Dharuk people

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The Dharuk people are an Aboriginal Australian group traditionally associated with the area around present-day Sydney, known for their distinct language and enduring cultural heritage.

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Label Occurrences
Dharuk people canonical 1
Tharawal people 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aboriginal Australian people
Indigenous people
affectedBy British colonisation of Australia
smallpox epidemics in late 18th century
continent Australia
country Australia
encounteredBy Landing of the First Fleet
surface form: First Fleet colonists
ethnicGroupOf Greater Sydney region
surface form: Sydney region
hasAlternativeName Darug people
Daruk people NERFINISHED
Dharruk people NERFINISHED
Dharug people NERFINISHED
hasCulturalHeritage oral traditions
rock engravings
shell middens
songlines
hasCulturalRevival cultural education in Sydney schools
language revitalisation programs
hasCulture Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
surface form: Australian Aboriginal culture
hasDescendantCommunity Darug people of Western Sydney
hasNotableFeature distinct language associated with Sydney region
enduring cultural heritage
hasOngoingConnectionTo Greater Sydney region
surface form: Sydney region
hasSacredSites rock art sites around Sydney
hasSocialStructure clan-based society
language Tharawal language
surface form: Dharuk language
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan languages
languageStatus revival language
nativeTo New South Wales
partOf South‑eastern Australian Aboriginal peoples
surface form: Eora nations (broad Sydney Aboriginal groups)
recognizedAsTraditionalOwnersOf parts of Western Sydney
region Cumberland Plain
Greater Western Sydney
religion Australian Aboriginal spirituality
timeOfFirstSustainedContactWithEuropeans 1788
traditionalSubsistence fishing
hunting and gathering
shellfish collection
traditionalTechnology boomerangs
canoes
spears
stone tools
traditionalTerritory Blue Mountains foothills
Hawkesbury region
surface form: Hawkesbury River region

Parramatta River catchment
surface form: Parramatta River region

Port Jackson catchment
surface form: Port Jackson region

Sydney Basin
uses totemic kinship system

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Darug people hasAlternativeName Dharuk people
Gundungurra people neighboringGroup Dharuk people
this entity surface form: Tharawal people