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- Families maintained a deep connection to ancestral land, fostering a profound sense of belonging. They were highly active sourcing foods, managing their boodja (land) and karlerl (extended family camp), tending to cultural responsibilities, passing knowledge, and trading with other Noongar throughout the six Noongar bonar (seasons).
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Jul 4, 2019 · The Noongar people are the traditional owners of the Perth region and the Swan Coastal Plain in particular. Noongar means ‘a person of the south-west of Western Australia,’ or the name for the ‘original inhabitants of the south-west of Western Australia’ and are one of the largest Aboriginal cultural blocks in Australia (SWALSC 2019).
Noongar groups. The Noongar (/ ˈ n ʊ ŋ ɑːr /, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar / ˈ n j ʊ ŋ ɑːr /, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga [1] / ˈ j ʊ ŋ ɑː /) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.
The Noongar people lived in balance with the natural environment. Their social structure was focused on the family with Noongar family groups occupying distinct areas of Noongar Country.
Jun 16, 2020 · She describes Nyoongar kindred as ‘all-one-family’ because immediate family extends beyond the white Australian family structure of two parents and their offspring. A Nyoongar ‘all-one-family’ will include aunties, uncles, grandparents and cousins and each may identify with different towns.
- Michelle Johnston, Simon Forrest
- 2020
Noongar moort (families) had dedicated and distinct areas of land, often with rights to specific waterholes. These areas were known as moort-boodja (family lands), while the family camp itself was referred to as their koort boodja (heart land).
Kaartdijin in Noongar means 'knowledge'. Noongar people have lived in the south-west of Western Australia for more than 45,000 years. The aim of the Kaartdijin website is to share the richness of our knowledge, culture and history in order to strengthen our community and promote wider understanding.
These families are the key signifier of Noongar identity, both vis-à-vis the non-Noongar world and in relation to other Noongar families. Noongar families are generally spread over a discrete set or ‘run’ of towns, which is recognised by other Noongar families as belonging to that family.
