Nangatadjara Explained

See also: Nangatadjara language. The Nangatadjara are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia.

Country

Nangatadjara lands encompassed, according to Tindale, approximately 23000mi2. 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.

History of contact

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

Alternative names

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

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Nangatadjara (WA) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nangatadjara.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nangatadjara.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .