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Barunga is a small aboriginal community located approximately southeast of Katherine, in the Northern Territory, Australia. Barunga is part of the Roper Gulf Region LGA. The community has a health clinic, camping grounds, sports oval, basketball courts, softball pitch, school, council office, a community store. At the 2006 census, Barunga had a population of 282. Each year, the community holds the Barunga Festival which occurs in mid June. ==History== In 1913, tin mines opened in a location known as Maranboy. Many prospectors (of European, Chinese and aboriginal background), who became the first settlers in the area worked at this mine. The mines at Maranboy closed in 1945 and the aboriginal people who serviced the mine returned to Beswick Creek. In 1948, the community moved on from Beswick to Tandangal, because of risk of flooding from recent heavy rains. However, a few years later they returned, as Tandangal's creeks had dried up and they had problems with water.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.barungafestival.com.au/about.html )〕 There are also some reports that Tandangal was a sacred site, and the people were reluctant to settle there. In early 1951, the Northern Territory Government started to develop the community, then known as the Beswick community, building basic housing infrastructure and creating some minor employment opportunities. Local farmers also employed the aboriginal people, even running a peanut farm at Beswick Creek. The farm from accounts only lasted a few years. As Beswick grew, new tribes came to settle in, and a camp formed on the other side of the river known as 'the Compound' where the people made humpies. In 1965, the elders changed the name of Compound to Bamyili in 1965.〔 In 1984, it changed its name to Barunga.〔 The Barunga school was first opened in 1954 with 42 children enrolled. Today, Barunga has a dynamic school with students aged from 6 months to 19 years. Australian cycling champion Cadel Evans spent his early childhood in Barunga. Barunga Festival Barunga Festival officially began in 1985 in the remote Aboriginal community of what was then known as Bamyilli. The Festival has been held every year since on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend in June. In 2013 Barunga Festival was held from June 7 to 10. In 1988 at the Barunga Festival, the then Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, who was attending the Festival, was presented with two paintings and a text calling for Indigenous rights. This has become known as the Barunga Statement. In his speech Bob Hawke said there would be a treaty within the life of the current Parliament. This never happened, but in the spirit of the original intention, people still gather annually at Barunga to celebrate indigenous culture. Ever since this much loved Territory event has seen people from all over the country descend upon the small indigenous community south of Katherine where they camp and take part in a program of workshops, dancing ceremonies, traditional bush tucker gathering, didgeridoo making, basket weaving and enjoy plenty of great music and sport from the region. Barunga Festival is an exciting time for the community as they reunite with family members and countrymen from all over the Top End, and welcome tourists from far and near to experience community life for the weekend. 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「Barunga, Northern Territory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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