The Pangerang, also spelt Bangerang and Bangarang, are the Indigenous Australians who traditionally occupied much of what is now north-eastern Victoria stretching along the Murray River to Echuca and into the areas of the southern Riverina in New South Wales.
Pangerang lands were estimated by Norman Tindale to have covered some 6,700 square kilometres (2,600 sq mi), running through the lower Goulburn River valley and extending westwards to the Murray River.
It covered areas east and west of Shepparton, taking in also Wangaratta, Benalla, and Kyabram.
[1] Some Pangerang were among the estimated 26 indigenous people killed by troopers at Moira Swamp/Lake Barmah on the 15 December 1843.
We know somewhat more about the fish-loving Wongatpan and the opossum-hunting Towroonban, two Pangerang clans, simply because they happen to have been the tribes inhabiting the area where the ethnographer Edward Micklethwaite Curr took over his pastoral run.