Dja Dja Wurrung, also known as the Jaara 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. They were part of the Kulin alliance of tribes. There were 16 clans, which adhered to a patrilineal system. Like the other Kulin peoples there were two moieties: Bunjil the eagle and Waa the crow.
History
The Dja Dja Wurrung were bound to their land by their spiritual belief system deriving from the Dreaming, when mythic beings had created the world, the people and their culture. They were part of established trade networks which allowed goods and information to flow over substantial distances. The Tachylite deposits near Spring Hill and the Coliban River may have been important trade goods as stone artefacts from this material have been found around Victoria.
There is evidence that smallpox swept through the Dja Dja Wurrung in 1789 and 1825, which would have decimated the population at the time. The epidemics were incorporated into aboriginal mythology as a giant snake, the Mindye, sent by Bunjil, to blow magic dust over people to punish them for being bad.
The development, named Burnayi Lurnayi, meaning “young women” in Dja Dja Wurrung language, is being built in the Bendigo suburb of FloraHill, in a partnership between the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans...
We want to see real action,' she said ...Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung man Tiriki Onus, who leads the Wilin Centre at the University of Melbourne the acknowledgment 'helps us to reconcile some of the more unsavoury parts of our shared history' ... .
Last May, the proud Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Kalkadoon and Yirendali artist burst onto the scene with the anticolonialist anthem ‘BlakBritney’, and has continued to be an outspoken voice on ...
Announcing the news alongside Millar and fellow co-host Michael Rowland, Brennan, a Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman, said her new role was an important step for Indigenous representation ... Read More ... 'Always was, always will be their ABC ... .
Assembly Co-chair, Wamba Wamba, Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung and Dhudhuroa woman Ngarra Murray, said they would continue to gather feedback from communities across Victoria... 'I think reparations should be on the table,' she told 3AW ... .
It took 140 years for Djaara cultural items to be returned home after they were displayed at the 1878 Paris Exposition. With another cultural exchange with Paris underway in Bendigo, the repatriation campaign for Dja Dja Wurrung continues ... .
They are presented by the NationalAborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee ... Steph Tisdell. ‘This year’s for us ... The Naidoc person of the year is Aunty Muriel Bamblett, a Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Boon Wurrung Elder ... Naarah ... .
https.//t.co/XsZDqEscUt— ABC News (@abcnews) July 2, 2024 ... From Pups to Pros. 1.34 ... Free daily newsletter ... The Dja Dja Wurrung, Yorta Yorta woman is one of the candidates to replace Millar along with Emma Rebellato, who has also been co-hosting ... .
The articles in the Australian didn’t mention comments by made on the same panel by ABC News Breakfast co-host Bridget Brennan, a Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman, who said “there is so much ...
After widespread storms hit the WombatForest in 2021, the Dja Dja Wurrung ClansAboriginalCorporation (DJAARA) appointed VicForests to undertake "," in part by salvage logging windthrown timber, but large numbers of living trees were also cut ... ....
The operator of Victoria’s largest gold mine has struck the state’s first voluntary agreement with a First Nations traditional owner group, with the deal to funnel a portion of its annual profits to the Dja Dja Wurrung people.
She recounted how she had sat in her back yard in Bendigo on Dja Dja Wurrung country, reading through material and feeling distressed that she had not known anything about historical massacres that had occurred not far from her own home.
The 2023 Victorian Tree of the Year has lost massive limbs in what sounded like "a car crash". A Dja Dja Wurrung elder is urging greater protection of the significant river red gum ... .
