Nangatadjara Knowpia

The Nangatadjara are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia.^[1]

Country edit

Nangatadjara lands encompassed, according to Tindale, approximately 23,000 square miles (60,000 km²). Their north-northeastern extension touched the Bailey, Virginia and Newland Ranges. They roamed eastwards of Lake Carey and Burtville and around the Jubilee and Plumridge lake areas, and they were present around Lake Yeo, Rason and the Bartlett Soak.^[2]

History of contact edit

The Nangatadjara are known to have shifted west to Burtville and Laverton in the last decade of the 19th century.^[2]

Alternative names edit

Nanggatha.
Nangandjara, Nganandjara.
Nangata.
Wangata.
Dituwonga.
Ditu.
Ngalapita.
Njingipalaru. (Waljen exonym signifying "different talk ")
Alindjara. ('east'(ern people))^[2]

Notes edit

Citations edit

^ A17 Nangadadjara / Nyanganyatjara at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ ^a ^b ^c Tindale 1974, p. 250.

Sources edit

"AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
"Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF). Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia. September 2016.
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Nangatadjara (WA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.

[1] A17 Nangadadjara / Nyanganyatjara at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[FOOTNOTETindale1974250-2] Tindale 1974, p. 250.

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