Adrian Brown conducts the smoking ceremony in Kambah as Housing Minister Yvette Berry walks past. Photo: Karleen Minney.
Ngunnawal elder Warren Daley launches NAIDOC Week 2020 at DFAT in Canberra (Ngunnawal Country) with a traditional smoking ceremony . Photo: DFAT.
Ngunnawal Elder Serena Williams conducts a welcome to country and smoking ceremony ahead of the Round 15 Super Rugby match between the ACT Brumbies and the Bulls at GIO Stadium on Ngunnawal Country (Canberra). Photo: ACT Brumbies.
Ngunnawal man, Scott Bell provided the smoking ceremony at the Soldiers’ Memorial Hall on Ngunnawal Country (Yass) during NAIDOC week 2022. Photo: Yass Valley Times.
Local Ngunnawal Elder, Tina Brown, prepares the Smoking Ceremony to mark the re-opening ceremony for the The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) on Ngunnawal Country (Canberra). Photo: ACFID, 2019
Richie Allen performing a smoking ceremony outside of the Australian War Memorial. Photo: airforce.gov.au.
Welcome To County and smoking ceremony by Ngunnawal Elder Uncle Bradley Bell, which was translated by interpreters into Mandarin as well as English at the Year for the Tiger Festival on Ngunnawal Country. Photo: Our CBR, 2022
Ngunnawal elder Wally Bell performed a smoking ceremony to begin the Reconciliation day event at the National Arboretum on Ngunnawal Country. Photo: ACTAPS, 2022.
Smoking ceremony at the Soldiers’ Memorial Hall for (Yass, NSW - Ngunnawal Country) during NAIDOC week 2022. Photo: Yass Valley Times, 2022.
Ngunnawal man Richie Allan conducts a smoking ceremony in Dickson (Ngunnawal Country), pictured with Housing Minister Yvette Berry. Photo: Kerrie Brewer
Canberra Raiders Aidan Sezer & Jack Wighton along with local player Luke Dumas take part in smoking ceremony with Ngunnawal elder Uncle Billy 'T' Tompkins | Photo: NITV
Our Ngunnawal parents and grandparents photographed at Hollywood Mission on Christmas Day in 1952. Photo: Stories of the Ngunnawal book.
Adrian Brown undertaking a smoking ceremony at the 30th anniversary of the opening of Australia’s Parliament House on Ngunnawal Country.
King Andy Lane - Ngunnawal Murringe. He was a prominent figure in Ngunnawal Country, particularly of the Wallaboloa clan. In the early 1800s he dominated South East Australia, right down to the areas of Bega and Eden. He forged strong relationships with non-Indigenous families; the Humes, Broughtons, Kennedys, Walkers and Howells.
(L-R) Aunty Lexie Bell, Aunty Linda Bell and Aunty Lila Bell.
“Hollywood”, Yass, NSW, All Blacks Rugby League Team 1948 (l - r)Rear: Abe Russell, Ron Walker, Douglas Williams, Alex Bell, Stan Russell, Jack Carrol. Middle: Norman Connors, Harry Williams, Peter Bulger, Vincent Bulger Front: Eric Bell, George Williams, Don Bell, Ferdie Bell
Ngunnawal community members with dignitaries at the Welcome to Country launch event at the Canberra Airport. Photo: AIATSIS
Local Ngunnawal people preparing for the 1921 street procession commemorating the centenary of Hamilton Humes sighting of the Yass Valley. Photo: State Library of NSW ON 265/70-80
Richie Allen conducting a smoking ceremony on Ngunnawal Country (Canberra) Photo: Canberra Times
Alexander J Bell and Bertha Bell née McGuinness doing their bit for a local show with unnamed fellow Aboriginals (extract from Eric Bell’s book). Photo: Bobby Moe
Ngunnawal rock art at Yankee Hat in Namadgi National Park on Ngunnawal Country.
Queen Lucy Hamilton Hume and King Ned
Smoking ceremony on Ngunnawal Country
Mullion the Eagle. The Wedgetail Eagle known in the Dreaming stories of some Aboriginal people as Mullion, is also a totem bird of the local Ngunnawal people.
Queen Nellie Hamilton was born at Gundaroo in 1837 on the Yass River. She was often called ‘Black Nellie’ but to most European settlers she was known as ‘Queen Nellie’. Click here for more information.
A smoking ceremony with Richie Allen Jnr. Photo: Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation in Canberra.
Tina Brown conducting Welcome to Ngunnawal Country ceremony, 46th Parliament. Courtesy of Auspic/DPS.
Laurie McDonald, 2019 CWB Indigenous Businesswoman of the year.
Tara Hughes at Ngunnawal National Dance.
The ACT Health ‘Cultural Walls’ artworks launch: Ngunnawal community representatives joined ACT Government representatives. Photo: Michelle Kroll (May 2021)
Ngunnawal Elders Aunty Loretta Hallaron (L) and Aunty Lilly Bell (R) with US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy. (July 2022)
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greets Ngunnawal Elder Aunty Violet Sheridan (R) as they arrive for the renaming of Aspen Island in honour of Queen Elizabeth II as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebrations on June 04, 2022 in Canberra, Australia. (Photo by Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images).