Gadigal

The Gadigal people originally inhabited the area that they call "Gadi", which lies south of Port Jackson, covering today's Sydney central business district and stretching from South Head across to Marrickville/{{NSWcity|Petersham}} with part of the southern boundary lying on the Cooks River; most notably Sydney Cove is located in Gadi, the site where the first Union Jack was raised, marking the beginning of colonisation.{{sfn|Heiss|Gibson|n.d.}} Cadi (or Gadi) in the local Dharug dialect meant below or under, indicating that the Cadi-gal belonged to the land below Port Jackson.

Philip Gidley King gave Long Cove as the western boundary[https://archive.org/details/b28762964/page/412/mode/1up?q=long+cove An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, John Hunter, 1793] which lieutenant governor David Collins identified with present-day Darling Harbour.[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12565/pg12565-images.html An Account of the English Colony In NSW, Vol 1., David Collins, 1798] Arthur Phillip in a letter to Lord Sydney in February 1790 also reported: "From the entrance of the harbour, along the south shore, to the cove adjoining this settlement the district is called Cadi, and the tribe Cadigal; the women, Cadigalleon".[https://archive.org/details/historicalrecord1pt2sidnuoft/page/309/mode/1up?q=+cove+ Historical Records of New South Wales, Vol. I Part 2. - Phillip 1783-1792, Britton 1892]

The Gadigal are coastal people who were previously dependent on the harbour for providing most of their food whilst they were living in their traditional lands. They are one of seven clans from coastal Sydney who speak a common language and have become known as the Eora people. "Eora" refers to "people" or "of this place" in Dharug language.{{sfn|RBGS}}

Soon after his arrival at Port Jackson, Governor Arthur Phillip estimated the Aboriginal population of the area at around 1,500 people, although other estimates range from as low as 200 to as high as 4,000.{{sfn|Camperdown}} The Gadigal clan was estimated to have 50-80 people.{{sfn|RBGS}}

The colonisation of the land by British settlers and the subsequent introduction of infectious diseases including smallpox decimated the Gadigal people and their neighbours. The 1789 smallpox epidemic was estimated to have killed about 50% of the Eora population, with only three Gadigal survivors.{{Sfn|Flood|2019|p=49|ps="The epidemic was certainly smallpox and killed over half the Eora. Mortality was up to 95 per cent in some bands; only three survived out of the 50-strong Cadigal."}}{{Sfn|Broome|2019|pp=22-23|ps=. "However, he [Arabanoo] perished in the diastrous smallpox epidemic that destroyed half the Eora in mid-1789."}}{{cite web |last1=Heiss |first1=Anita |last2=Gibson |first2=Melodie-Jane |date=2013 |title=Aboriginal people and place |url=http://www.sydneybarani.com.au/sites/aboriginal-people-and-place/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707182950/http://www.sydneybarani.com.au/sites/aboriginal-people-and-place/ |archive-date=Jul 7, 2014 |access-date=5 July 2014 |publisher=Sydney Barani |quote=" It is estimated that almost half of Sydney's Aboriginal population died in the smallpox epidemic of 1789. Melinda Hinkson's Aboriginal Sydney says that the Gadigal, 'the recognised owners of Sydney Cove – were reduced in number from about 60 in 1788 to just three in 1791' "}}{{efn|This epidemic is unlikely to have been a natural event.{{harv|Warren|2013|pp=68–86}}{{cite web | title=Smallpox epidemic | website=National Museum Australia | date=13 April 2018 | url=https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/smallpox-epidemic | access-date=7 May 2023}}}} However, archaeological evidence suggests that some Gadigal people may have escaped to the Concord area and settled there.{{cite web |last1=Heiss |first1=Anita |last2=McCormack |first2=Terri |last3=Ross |first3=Steven |date=20 April 2002 |title=City of Sydney: Aboriginal People & Place |url=http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani/themes/theme1.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128140140/http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani/themes/theme1.htm |archive-date=28 January 2013 |access-date=24 May 2007 |website=City of Sydney |publisher=Gadigal Information Service}} Since colonisation and its subsequent spread, most Gadigal people have been displaced from their traditional lands.{{sfn|Heiss|Gibson|n.d.}}

The former Marrickville Council area, now part of Inner West Council, is situated within Gadigal country and bordering Wangal country. In 1994 the Marrickville Aboriginal Consultative Committee was established and the committee established the Cadigal/Wangal peoples' website.{{sfn|Marrickville Council}}{{sfn|Cadigal-Wangal}}

Gadigal elder Allen Madden estimates that several hundred Dharug people, including at least a hundred Gadigal people in his own family, live in Sydney today.{{sfn|Smyth|2009}}{{sfn|Newman|2017}}

Australian band Midnight Oil included a song "Gadigal Land" as a single in their The Makarrata Project mini-album project.{{sfn|Maloon|2020}} The song includes a verse written and spoken by Gadigal poet Joel Davison.{{sfn|Hocking|2020}} A statement from Sony Music Australia explained: "It is a provocative recount of what happened in this place, and elsewhere in Australia, since 1788".{{sfn|Brandle|2020}}

In October 2023, the New South Wales government renamed a Sydney Metro station to Gadigal railway station whilst it was under construction, which had formerly been named as Pitt Street station.{{cite web |last1=Segaert |first1=Anthony |title=Indigenous name slated for new Sydney metro station |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/indigenous-name-slated-for-new-sydney-metro-station-20230808-p5durm.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=23 March 2024 |date=8 August 2023}}{{cite web |title=New CBD metro station named Gadigal Railway Station |url=https://www.sydneymetro.info/article/new-cbd-metro-station-named-gadigal-railway-station |website=Sydney Metro |access-date=23 March 2024 |date=19 October 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Todoroski |first1=Caitlyn |title=This new Sydney CBD metro station has been named in recognition of the land's traditional custodians |url=https://www.timeout.com/sydney/news/this-new-sydney-cbd-metro-station-has-been-named-in-recognition-of-the-lands-traditional-custodians-102023 |website=TimeOut |access-date=23 March 2024 |date=20 October 2023}}

Nanbaree was a young Gadigal boy who survived the smallpox outbreak in 1789. He was taken to the British colonial outpost at Sydney and became an important interpreter between the Indigenous people and the colonisers.{{cite book |last1=Isobel |title=Nanbaree |date=1994 |publisher=Muhlings |location=Perth |isbn=0646207091}}

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