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KwinanaTraditional Owners and Local NetworksThe Town of Kwinana is situated on land which was inhabited by the Whadjuk Nyoongar people for over 40,000years.For information and protocols in regard to conducting Welcome to Country ceremonies or Acknowledgement ofCountry for events and gatherings, please follow this link: http://www.noongar.org.au/images/pdf/forms/BookTwo-ProtocolGuide16p.pdfFor contact with local groups who may be able to perform Welcome to Country ceremonies, contact:Town of KwinanaPO Box 21, Kwinana WA 6966Cnr Gilmore Avenue and Sulphur Road,Kwinana WA 6167Ph: (08) 9439 0200 | Fax: (08) 9439 0222E: admin@kwinana.wa.gov.au | W: www.kwinana.wa.gov.auMoorditj Koort Aboriginal Health & WellnessCentre Kwinana & Rockingham150 Gilmore AvenueMedina WA 6167Ph: (08) 9439 9540Fax: (08) 9439 6288www.rkdgp.com.au/site/index.cfmOther Local Networks:Bridging the GapUnit 24B, Kwinana Commercial Centre, 43 Meares Av,Kwinana WA 6167Ph: (08) 9419 2553 | Fax: (08) 9439 2552E: mailbox@bridgingthegap.org.au | W: www.bridgingthegap.org.auNanakaat Aboriginal Family SupportHutchins Cove (rear of TAFE), Kwinana WA 6167Ph: (08) 9419 0417 | Fax: (08) 9439 0272E: nanakaat@kwinana.wa.gov.au | W: www.kwinana.wa.gov.auKwinana Community Health & Development Centre1 Peel Ct, Kwinana WA 6167Ph: (08) 9419 2266 | Fax: (08) 9439 1088Parent and Adolescent Counselling Service1 Peel Ct, Kwinana WA 6167Ph: (08) 9528 0702 | Fax: (08) 9528 0755E: rebecca.henderson@anglicarewa.org.au | W:www.anglicarewa.org.auCulture (local knowledge):The Aboriginal peoples of the Kwinana area are part of the Nyoongar people. Nyoongar people traditionally lived anomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle, travelling to and from destinations and meeting areas throughout the seasons.Wetlands have great spiritual significance to Aboriginal people. They were also sources of abundant food and freshwater and were often used as camp sites. Nyoongar family groups usually moved through the south-west landscapein a set pattern, within a designated tract of territory, often following fresh water sources.The Swan River Nyoongars described the coastal region south of Perth in geological divisions. Booyeembara, theportion along the coast, consisted principally of limestone rock, and generally supported the Xanthorea, and a fewspecies of eucalyptus such as Tuart, Pricklybark and Flooded Gum. Running parallel to, and behind this division wasGandoo, a sandy terrain rich in Jarrah and Marri. Warget, the division behind and parallel to Gandoo, stretched alongthe foothills of the Darling Range.The Spectacles Wetlands area is a significant site for Aboriginal people. The wetlands is a part of the indigenousterritory known as the Beeliar Nation and is identified as the area of tribal elder Midgegooroo. Midgegooroo andhis people were transitional and, like their ancestors, moved within the Beeliar territory according to the particularseason. The Spectacles Wetlands is part of the major and ancient trade route that follows the freshwater lakeslinking the Aboriginal peoples of the Murray and Swan rivers.W292782
KwinanaThe area has cultural significance as a ceremonial, camping and food gathering site. Kwinana has a rich Aboriginalheritage and is the second largest indigenous community in the Perth metropolitan area.Seventeen significant Nyoongar places in the City of Kwinana have been listed on the Register of Aboriginal Sitesestablished by the Department of Indigenous Affairs. The largest number of places of Aboriginal significance inKwinana are artefact sites – including finds at Woolcoot Road Swamp, Treeby Road Lake, Mortimer, Bellway SandQuarry, Chalk Hill camps, Bertram Road, Norkett Road, Sloans reserve, Wally’s camp, Thomas Oval, Hope Valley andLeda. Mythological sites have been registered at Mandogalup (Spectacles) and Mount Brown (Booyeeanup).The lakes of Beeliar Regional Park are also important as spiritual and mythological locations. The spiritual connectionbetween the Aboriginal community and North and Bibra Lakes continues today.History:In the Whadjuk (Nyoongar) Indigenous language the word Kwinana means ‘Pretty Maiden’.Some knowledge of groups occupying the land south of the Swan River can be derived from the investigationsof early European settlers, as no historical records made by Aboriginal people have survived. In 1832, the earlysettler Robert Lyon, with the help of Yagan, then a prisoner on Carnac Island, compiled a list of Aboriginal groups incontact with the Swan River settlement. This information was published in the Perth Gazette in 1833. Five yearslater, Francis Armstrong- who spoke five Nyoongar dialects- recorded the names of groups in the south-west ofWestern Australia. In 1834, the 21-year-old Armstrong had been placed in charge of the newly established AboriginalInstitution at the base of Mt Eliza. He was Chief Advisor on Aboriginal Affairs to Governors Stirling and Hutt; heserved as the Superintendent of the Native Institution between 1834 and 1838; the official Interpreter for Aboriginesin the Courts; a teacher in the Perth Aboriginal School (1840-1845); and then became the Moral Superintendent tothe Aboriginal prisoners on Rottnest Island. In 1871, he held the position of Government Interpreter to the NativeTribes of Western Australia.With the coming of European settlement in 1829, the way of life of the Nyoongars was irreversibly changed. By theend of that first year, the Aboriginal firing of the bush to flush out game and the raiding of farmer’s food stocks hadroused strong settler opposition. The ensuing Nyoongar resistance to expanding settlement in the Swan River Colonyultimately proved futile, however. Apart from their inability to unify politically to organize effective resistance, theAborigines were disadvantaged by their reluctance to adopt the European technology of warfare.The basis of Nyoongar traditions was also undermined as Aborigines were drawn into the political economy of settlersociety. As early as 1833, Aboriginal labour was employed in the fishing industry at Mandurah. Towards the end ofthe second decade of settlement, the Nyoongar were also employed in a variety of other occupations. They foundwork in whaling operations on the beach as well as boats’ crew, as domestic servants, farm labourers, guides tosurveyors and explorers, constables and trackers, and as mailmen. By 1848, estimates put the number of Aboriginesemployed by the colonists at 540.Other factors impacting negatively on the Nyoongars included the loss of traditional food sources due to expansion ofEuropean settlement, and the devastating effect of diseases to which they had no natural immunity. In 1841, influenzakilled large numbers of Nyoongar children and the elderly. In 1848, a whooping cough epidemic had a further deadlyeffect on the Aboriginal population. A new influenza epidemic in 1851 also caused a large loss of life in Nyoongarcommunities. Major epidemics of measles and influenza caused further death and disability in the 1880s.By 1900, however, there was the start of a gradual increase in the part-Aboriginal population of the south-west ofWestern Australia. There was also a steady movement of Aboriginal groups from beyond the ‘circumcision line’into the south-west area that was the traditional territory of the Nyoongar. By the late 20th century, the Aboriginalpopulation of the south-west had begun to recover. So much so that now, in the 21st century, men, women andchildren claiming Nyoongar descent are again one of the largest identifiable Aboriginal populations in Australia.W292782Sources and further reading:www.kwinana.wa.gov.auwww.rockingham.wa.gov.auwww.melvillecity.com.au/environment/www.dia.wa.gov.au/AHIS/default.aspxwww.spectaclestours.com.au
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