Waveroo

The Waveroo, also written Waywurru, were one of the principal groups of the Pallanganmiddang people of north-eastern Victoria, whose country took in the upper Murray lands around the Ovens and King rivers, Wangaratta and Mount Buffalo. Their language, Pallanganmiddang, formed together with Dhudhuroa the Upper Murray group of Pama-Nyungan.

The Waveroo adopted the Kulin system of eaglehawk and crow moieties inherited through the father, and their clans intermarried with nearby Kulin groups. The Hume and Hovell expedition crossed their country in 1824, and Major Thomas Mitchell's favourable report of 1836 opened the way for pastoral squatters who soon occupied the river flats.