The Dja Dja Wurrung ethnonym is often analysed as a combination of a word for "yes" (djadja, dialect variants such as yeye /yaya, are perhaps … See more

Dja Dja Wurrung is classified as one of the Kulin languages. Some 700 words were taken down by Joseph Parker in 1878, while See more

The Dja Dja Wurrung are bound to their land by their spiritual belief system deriving from the Dreaming, when mythic beings had created … See more

Communities consisted of 16 land-owning groups called clans that spoke a related language and were connected through cultural and mutual … See more

According to Norman Tindale and Ian D. Clark, Their lands once extended over 16,000 square kilometres (6,200 sq mi), embracing the Upper Loddon and Avoca rivers See more

An investigation into the conditions at Franklinford in February 1864 by Coranderrk superintendent John Green and Guardian of the … See more

When foreign people passed through or were invited onto Dja Dja Wurrung lands, the ceremony of Tanderrum – freedom of the bush – would be performed. This allowed safe … See more