Munangabum (original) (raw)

Munangabum (? - 1846) was an influential clan head of the Liarga balug and Spiritual Leader or neyerneyemeet of the Dja Dja Wurrung people in central Victoria, Australia. He was influential in shaping his peoples response to invasion and European settlement in the 1830s and 1840s. He was gaoled in 1840 for sheep-stealing which resulted in Dja Dja Wurrung people traveling to Melbourne to plead for his release. Woiwurrung and Djadja wurrung people feared that unless Munangabum was released, he would move Bunjil to release the causing a plague to black and white.