Editing Narrandera (section)

=== Massacre of Narrungderah people ===
The local [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] people of the [[Wiradjuri]] nation, were all but destroyed by settlement, disease brought by [[European settlement of Australia|European settlers]], and clashes with the settlers. The last blow was a massacre of the remainder of the Narrungderah clan by a small group of European settlers near what is now referred to as Massacre, or Murdering Island, and is known to have left only one survivor.<ref name="NarranderaShireCouncilHistory">{{cite web|year=2005 |url=http://www.narrandera.nsw.gov.au/about/1012/1033.html |title=History of Narrandera |publisher=[[Narrandera Shire|Narrandera Shire Council]] |access-date=30 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821142049/http://www.narrandera.nsw.gov.au/about/1012/1033.html |archive-date=21 August 2006 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}</ref> The people of the Wiradjuri nation who now reside in Narrandera make up ten percent of the population of the town, and predominantly came from the regions south and west of Narrandera, but were dislocated by colonial expansion.