Dainggattian

The Djangadi, also written Dainggati or Dunghutti, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Macleay Valley on the northern coast of New South Wales, around the town of Kempsey. Their language Dhanggati belongs to the Yuin-Kuric group within the Pama-Nyungan family.

Shell middens at Clybucca, some heaped into mounds two metres high, an ancient fish trap in Limeburners Creek and a bora ring near Crescent Head trace at least four thousand years of continuous occupation.

Outsiders first reached them in the late 1820s, when ex-convict cedar cutters camped at Euroka Creek from 1827 pushed up the valley after red cedar, and in 1835 Enoch Rudder took up the first European land grant in the Kempsey district, opening the country to pastoral settlement as the period closed.