Lingo
Traditional language especially referring to European contact times. The preference now is to refer to specific language names such as "Wiradjuri".
Mission
Aboriginal settlement, which may or may not once have been a religious institution. Some missions of local significance were established at Brungle, Warangesda (Darlington Point), Yass, Cowra and Grong Grong. A person is described as living on or off a mission, rather than in or at
Meat/Totem/Budyan
In restored Wiradjuri the "budyan" or "flesh of all flesh". A totem. The synonym “flesh� is found in earlier records. The word totem is from a North American native peoples' language and was first used in Australia by anthropologists, and later by Aboriginal people to refer English to the association between people and the natural world, particularly animals and birds. To belong to a totemic group gives a person a relationship to people, to particular places, to the past and to certain areas of knowledge
Mob
A group of Indigenous people, linked by relationship, ancestral place, language and culture. Representations from many mobs, particularly from central and western NSW, now live in Wagga Wagga.
Myall
A black fella or group of blackfellas, considered by other blackfellas, to be wild bush blacks. Associated with unrelated or rival groups often living away from well watered country
Narraga
Stupid, soft in the head (Lachlan and Murrumbidgee dialects)
Native Title
A recent term used to describe the common law rights and interests of Indigenous people in land and waters according to their traditions, laws and customs. These rights pre-existed European colonisation.
Shake a leg
A traditional dance often performed by local Wagga Wagga male dancers The participants stand in a line or semi-circle, and one at a time come forward and perform a dance, which involves a rapid inand-out movement of the knees
Shame
Embarrassment; fear; a sense of having transgressed the social and moral code of society, intentionally or unintentionally. It can be felt in situations when a person receives positive public attention, such as winning an award at then annual NAIDOC ball in Wagga Wagga. Aboriginal society is one that values social cohesion, the highly socialised person above the individual achiever
Shame Job
An event or situation which can cause a person to feel shame or embarrassment
Story
The general English use of the word is almost in direct opposition to the Aboriginal sense, in that it most often contains the idea of 217