Erawirung

The Erawirung were a historically significant Indigenous Australian people group whose traditional territory was located in what is today South Australia.

Tindale notes that the Erawirung (SA) traditional lands were

On the eastern bank of Murray River from above Paringa to Loxton and about 15 miles (40 km.) farther south in sandy country, away from the river. On the western side of river from Rufus Creek west to near Overland Corner. One of the small tribes collectively called Meru. Three hordes were listed by Shaw. They possessed mines of chert stone at Springcart Gully and south of Renmark and defended them.[1]

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They appear to have spoken a dialect of the Yuyu language common to their neighbors.

References

  1. Erawirung (SA)
  2. Aboriginal Tribes of Australia : Their terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits and Proper Names (1974)
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