The names of the 15 tribal groups comprising the Bundjalung Nation are Arakwal, Banbai, Birbai, Galiabal, Gidabal, Gumbainggeri, Jigara, Jugambal, Jugumbir (Yugembeh), Jungai, Minjungbal, Ngacu, Ngamba, Nyangbal and Widjabal. According to the oral traditions of the Bundjalung People, these areas were first settled by the Three Brothers and their descendants. In pre-colonial times, Bundjalung Nation encompassed some of the richest hunting and fishing grounds anywhere on the Australian continent. In the north, Bundjalung Nation shares a border with Yuggera Nation and Barrunggam Nation to the east the Tasman Sea (Pacific Ocean) to the south Gumbaynggirr (also known as Kumbainggar) Nation and to the west it borders Ngarabal Nation. The Bundjalung people are a large Aboriginal nation, a federation of a number of groups of clans which occupy the land from Grafton on the Clarence river of northern New South Wales north to the town of Ipswich and the Beaudesert, in southern Queensland, and down around the other side of the Great Dividing Range and back to Grafton.
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