Ngarrindjeri

Ngarrindjeri country encompasses the lower Murray River, its lakes, the Murray Mouth and the Coorong on southern Australia’s coast. The river and its wetlands are central to the lives and traditions of its people. In Ngarrindjeri creation stories, the ancestral being Ngurunderi pursued the great Murray cod Pondi as it widened the river’s course. The lower river linked communities whose knowledge and relationships extended from freshwater to the sea.