What is "ramindjeri"

Ramindjeri are a clan ("lakinyeri" in Ngarrindjeri language) of Australian Aboriginal people forming part of the Kukabrak (since popularised due to 19th-century missionary Rev George Taplin as Ngarrindjeri) people. Ramindjeri land is the most westerly of the Ngarrindjeri, covering the area around Encounter Bay in southern South Australia, including Victor Harbor and Port Elliot, however an ongoing native title dispute asserts a much more extensive territory and other paradigm shifts.

Ramindjeri were amongst, if not the first South Australian Aboriginal people to come into regular contact with Europeans since 1802, with Karta ( Kangaroo Island) based sealers raiding Ramindjeri territorial lands for women in the early 19th century, pre-1836 settlement. Ramindjeri men began working as whalers around Encounter Bay in the 1830s.