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* {{cite web|url=http://ausanthrop.net/resources/ausanthrop_db|title=AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930181857/http://www.ausanthrop.net/resources/ausanthrop_db/|archivedate=30 September 2013}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.monaropioneers.com/aboriginals.htm|title=Aboriginals on the Monaro, transcribed from 'Back to Cooma' by Felix Mitchell, 1926, pp.34–35|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323192801/http://www.monaropioneers.com/aboriginals.htm|archivedate=23 March 2012}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.monaropioneers.com/aboriginals.htm|title=Aboriginals on the Monaro, transcribed from 'Back to Cooma' by Felix Mitchell, 1926, pp.34–35|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323192801/http://www.monaropioneers.com/aboriginals.htm|archivedate=23 March 2012}}



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The Walgalu were an indigenous Australian people of New South Wales.

Language

According to some scholars, the language of the Walgalu is a form of Ngarigo.[1]

Country

According to Norman Tindale, the Walgalu's traditional lands consisted of some 2,600 square miles (6,700 km2) of territory centering around the headwaters of the Murrumbidgee and Tumutrivers. Kiandra was located within their boundaries, whose southern extension ran down Tintaldra, and whose northeastern limits came close to Queanbeyan.[2] Josephine Flood argued, on the basis of a note in A. W. Howitt, that they were attested as far south as the upper Murray site of Kauwambal between Mount Kosciuszko and Mount Cobberas, which would place their summer camping somewhat west of the Djilamatang.[2]

According to Steven Avery, culture group boundaries in southeastern Australia are disputed, due in part to the inexactitude of linguistically assigned boundaries and the uncertainty of historical records.[1]

The Cooma local government website, based on recent research, differentiates between two Aboriginal groups which resided in their region, stating that "the two main groups on Monaro were the Ngarigo people of the tablelands and the Wogul or Wolgalu group in the high country."[3]

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ a b Avery 1994.
  2. ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 199.
  3. ^ "Aboriginal People of Monaro". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012.

References