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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Wathaurong people canonical 10
Wathaurung people 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Aboriginal Australian people
affectedBy British colonisation of Australia
alternativeName Wadawurrung
Wadawurrung people
Wathaurung people
linked to: Wathaurong people
country Australia
ethnonymLanguage Wathaurong language
experienced frontier violence
land dispossession
population decline in 19th century
hasContemporaryPopulationIn Bellarine Peninsula
Geelong
Melbourne
hasCulturalPractice clan-based social organisation
corroboree
songlines
hasFlag Aboriginal flag of Australia
hasLanguage Wathaurong language
hasNativeTitleOrRecognitionProcess Victorian Traditional Owner Settlement Act processes
hasRepresentativeBody Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation
Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative
hasSacredSite Barwon River
Lake Connewarre
Mount Anakie
You Yangs
hasSocialStructure clan groups
moiety system
involvedIn cultural heritage management in Victoria
languageFamily Kulin languages
locatedIn Victoria
partOf Kulin nation
linked to: Kulin Nation
practices Dreaming stories
recognizedBy Victorian Government
religion Australian Aboriginal spirituality
traditionalLandIncludes Barwon River region
Bellarine Peninsula
Geelong region
Moorabool River region
Werribee River region
You Yangs region
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 traditionalOwners Wathaurong people
subject linked to: Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Wathaurong people alternativeName Wathaurung people
linked to: Wathaurong people
Bunurong people neighbouringGroup Wathaurong people
Kulin Nation territory traditionalOwners Wathaurong people
Kulin languages traditionalLanguageOf Wathaurong people
Kulin Nation composedOf Wathaurong people
Kulin Nation hasEthnicGroup Wathaurong people
Kulin peoples hasPart Wathaurong people
Bunjil associatedPeople Wathaurong people
Taungurung people relatedEthnicGroup Wathaurong people
Werribee River traditionalOwners Wathaurong people