The Wotjobaluk are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Victoria . They are closely related to the Wergaia people.
5-653: The Barengi Gadjin Land Council was formed in 2005 to represent the Wotjobaluk , Jardwadjali (also known as Jaadwa), Wergaia and Jupagalk peoples. The Council manages native title rights across Western Victoria in an area "roughly described as the Wimmera River from the head of the Yarriambiack Creek through to Outlet Creek at the northern end of Lake Albacutya". The Council is governed by
10-685: A language revival project started up at the Wotjobaluk Knowledge Place, established in December 2020 at Dimboola . A Wergaia language program would run over 20 weeks. Wotjobaluk territory took in some 12,000 square kilometres (4,800 sq mi) inclusive of the Wimmera River , Outlet Creek and the two eutrophic lakes, Hindmarsh and Albacutya . Their southern borders down ran to Dimboola , Kaniva , and Servicetown . Their western frontier lay beyond Yanac, and to
15-635: A board of directors representing various family groups and has offices in Wail and Horsham . The current chairperson is Dylan Clark. The Land Council recently condemned graffiti at Aboriginal sites in the Grampians National Park and lodged a native title claim for permission to hunt inside the Park in 2016. This Victoria (state) article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wotjobaluk R. H. Mathews supplied
20-661: A brief analysis of the Wotjobaluk language (now known as Wergaia ), describing what he called the Tyattyalla dialect of the Wotjobaluk around Albacutya He stated that it was characterised by four numbers : the singular, the dual , trial , and plural . There were, in addition, two forms of the trial number for the 1st person , depending on whether the person addressed was included or excluded. Thus one obtains: wutju (a man); "wutju-buliñ" (two men); wutju-kullik (three men); wutju-getyaul (several men). In mid-2021
25-453: The east, as far as Warracknabeal and Lake Korong . Their northern horizon reached Pine Plains. The Wotjobaluk were divided into 11 bands or clans : Wotjobaluk hunters told Adolf Hartmann that kangaroos had acute hearing, and could twig the presence of a predator at 150 yards simply by hearing the noise of ankle-bones cracking. Older kangaroos were apt to cast their young from their marsupial pouch if chased by dingos, to distract
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