Ngurelban people
The Ngurelban or Ngurai-illamwurrung are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Victoria. Language. The Ngurelban language was similar to that of the Taungurung, the neighbouring tribe to their east. Country. Ngurelban tribal territory took in an estimated 3,000 sq. miles of land. According to Norman Tindale, it ran along the Campaspe River, had its northern boundary edging on Echuca, its western frontier probably not beyond Gunbower. It extended south of Tatura along the Goulburn River to Old Crossing (Mitchellstown), and north of Seymour. Social organisation. Ngurelban were organised according to three groups or clans: History  of contact. By the late 1830s the pressure of the effects of grazing on their pastoral lands from livestock introduced by squatters had started to create serious problems for the Ngurelban. In 1839 one of them, Moonin Moonin, complained that: "Jumbuck" and "Bulgana" (sheep and cattle) were eating and destroying Aboriginal game pastures and staples like yams and "mirr-n'yong" roots.'