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Winberri
Winberri (c.1820 – 11 October 1840) was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader who, in 1840, led an armed group of Taungurung men in a campaign against British colonists in what is now called central Victoria (state), Victoria. Also known as Winberry, Tinbury, or Windberry, he was shot dead in October 1840 by the New South Wales Mounted Police while they were arresting him during the Lettsom raid. Early life Winberri was born around the year 1820 into the Warringilum clan of the Taungurung people from the Goulburn River (Victoria), Goulburn River region in what is now Victoria (''Warring'' meaning Goulburn River and ''ilum'' meaning clan). His father was Bittime, who was also called Burregregrowel. Campaign of armed resistance against the British From 1838, British colonists began to take Taungurung land as pastoral leases to establish sheep stations and cattle stations. Taungurung people resisted this forced acquisition of their land through armed conflict against the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettsom Raid
The Lettsom raid was the mass-arrest and imprisonment of approximately 400 Wurundjeri, Woiworrung, Boonwurrung and Taungurung people (collectively known as the Kulin nation of Indigenous Australians) occurring in October 1840 near the British settlement of Melbourne. It was conducted by soldiers and troopers led by Major Samuel Lettsom of the New South Wales Mounted Police, under the authority of both the Superintendent of the Port Phillip District, Charles La Trobe, and the Governor of New South Wales, George Gipps. The raid was conducted as part of a larger operation aiming to remove Aboriginal people from the town of Melbourne, and also to capture or eradicate the Indigenous leaders of a resistance movement against British colonisation. As a result of the raid, a leading Indigenous insurgent named Winberri was shot dead and nine others sentenced to transportation. It also led to the local Indigenous clans being forced to reside away from Melbourne to designated reserves at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarri (Wiradjuri)
Yarri ( – 24 July 1880) also spelt Yarrie, Yarry, or Yarrar, was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Wiradjuri language group who, along with another Wiradjuri man, Jacky Jacky, took a major part in the rescue of 69 people from the flooded Murrumbidgee River in Gundagai over three days from the night of 25 June to 27 June 1852. Early life Yarri, also spelt Yarrie, Yarry, or Yarrar, came from Brungle, New South Wales, Brungle in the Gundagai Police District, His native name of Coonong Denamundinna indicates he was of the Rainbow Serpent pastoral properties near Tumblong and Adelong, New South Wales, Adelong in New South Wales, which were also associated with the Coonong region downstream of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. Stockman for the Stuckey family In 1829, British pastoralist Peter Stuckey, with his brother Henry, were the first white men to appropriate land in Yarri's country around what is now the Gundagai region. As a young man, Yarri was trained by the Stuckeys to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taungurung
The Taungurung people, also spelled ''Daung Wurrung'', are Aboriginal people who are one of the Kulin nations in present-day Victoria, Australia. They consist of nine clans whose traditional language is the Taungurung language. Their Country is to the north of the Great Dividing Range in the watersheds of the Broken, Delatite, Coliban, Goulburn and Campaspe Rivers. They lived to the north of, and were closely associated with, the Woiwurrung speaking Wurundjeri people. They were also known by white settlers as the ''Devil's River Tribe'' or ''Goulburn River Tribe''. Clan structure The Taungurung have two moieties (kinship groups) covering nine distinct clans, each of which belonged to the Bunjil ( Eaglehawk) moiety (five clans) or the Waang (Crow) moiety (four clans). Bunjil moiety * ''Buthera balug'', located in the Upper Goulburn area near Yea and Seymour. * ''Moomoom Gundidj'', around the Campaspe and north-west of Mitchellstown * ''Warring-illum balug'' around the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taungurung People
The Taungurung people, also spelled ''Daung Wurrung'', are Aboriginal people who are one of the Kulin nations in present-day Victoria, Australia. They consist of nine clans whose traditional language is the Taungurung language. Their Country is to the north of the Great Dividing Range in the watersheds of the Broken, Delatite, Coliban, Goulburn and Campaspe Rivers. They lived to the north of, and were closely associated with, the Woiwurrung speaking Wurundjeri people. They were also known by white settlers as the ''Devil's River Tribe'' or ''Goulburn River Tribe''. Clan structure The Taungurung have two moieties (kinship groups) covering nine distinct clans, each of which belonged to the Bunjil ( Eaglehawk) moiety (five clans) or the Waang (Crow) moiety (four clans). Bunjil moiety * ''Buthera balug'', located in the Upper Goulburn area near Yea and Seymour. * ''Moomoom Gundidj'', around the Campaspe and north-west of Mitchellstown * ''Warring-illum balug'' around the Upp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punitive Expedition
A punitive expedition is a military journey undertaken to punish a political entity or any group of people outside the borders of the punishing state or union. It is usually undertaken in response to perceived disobedient or morally wrong behavior by miscreants, as revenge or corrective action, or to apply strong diplomatic pressure without a formal declaration of war (e.g. surgical strike). In the 19th century, punitive expeditions were used more commonly as pretexts for colonial adventures that resulted in annexations, regime changes or changes in policies of the affected state to favour one or more colonial powers. Stowell (1921) provides the following definition: When the territorial sovereign is too weak or is unwilling to enforce respect for international law, a state which is wronged may find it necessary to invade the territory and to chastise the individuals who violate its rights and threaten its security. Historical examples *In the 5th century BC, the Achaem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Snodgrass
