Ngangaruku

The Nganguruku are an indigenous Australian people of the state of South Australia.[1]

Language

The Nganguruku spoke a language similar to that of the Ngaiawang, but with significant dialect differences. The similarity caused them to occasionally be confused or conflated with the latter tribe.

Country

The traditional tribal lands of the Nganguruku covered some 600 square miles (1,600 km2) around the Murray River from the west bank town of Mannum to south Rhine River junction. Their western confines ran to the scarp of the Mount Lofty Ranges.[1]

History of contact

The Nganguruku were, in comparative terms, a relatively small tribe. Losing their lands to pastoralists, descendants of the Nganguruku took up residence at the Manunka Mission, and, later, moved to live around the area of Morgan, which still has people of mixed Nganguruku origins.[1]

Alternative names
  • Meru (a designation of a larger tribal confederation of which they were believed to form a part.

Notes

    Citations
    1. Tindale 1974, p. 215.

    References
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Nganguruku (SA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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