The Corporation is currently developing a map to define the traditional boundaries of Wonnarua country, based on written and oral historical records. from 1820 to 1921 by A.N. If approved, it would be the first successful application made in NSW. The term denotes the geographical location of the closely related dialects; it is not the name of the language group.
The Wonnarua people, otherwise written Wanarruwa, are a group of indigenous people of Australia united by strong ties of kinship, and who survived in family groups or clans scattered along the inland area of what is now known as the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia.Their creation spirit is Baiami, also known as Koin, the creator of all things and the Keeper of the Valley. The language of the Wonnarua was a dialect of the language spoken in the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie region. The Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People believe they may be eligible to receive billions of dollars in compensation for the loss of spiritual and culturally significant land in the Hunter Valley if the their Native Title Claim succeeds. "[We] need to ensure that our cultural and heritage values are protected and the memory of our people who laid down their lives for our country are never forgotten in history....Their bodies were desecrated with no ceremonial rituals performed for them to return to the dreaming after death." The group's new application is supported by a 176 page cultural values assessment report that details several bloody incidents of frontier violence in the area. The Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People has lodged an application under the Commonwealth Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 to protect an area of land at Ravensworth. The Wonnarua people are traditional landowners in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. According to the Eather Family, the Bora ceremony was not held on the Meerea property but at another nearby location. READ MORE: Colonial records show a series of attacks and counter-attacks between Aboriginals and settlers occurred at the Ravensworth Estate and the adjoining Lethbridge Estate between 1825 and 1826.
Exact geographical locations of the language groups are, at this stage, speculative.Their traditional territory, estimated to comprise an area extending over The Wonnarua, at the beginning of contact with whites, are estimated to have numbered around 500.On behalf of the Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People, Scott Franks and Anor put in a
An Upper Hunter Aboriginal group has relaunched its campaign to prevent a mine expansion destroying land which it says was the site of an Aboriginal … The Wonnarua people are united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and have survived as skilled hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans scattered along the inland area of the Upper Hunter Valley. 16 January 2015. Tensions culminated in late 1827 when, with the endorsement of Governor Darling who sought revenge for the murder of two settlers and destruction of crops, a posse of mounted police and settlers hunted down and massacred a group 18 Aboriginals. Stemming from the registration of this claim, letters titled ‘Claimant Application – NC2013/006 Scott Franks & Anor on behalf of the Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People NSD1680/2013’ were The area extends from north of the Hawkesbury–MacDonald River (HMR) language and south of the Lower North Coast language (LNC). Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People A5410(x) Xerox copy of The History of Bulga near Singleton N.S.W.
The area extends from north of the Hawkesbury–MacDonald River (HMR) language and south of the Lower North Coast language (LNC). "[We] need to ensure that our cultural and heritage values are protected and the memory of our people who laid down their lives for our country are never forgotten in history....Their bodies were desecrated with no ceremonial rituals performed for them to return to the dreaming after death." An Upper Hunter Aboriginal group has relaunched its campaign to prevent a mine expansion destroying land which it says was the site of an Aboriginal massacre in the 1820s. Glencore plans to extract 135 million tonnes of coal from the area as part of a project that would extend the life of the company's existing Glendell open cut mine near Ravensworth until 2044. Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People has lodged a new application under sections 9 and 10 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act, 1984 over land earmarked for the Glendell Continuation Project at Ravensworth. The original name of the language, if it ever existed, is not known. There are massacre sites and more to be uncovered," Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People chairman Robert Lester said in the application.
The Australian frontier wars is a term applied by some historians to violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians (including both Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders) and white settlers during the British colonisation of Australia. The two groups are the Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation and its Singleton-based chief executive Laurie Perry, and the Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People, whose main representatives are Scott Franks and Robert Lester, who both live in Sydney. This notification period has […] Their traditional territory spreads from the Upper Hunter River near Maitland west to the Great Dividing Range towards Wollombi. A native title claim that Scott Franks and Anor had filed on behalf of the Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People (PCWP) was registered on the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT) register on 16 January 2015.