The Pangerang, also spelt Bangerang and Bangarang, are the
Indigenous Australians
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who traditionally occupied much of what is now north-eastern
Victoria stretching along the
Murray River to
Echuca
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and into the areas of the southern
Riverina in
New South Wales
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. They may not have been an independent tribal reality, as
Norman Tindale thought, but one of the many
Yorta Yorta tribes.
Country
Pangerang lands were estimated by
Norman Tindale to have covered some , running through the lower
Goulburn River valley and extending westwards to the Murray River. It covered areas east and west of
Shepparton, taking in also
Wangaratta,
Benalla
Benalla
is a small city in the Hume (region), Hume region of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The town sits on the Broken River (Victoria), Broken River, about north east of the state capital Melbourne. As of the , the population wa ...
, and
Kyabram. The southern reaches extend as far as
Toolamba and
Violet Town.
History of contact
Some Pangerang were among the estimated 26 indigenous people killed by troopers at
Moira Swamp/Lake Barmah on the 15 December 1843.
Social structure
According to Norman Tindale, the Bangerang collective of tribes, or nation, also known as the
Yorta Yorta, consists of eight
hordes, though others have been included in the list.
* ''Moiraduban''
* ''Waningotbun'' (at
Kotupna)
* ''Maragan'' (perhaps ''Maraban'')
* ''Owanguttha''
We know somewhat more about the fish-loving Wongatpan and the opossum-hunting Towroonban, two Pangerang clans, simply because they happen to have been the tribes inhabiting the area where the ethnographer
Edward Micklethwaite Curr took over his pastoral run.
Alternative names
* ''Panggarang, Pangorang, Pangurang, Pine-gorine, Pine-go-rine, Pinegerine, Pinegorong''
* ''Bangerang, Banjgaranj''
* ''Pallaganmiddah''
* ''Jabalajabala'' (from the word ''jabala'' meaning ''no''), a name applied to western Pangerang hordes)
* ''Yaballa, Yabula-yabula''
* ''Waningotbun''
* ''Maragan''
* ''Owanguttha''
* ''Yurt'' (
exonym
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used by northerners and the Ngurelban, from ''jurta'', meaning ''no'')
* ''Yoorta''
* ''Moiraduban''
* ''Moitheriban''
* ''Bangarang''
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Aboriginal peoples of New South Wales
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Goulburn River
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