Caroline Long sat with our local Elder Aunty Ellen Mundy to record a bit of background to our new name Budjangal.
Listen here:
The Transcript for this recording is below:
Ellen Mundy:
Hi, my name’s Ellen Mundy.
I’m a Djirranganj Ngarigo representative elder, Djirranganj local elder of this area.
I’ve authorised for SEWACS to use the word Budjangal, which means belonging. It is from the local Djirranganj language and the Bega area.
Bega Valley is where they had the ceremonies here. This is where they’d meet those ceremonies and the initiations take place at Biamanga.
And during that ceremony, we would have a kinship law and we would adopt other languages such as language like Ngarigo or some Dhurga of the coast, and some of the language would be Bidawal and Koori as well.