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What do the Yugambeh eat?

What do the Yugambeh eat?

The traditional Yugambeh diet consisted of flora and fauna native to their region, almost anything that could be eaten was, though certain species were avoided for totemic reasons.

How do you say hello in Yuggera language?

Galang nguruindhau (Turrbal) & Gurumba bigi (Yuggera)! Or “Hello from Brisbane!”.

What is Brisbane Aboriginal name?

The traditional name of Brisbane is Meeanjin – the place of the blue water lilies. It is the story of near-extinction of the Turrbal Tribe, the original inhabitants of Brisbane, that has enticed some neighbouring tribal groups (such as Jagera/Yaggera) to attempt to falsely claim Brisbane as their ancestral homelands.

What is Yuggera country?

Brisbane – Yuggera A well-known Yuggera/Jagera language word is ‘Yakka’ meaning to ‘work hard’. Hence where Australia gets the name for its iconic workwear label. More Yuggera words can be accessed through the Queensland State Library.

What are some indigenous foods?

Aboriginal people ate a large variety of plant foods such as fruits, nuts, roots, vegetables, grasses and seeds, as well as different meats such as kangaroos, ‘porcupine’7, emus, possums, goannas, turtles, shellfish and fish.

What food is native to Australia?

Australian food: 40 dishes locals like to call their own

  • Lamingtons.
  • Weet-Bix.
  • Pea and ham soup.
  • Damper.
  • Macadamia nuts.
  • Emu.
  • Anzac biscuits.
  • Witchetty grubs. This nutty-tasting grub has been an indigenous mouthful of Australian food for centuries.

How do you say thank you in Aboriginal?

Basically there is no phrase for thank you. As there are around several hundred aboriginal languages in use, what is correct in one area, means nothing elsewhere. They know and use the standard “hullo’ greeting.

What Aboriginal land is chermside on?

Chermside is in the area of the Duke of York Clan, which was known by the old ones as Barrabim (large goanna) clan.

What is the Aboriginal name for Southbank?

The Wurundjeri is one of five clan groups who are collectively known as the Kulin Nation, and lived in the area we now recognise as south-central Victoria.

What Aboriginal land is Melbourne on?

The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

What kind of people are the Yuggera people?

The groups who spoke dialects of the Yuggera language that lived in the region include the Turrbal People, Jagera People, Yugara People, Yuggera Ugarapul People, Jagera Yagera Gurrangnam.

What did the Turrbal and Jagera Aboriginal people eat?

Aboriginal culture before 1824. Brisbane was home to the Jagera and Turrbal Aboriginal clans. Before European settlement, the land, the river and its tributaries were the source and support of life in all its dimensions. The river’s abundant supply of food included fish, shellfish, crabs and shrimps.

What kind of language did the Jagera people speak?

The Jagera people, also written Yagarr, Yaggera, Yuggara, Yuggera, Chepara-Yuggara, Chepara-Yugara, Ugarapul, Yugarabul, Yuggarapul, and Yugarapul (pul-People that speak Yug [g]ara) are the Australian Aboriginal people who spoke the Yuggera language.

Who are the Yugara People of Moreton Bay?

See also Moondjan E21. Other sources indicate that the Moreton Bay region and the people from that area are known as Quandamooka. This is a grouping that consists of Yugara and Koopenul in the Cleveland area; Nunukal (E21) and Goenpul (see Jandai E19) peoples from Stradbroke Island; and Ngugi E26 from Moreton Island.