If life wasn't complicated enough, it looks like we now have a whole host of renamed National parks to remember. Ayer's Rock has changed to Uluru, The Olgas have changed name to Kata Tjuta and I have heard that Katherine Gorge is just one of the many that have also changed name. So where on the internet can one find all these renamed National Parks.
Also on the topic of aboriginal nomenclature, can anyone tell me Kooris end and Murries start? For most of my life I was under the opinion that Koories were from NSW, Murries from Qld and each state had their own name. To make it worse, when I asked an aboriginal elder friend of mine, he didn't know either! His reply was "simple, you're whitefellas, we're blackfellas and [expletives omitted]" So what is the correct nomenclature?
Think that's bad...? Beautiful Beaudesert Shire will soon be known as Bogan Logan... what with the new Labor council amalgamation plans... to55ers
I thought what had actually happened was that Uluru changed to Ayers Rock (and Kata Tjuta to The Olgas)
But that happened about 200 years ago
#4 Lol! I am currently teaching Korean kids the correct name for Ayers Rock is Uluru. Good practice for the 'r' & 'l' sounds, which they sometimes have difficulty with.
At school I have a map of Australia which shows were each of the groups are from. Not sure where it came from but would be happy to find out for you. For example out in Western Sydney you are on Dharug land.
I think Magabala books in Broome publishes a map of Australia overlaid with all the different Aboriginal groupings and place names (might be the same one that Elsie is referring to). Don't think it addresses the Murris vs Kooris issue though. I can tell you that Koori also used in Victoria though. Also pretty sure that Murri is used in Northern NSW but not sure where one stops and the other starts.
From the Museum of Victoria's Bunjilaka Aboriginal Centre comes this:
What's in a name?
The word Koorie or Koori is a word used by most Aboriginal people of New South Wales and Victoria to describe themselves. The word generally means man or people.
Numerous languages from the north coast of New South Wales, the Riverina, south western Victoria and the lower Murray in South Australia had variations of the word in their language, eg: Coorie, Kory, Kuri, Kooli, Koole. Aboriginal activists began using this term in the late 1960s and 1970s to create an individual identity. Spelt Koorie, or Koori without the e, either is acceptable and correct.
Just as indigenous people of southern New South Wales and Victoria have their own word for self identification, other groups in different states of Australia use their own identifying terms. In South Australia the word Nunga is used, Murri is used in Queensland, Noonga or Nyungar in Western Australia, Anangu in Central Australia, Yolgnu or Bininj in Arnhem Land, and in Tasmania the term Pallawah is used.
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