Banggarlan

The Banggarla, also recorded as Barngarla or Parnkalla, are an Aboriginal people of South Australia and the traditional owners of much of Eyre Peninsula, including the country around later Port Lincoln and the lands west of Port Augusta. They lived mainly along the coast, moving inland seasonally for food and ceremony, hunting kangaroo and emu in skin cloaks and relying chiefly on seafood; a cliff-top singing ritual was meant to enlist sharks and dolphins to drive fish toward the shore.

Their Dreaming centres on the Seven Sisters story cycle, and their language belongs to the Thura-Yura branch of the Pama-Nyungan family. Before European arrival the southward-moving Kokatha already pressed their northern borders.

Matthew Flinders charted the coast in 1802, and after South Australia was proclaimed in 1836 settlement spread onto Eyre Peninsula, bringing decades of frontier conflict remembered in oral tradition in the Waterloo Bay massacre.