The Yerongpan Aboriginal Corporation brings cultural educational experiences to your work place, educational space or special event. It is their pride and passion to share the history and some of the secrets of the oldest continuous living culture in the world through the expression of traditional song and dance, story telling knowledge of the land, to the creating and sharing of survival tools and artworks that share the many forms of the true representation of Firsts Nations Yuggara, Yugambeh Culture, way of life and Lore of the land.

Our Corporation is a non for profit one that acts as a Traditional Custodian Family Clan group that make decisions as a cultural governance body who are from the Brisbane and surrounding regions. As the Traditional peoples descending from the Yerongpan Clan of the Yuggara Language group we operate as a cultural education business that share cultural awareness and perform traditional experiences for people to connect them closer to our culture and way of life.

Our Country Boundary -

Our Traditional boundaries are also Recorded and Published by J.G Steele back in 1984 as the Duke of York clan this known to us in the Sandy Family as the Miguntyun clan of the Yuggara Language group and this is apart of the Cherpara (Coastal) of the Goori Society. Miguntyun meaning place of spike on the rivers bend that now is the Botanicals Gardens, Brisbane CBD. This is also the birthplace of our Yuggara Ancestor John (Meegun) Bungaree born in 1859. We wanna also make reference to the Yerongpan Clan on the South side of Brisbane as well as this is a strong part of our Great great great Grandfather Billin Billin’s country who became the leader of the Yerongpan Clan from 1852 due to the death of Munrulbin/Malrobin who was the leader of the Yerongpan clan post and pre colonial times. The Suburb Munruben near the Logan river near North Maclean derives from his name a known ancestor of the Yerongpan people. This is found along northern banks of the Logan river side where the sandy soil country in that area.

The Traditional Western Boundary for the Yerongpan is from Woogaroo Creek starting at Spring Mountain (Yarong Tarin Mirri) there is a Sand stone Dog dreaming site and near there it’s the start of Woogaroo that flows north west to Goodna and into the Brisbane river and then from there we follow the Brisbane River east.

The Traditional Northern and Eastern boundary of Yerongpan clan is we follow the Brisbane river east from Goodna woogaroo creek mouth to Bulimba Creek mouth then follow Bulimba creek south to Slacks creek near Karawatha meaning place of pine forests from there we follow the slacks creek south east until it flows into the Logan river which is situated south west of Mount Cotton.

The Southern  traditional boundary of Yerongpan is made up by following the Logan river south west from Slacks creek mouth we follow the northern banks of the Logan river south west of Mount Cotton to the mouth of Flagstone creek near Maclean and then from place we follow flagstone creek back to the southern side of Spring Mountain all within this makes up our traditional boundary lines as the custodians of the Yerong - pan  “Sandy country” this has all been orally and documented and passed down within our Sandy Family dating back to dreamtime and right to the creation connecting us to lands, waters, totems(animals, plants trees), minerals and also connected to ceremony, skin system and lore system. This is all interconnected and keeps balance to our people.

Our Yerongpan Aboriginal Corporation has Traditional stories, songs, Ancestors from these lands, waters and seas and is apart of the major Goori Chepara Society of Firsts Peoples Culture of Australia in South East QLD.

The Yerongpan decendents would like to acknowledge these ancestors for their authority, culture, stories and wisdom that play a role in the story of our lives as Traditional Custodians of today and into the future for the future Generations to come.

Our great great great Grandfather John Jack (Meegun) Bungaree who was born in 1859 at Gardens point at the old Traditional Campsite traditionally known as Migun Dhagun meaning the spike on the rivers bend. Then he later become the Headman of the lands of Miguntyun Clan of the Yuggara Language.

We will always acknowledge our ancestors as they are our connection to the Yuggara and Yugambeh Language speaking countries of south east Queensland and we are the decedents of these ancestors and we represent the people of the Miguntyun and Yerongpan clans of the Yuggara Language of the Brisbane region and the Minyangbal,Mununjali peoples of the Yugambeh Langauge group of the Gold Coast region.

Map of Aboriginal Tribes South East Queensland recorded in the 1940s by F J Watson

Another ancestors of ours great great great grandfather Bulim Bulim (Bulimba) or Billin Billin or Kwae Kwae was given the tribal headman role of the Yerongpan Clan in the year 1852 when the great ancestor malrobin died as Yerongpan leader and the honours was passed down to next in line who had similar cultural authority back then to take over the honours of leading the Yerongpan people and that man was Bulim Bulim or Bilin Billin. He become the Yerongpan clan country leader as he lived around the South East Qld region and he live that authority right up until the early 1900s.

KIRWALLIE/KERWALLI King Sandy of Brisbane, the great ancestor of the Brisbane region. Kirwallie was known to the European settlers as King Sandy and was referred to them as the King of the Sandy Country. Kirwallie was a highly respected senior elder who was honoured by his tribal markings and the high cultural authority that it gave him within our Traditional skin kinship Lore system of the South East Queensland.