| Bidjigal people | |
|---|---|
| aka: Bediagal.[1] | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Language family: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Language branch: | Yuin–Kuric |
| Language group: | Dharug |
Area (unknown)
 | |
| Bioregion: | Sydney basin |
| Location: | St George, Botany Bay, Western Sydney, and the Hills District |
| Rivers | Cooks, parts of the Hawkesbury River & Georges rivers; Salt Pan & Wolli creeks |
| Other geological: | Bidjigal Reserve |
| Notable individuals | |
| Pemulwuy.[1] Josh Cook | |
The Bidjigal (also spelt Bediagal,[1] Bejigal,[2] Bedegal[3] or Biddegal[4]) people are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are modern-day western, north-western, south-eastern, and southern Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. The land includes the Bidjigal Reserve, Salt Pan Creek and the Georges River. They are part of the Dharug language group, and there is debate as to whether the clan is part of the Dharug or Eora people.[5]
The Bidjigal clan were the first Indigenous Australians to encounter the First Fleet.[6] Led by Pemulwuy, the Bidjigal people resisted European colonisation from the First Fleet's arrival in 1788.[7]
- ^ a b c Kohen 2005.
- ^ "Aboriginal people of the Cooks River valley | The Dictionary of Sydney". dictionaryofsydney.org. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Search | Indigenous Strategy, Education & Research". www.indigenous.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "AboriginalPeople". www.georgesriver.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ "The Eora Dilemma | Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation". Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ Uncle Vic Simms yarns with new Indigenous students, 19 February 2020, retrieved 26 December 2021
- ^ Hinkson, Melinda (2010). Aboriginal Sydney: a guide to important places of the past and present. Alana Harris, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (2nd ed.). Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN 978-0-85575-712-0. OCLC 655900028.
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