Wiradjuri



Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia describes the Wiradjuri as one of Australia's largest tribal groupings, with many hordes and offers numerous alternatives — largely variations in spelling — to the group name. He places them on 97,100 square kilometres of Country in the Riverina, centred around the Lachlan River, with Wagga Wagga, Cootamundra, Cowra, Parkes, Gundagai, Mudgee, Bathurst and Albury within their territory, which extended east to about Tumbarumba. He suggests that, while there were dialectal variations, notably around Bathurst and near Albury, a cycle of ceremonies that moved in a ring around the whole territorytended to support tribal coherence despite the large area they occupied.

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