Ngangaruku


The Nganguruku are an indigenous Australian people of the state of South Australia.

Language

The Nganguruku spoke a language similar to that of the Ngaiawang, but with significant dialect differences. The similarity caused them to occasionally be confused or conflated with the latter tribe.

Country

The traditional tribal lands of the Nganguruku covered some around the Murray River from the west bank town of Mannum to south Rhine
River junction. Their western confines ran to the scarp of the Mount Lofty Ranges.

History of contact

The Nganguruku were, in comparative terms, a relatively small tribe. Losing their lands to pastoralists, descendants of the Nganguruku took up residence at the Manunka Mission, and, later, moved to live around the area of Morgan, which still has people of mixed Nganguruku origins.

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