This Fact Sheet may be printed for private use including for teaching or researching purposes. These relationships were very complex and test the intellectual agility of those who try to understand them.
Most commentators speak and write about Aboriginal social relationships using the word tribe.
Their territory on the coast extended from about Narooma in the south, to Lake Burrill in the north. Their hinterland included the valleys of the Tuross, Moruya and Clyde Rivers, and the source and upper valley of the Shoalhaven River. The western boundary was the ridge of the Eastern Highlands or the Great Dividing Range, the present west boundary of the Tallaganda Shire, of which Braidwood is the center. Their northern boundary was near the junction of the Mongarlowe and the Shoalhaven Rivers, the locality now known as Charleyong. When A.W. Howitt defined the groups of Aborigines who lived in the Braidwood area, he used different terminology.