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Kuringgai
Kuringgai (also spelled Ku-ring-gai, Kuring-gai, Guringai) (), a group of indigenous people of Australia, are those Australian Aborigines that were united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and survived as skilled hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans scattered along the coastal area of what is now known as the Sydney basin, in New South Wales, Australia. Their traditional territory spreads from the north of Sydney Harbour, through Lane Cove River, Middle Harbour, Pittwater, the Hawkesbury River, Broken Bay, Brisbane Water, and Central Coast to north of Tuggerah Lakes.
==Etymology==
The indigenous people identify themselves as Guringai. In 1892, ethnographer John Fraser used the term ''Kuringgai'' ((unicode:''Ku̇riġgai'') in his phonetic notation) to refer to the people inhabiting a large stretch of the central coastline of New South Wales:
The next great tribe is the Kuringgai on the sea coast. Their 'taurai' (hunting ground ''or'' territory) is known to extend north to the Macleay River, and I found that southwards it reached the Hawkesbury. then after, by examining the remains of the language of the natives about Sydney and southwards, and by other tests, I assured myself that the country thereabout was occupied by sub-tribes of the Kurringgai. ()
Fraser came up with the name ''Kuringgai'' being a conjunction of the native words Koori/Guri to mean black man and Ngai, meaning black woman, or belonging to.
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