Nangatadjara

See also: Nangatadjara language

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

Country

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

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

Alternative names

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

Notes

Citations

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

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 14 May 2024.
• "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. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020.