Nauo people

[1] According to Tindale, the traditional lands of the Nauo people were on the Eyre peninsula, with their principal centres around the scrub gum forest areas of the south-western coast.

[2] At the same time, devastation came in from the south with the establishment of sealing stations along their southern coastal frontiers, whose men, together with escapees from Tasmanian prisons, kidnapped many Nauo women, beginning with raids from their bases on Kangaroo Island in the first decades of the 19th century.

Tindale summarised the rumour as follows: Following the killing of a shepherd named Hamp, and the wife of another immediately afterward, it is claimed that 160 well-armed men drove a large group of aborigines, said to have numbered 260, over a cliff into the sea.

Elder Jody Miller thought it was possibly the first time in South Australia that a Native Title claim group had been asked by a local non-Indigenous community to share their culture and songlines.

[9] George French Angas wrote in 1847 the following legend: They affirm that the Nauo tribe was once entirely cut off by a great and powerful warrior, styled Willoo (eaglehawk).

Willoo climbed after them, but they broke off the branch upon which he sat, and he fell to the ground; that instant a dog deprived him of his virility, when he immediately died, and was transformed into an eagle-hawk.