-Nyungan language family.
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However these new boundaries are disputed by some Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people, including N'arweet Carolyn Briggs of the Boonwurrung Land and Sea Council.
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Boonwurrung moieties classified people either as Bunjil, that is eaglehawk or Waang, namely raven.
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Yalukit-willam clan of the Boonwurrung were semi-nomadic hunter gatherers who moved around to seasonal food sources in their territory to take advantage of seasonably available food resources.
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Boonwurrung people have oral histories that recount in detail the flooding of Port Phillip Bay ten-thousand years ago.
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The boundaries of Boonwurrung territory are defined by further floods 5000 years ago.
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Some Boonwurrung people made seasonal trips in canoes to French Island, where they could gather swan eggs.
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In 1840, the Boonwurrung became convinced that a man from a tribe in Echuca had used sorcery to ordain the death of one of their warriors, whose name had been sung while a possum bone discarded after a Boonwurrung meal, and encased in a kangaroo's leg bone, was roasted.
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Shortly afterward the named Boonwurrung man died, and the tribe revenged itself on the first Echuca tribesman who then came to visit their territory.
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