Peter Snodgrass (29 September 1817 – 25 November 1867) was a pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, and later, of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Snodgrass was born in Portugal and arrived at Sydney, New South Wales, with his parents Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass (later Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales) and Janet, ''née'' Wright, in December 1828. In 1838, aged 20, Peter Snodgrass travelled over 600 kilometres south from New South Wales as an overland pioneer to the Port Phillip District, becoming a successful Pastoral farming, pastoralist in what became the state of Victoria. On New Year's Day 1840, Snodgrass was involved in a duel with a fellow pastoralist, William Ryrie, which ended farcically after Snodgrass accidentally shot himself in the toe. He was involved in a second duel, in August 1841, with barrister Redmond Barry, during which Snodgrass's pistol again discharged pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yea River
The Yea River, an inland perennial river of the Goulburn River, Goulburn Broken River (Victoria), Broken catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, bioregion and North Central Victoria, Northern Country/North Central regions of the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Location and features The Yea River rises in the Toolangi State Forest north-east of and northwest of Mount Tanglefoot, part of the Great Dividing Range. The river generally flows in a northerly direction, generally aligned with the Melba Highway which crosses the river in its lower reaches. The river is joined by six tributaries including the Murrindindi River, flows east and north of the town of before reaching its confluence with the Goulburn River, near Ghin Ghin Bridge. The river descends over its watercourse, course. The river is also crossed by the Goulburn Valley Highway, east of Yea. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murrindindi, Victoria
Murrindindi is a locality along the valley of the Murrindindi River in Victoria, in eastern Australia in the Murrindindi local government area. The nearest town is Yea. At the 2021 census, the suburb of Murrindindi had a population of 114. Location and history The name comes from the pastoral run begun by squatter Peter Snodgrass in 1837, which was originally (and probably correctly) spelled ''Murrundindi''. In the Woiwurrung language of central Victoria the name means "''living in the mountains''". However, the inaccurate translation "''mist of the mountains''" is sometimes given. Snodgrass's station covered the area from the present-day town of Yea up the valleys of the east and west branches of the Muddy Creek, now the Yea River. His homestead was near the junction of these two branches, therefore surveyors named the east branch Murrindindi Creek, now the Murrindindi River. There has never been a Murrindindi town. The gold rush town of Higinbotham (began 1868, la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiradjuri
The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales, united by common descent through kinship and shared traditions. They survived as skilled hunter-fisher-gatherers, in family groups or clans, and many still use knowledge of hunting and gathering techniques as part of their customary life. In the 21st century, major Wiradjuri groups live in Condobolin, Peak Hill, Narrandera and Griffith. There are significant populations at Wagga Wagga and Leeton and smaller groups at West Wyalong, Parkes, Dubbo, Forbes, Cootamundra, Darlington Point, Cowra and Young. Name The Wiradjuri autonym is derived from , meaning "no" or "not", with the comitative suffix or meaning "having". That the Wiradjuri said , as opposed to some other word for "no", was seen as a distinctive feature of their speech, and several other tribes in New South Wales, to the west of the Great Dividing Range, are similarly named after their own words for "no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovens River
The Ovens River, a perennial river of the north-east Murray catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Alpine and Hume regions of the Australian state of Victoria. Location and features Formed by the confluence of the East and West Branches of the river, the Ovens River rises in the Victorian Alps, at the settlement of Harrietville, sourced by runoff from high slopes located within the Alpine National Park and the Mount Buffalo National Park. The river flows generally north by west and is joined by eighteen tributaries including Morses Creek at Bright, the Buckland River at , the Buffalo River and then the King River at . The river descends over its course. The Great Alpine Road follows much of the course of the river in its upper reaches. Ovens Valley The river flows through the Ovens Valley, which is a popular tourist destination servicing the ski fields of Mount Hotham, Mount Buffalo and Falls Creek, the Alpine National Park and the Moun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delatite River
The Delatite River, an inland perennial river of the Goulburn Broken catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower South Eastern Highlands bioregion and Northern Country/North Central regions of the Australian state of Victoria. The headwaters of the Delatite River rise on the western slopes of the Victorian Alps and descend to flow into the Goulburn River within Lake Eildon. Location and features The Delatite River rises in Howqua Gap, between the ski resort mountains of Mount Stirling and Mount Buller, of the Great Dividing Range. The river flows generally westwards, initially through rugged national park and state forests and, as the river descends, through more open woodlands. The river is joined by nine tributaries, passing north of the town of before reaching its confluence in Lake Eildon, an impoundment formed on the Goulburn and Delatite rivers, just east of . The river descends over its course. Etymology In Australian Aboriginal languages, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
