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The Ngambri people (alternatively Ngamberri people) are a group of Indigenous Australians whose ancestors lived in the south-east of Australia, in and around Australia's capital city of Canberra. It is sometimes said that the name for Canberra is derived from the word ′Ngambri′. Some say that ′Ngambri′ translates to ′cleavage′ and describes the space between Black Mountain and Mount Ainslie. Another is that the name Canberra might come from an early Aboriginal word meaning 'meeting place' or 'neutral area.' ==Sites of significance== There are many sites of significance for Ngambri people in and around Canberra, including: *Acton Peninsula, the site of the Ngambri people's Corroboree ground. The peninsula is now home to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. *Mount Ainslie and Black Mountain. The two mountains are the breasts of the spirit woman who lies in the Canberra landscape.〔 The latter was formerly Black's Camp, a woman's business camp where women went to give birth.〔 *The site of Parliament House. The site is the womb of the spirit woman who lies in the Canberra landscape.〔 *The Molonglo River, called the Ngambri River by Ngambri people.〔 The river is a provider of food for the indigenous people, including fish, turtles and crayfish.〔 *Sullivans Creek at the Australian National University campus. The area around Sullivans Creek, known as Ngambri Creek to the Ngambri people, was a campsite.〔 *Red Hill, another campground. Ngambri people camped at Red Hill year-round, including during the construction of Old Parliament House in the 1920s.〔 *An ochre site in Queanbeyan, where Ngambri people sourced brilliant white ochre for trade and for their own use. Ngambri people used ochres to decorate their bodies for song and dance and ceremony.〔 *Queanbeyan Showground, a campsite, gathering place and burial site for Ngambri people.〔 In 1841 and onwards, Ngambri people gathered at Queanbeyan Showground at the start of winter for government blanket distribution.〔 *The Tuggeranong sandstone axe-grinding grooves.〔 Ngambri women in the past prepared bread using native seeds at the site while men sharpened axes.〔 *The Wanniassa canoe tree, a gumtree used in the late 1800s or early 1900s to make a canoe which was paddled on the Molonglo River for a span of several summers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ngambri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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