What Aboriginal groups are in South Australia?

What Aboriginal groups are in South Australia?

Before you start, Participants will be divided into six small groups to represent the South Australian Aboriginal groups: Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara, Kaurna, Narungga, Ngarrindjeri, Kookatha and Adnyamathanha.

What Aboriginal land is South Australia on?

The Kaurna people (English: /ˈɡɑːnə/, Kaurna: [ɡ̊auɳa]; also Coorna, Kaura, Gaurna and other variations) are a group of Aboriginal people whose traditional lands include the Adelaide Plains of South Australia.

How many Aboriginal tribes are in South Australia?

South Australia is home to over 30 Aboriginal groups, with distinct beliefs, cultural practices and languages.

Where do Aboriginal live in South Australia?

In 2016, the majority (71.1%) of South Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population lived in the Adelaide Indigenous Region.

What is the Kaurna name for Adelaide?

The Kaurna translation of tarntanya wama is Adelaide Oval; derived from the word for Adelaide (tarntanya) and the word for plain (wama). The English names for various parts of this park remain.

Is all of Adelaide Kaurna Country?

Adelaide is located on the traditional Country of the Kaurna people. City of Adelaide acknowledges that we are meeting on the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present.

What is the Aboriginal name for Adelaide?

Kaurna
The Kaurna translation of tarntanya wama is Adelaide Oval; derived from the word for Adelaide (tarntanya) and the word for plain (wama). The English names for various parts of this park remain.

Who are the Aboriginal South Australians?

The Aboriginal South Australians are the Indigenous people who lived in South Australia prior to the British colonisation of South Australia, and their descendants and their ancestors.

Are there any Aboriginal routes in South Australia?

Some Aboriginal routes in the western portion of South Australia, 1940-41. Koch, Harold and Hercus, Luise (eds). Aboriginal placenames : naming and re-naming the Australian landscape, 2009. South Australian Aboriginal dreaming of the Flinders Ranges : a journey into an ancient land, rich in Aboriginal culture and heritage, 2001.

What does this map show about Aboriginal Australia?

This map attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia. It shows only the general locations of larger groupings of people which may include clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. It used published resources from the eighteenth century-1994 and is not intended to be exact, nor the boundaries fixed.

How are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups on the map?

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups were included on the map based on the published resources available between 1988 and 1994 which determine the cultural, language and trade boundaries and relationships between groups. This map attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia.