Nagara people explained

See also: Nagara language. The Nagara, also written Nakara, are an indigenous Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

Country

The Nagara owned roughly 200 sq.miles of tribal grounds around Boucaut Bay, and a stretch of territory southwest of the Blyth River. Their inland extension went as far as theTomkinson River and its mouth.

History

Faced with extinction the surviving members of the Gadjalivia melted into the Nagara in recent times, with the result that the latter took over the traditional lands associated with the former tribe.

Alternative names

• Naka:ra
• Nakara
• Ngara
• Na'kara
• Nakkara^[1]

Notes

Citations

Sources

• How Some Murngin Men Marry Ten Wives: The Marital Implications of Matrilateral Cross-Cousin Structures . Keen . Ian . Ian Keen . . 17 . 4 . 620–642 . New Series . December 1982 . 10.2307/2802037 . 2802037 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Nakara (NT) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nakara.htm .

Notes and References

1. Eather . Bronwyn . A grammar of Nakkara (Central Arnhem Land Coast) . 1990 . PhD . Australian National University . 1885/132899 . 10.25911/5D723D207FDA3 . free .