Hoffnungsthal settlers were warned that the area was prone to flooding by an indigenous people also referred to as what?
Hoffnungsthal, South Australia Hoffnungsthal ("Valley of Hope") is the location of a former German pioneer settlement, located in South Australia's Barossa Valley. Founded in 1847, it was located in an ephemeral lagoon which was dry for the first years of settlement. Local Peramangk people warned the settlers that the area was prone to flooding, but this advice was ignored. In October 1853, after a week of heavy spring rains, the village was flooded and many of the houses were evacuated. After the cost of a proposed drain was seen as prohibitive, the village was eventually left deserted. Most of the settlers moved to the Barossa village of Bethanien as well as further a field.
Kaurareg Kaurareg (alt. Kauraraiga, plural Kauraraigalai) is the name for an indigenous Australian Torres Strait Island people. They are lower western islanders, based on the Muralag group. Commanding impressive outrigger canoe technology, they traded throughout the straits, fishing and trading with other Torres island groups, and regularly visited the Australian mainland of Cape York Peninsula, with several of whose tribes they held ceremonial, marriage and trading alliances. Subject to reprisals after being blamed for an incident in which a Western schooner and its crew were destroyed, their numbers rapidly diminished with the onset of white colonization and administration. After World War II, descendants of the Kaurareg began to return to their traditional islands, and lay claim to native title over several of them.