Keiadjara Explained

See also: Keiadjara language. Keiadjara, also rendered Kiyajarra, were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Name

The name was also current among the Pitjantjatjara, but as one of their names for the Wenamba.

Country

The extent of their area is unknown, but they were located southeast of the Mandjildjara territory and south and east of the Putidjara. It ran, apparently, eastwards from an otherwise unknown site called Kolajuru, a week's trek from Tjundutjundu on the Canning Stock Route. According to Ronald Berndt, the Keiadjara lived between Kumpupintil Lake and Lake Carnegie.

Alternative names

• Keiatara
• Keredjara
• Kiadjara
• Giadjara
• Gijadjara
• Targudi, Tjargudi
• Djargudi, Targoodi
• Kalgoneidjara
• Kalguni

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 28 July 2023 . . .
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . .
• The Concept of 'The Tribe' in the Western Desert of Australia . Berndt . Ronald M. . Ronald Berndt . . 30 . 2 . 81–107 . 40329194 . December 1959 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1959.tb00213.x .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Keiadjara (WA) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/keiadjara.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/keiadjara.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .
• Book: Tonkinson, Robert . Local Organisation and Land Tenure in the Karlamilyi (Rudall River) Region . 1989 . The significance of the Karlamilyi Region to the Martujarra people of the Western Desert . Western Desert Working Group . . Perth . 99–259 . https://library.dbca.wa.gov.au/static/FullTextFiles/006910.003.pdf .