Wathaurong people

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The Wathaurong people are an Aboriginal Australian group whose ancestral lands encompass the region around present-day Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Aboriginal Australian people
affectedBy British colonisation of Australia
alternativeName Wadawurrung NERFINISHED
Wadawurrung people NERFINISHED
Wathaurung people NERFINISHED
country Australia
ethnonymLanguage Wathaurong language
experienced frontier violence
land dispossession
population decline in 19th century
hasContemporaryPopulationIn Bellarine Peninsula NERFINISHED
Geelong NERFINISHED
Melbourne NERFINISHED
hasCulturalPractice clan-based social organisation
corroboree
songlines
hasFlag Aboriginal flag of Australia NERFINISHED
hasLanguage Wathaurong language NERFINISHED
hasNativeTitleOrRecognitionProcess Victorian Traditional Owner Settlement Act processes
hasRepresentativeBody Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation NERFINISHED
Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative NERFINISHED
hasSacredSite Barwon River NERFINISHED
Lake Connewarre NERFINISHED
Mount Anakie NERFINISHED
You Yangs NERFINISHED
hasSocialStructure clan groups
moiety system
involvedIn cultural heritage management in Victoria
languageFamily Kulin languages NERFINISHED
locatedIn Victoria NERFINISHED
partOf Kulin nation NERFINISHED
practices Dreaming stories
recognizedBy Victorian Government NERFINISHED
religion Australian Aboriginal spirituality
traditionalLandIncludes Barwon River region NERFINISHED
Bellarine Peninsula NERFINISHED
Geelong region NERFINISHED
Moorabool River region NERFINISHED
Werribee River region NERFINISHED
You Yangs region NERFINISHED
traditionalLanguageStatus endangered
traditionalLifestyle hunter-gatherer
uses bark canoes
fire-stick farming
fish traps
possum-skin cloaks
shell middens
stone tool technology

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Geelong, Victoria, Australia traditionalOwners Wathaurong people
subject surface form: Geelong