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Kurajarra
The Kurajarra were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Their existence as a people was overlooked in Norman Tindale's classic 1974 survey of Australian Aboriginal tribal groups and their language is unattested. Country The Kurajarra were a small tribe whose territorial extension is not known other than that its heartland lay in the McKay Range (''Pungkulyi'') some northwest of Kumpupintil Lake. They lived between the Nyiyaparli to their west, the Wanman to the north, the Kartudjara The Kartudjara are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Country The Kartudjara's traditional lands extended over from ''Madaleri'', north of Kumpupintil Lake around Well 22 down southwest towards ''Pulp ... on their eastern and southeastern side, and the Putidjara to the south. People Like the Ngulipartu, the Kurajarra were a numerically small tribe which, under the stress of post-contact migrations and change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumpupintil Lake
Kumpupintil Lake (), formerly known as Lake Disappointment, is an endorheic salt lake located in the Little Sandy Desert, east of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Description Kumpupintil Lake is about long and located east of Newman. The lake typically is dry, except during very wet periods such as the 1900 floods and in many recent tropical wet seasons since 1967. It lies on the Tropic of Capricorn, due east of the mining town of and the . It is at the northern side of the Little Sandy Desert and south of the Karlamilyi National Park. The Canning Stock Route passes down the western shores of the lake and the surrounds consist mostly of sand dunes. Its elevation is 325 metres (1066 ft) above mean sea level. The lake is important to Martu people for spiritual and ceremonial reasons, as well as being an important place for water and traditional food. The lake is home to many species of water birds. The discovery of a new species of dragon lizard, '' Cten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, and over time formed as many as 500 language-based groups. In the past, Aboriginal people lived over large sections of the continental shelf. They were isolated on many of the smaller offshore islands and Tasmania when the land was inundated at the start of the Holocene inter-glacial period, about 11,700 years ago. Despite this, Aboriginal people maintained extensive networks within the continent and certain groups maintained relationships with Torres Strait Islanders and the Makassar people of modern-day Indonesia. Over the millennia, Aboriginal people developed complex trade networks, inter-cultural relationships, law and religions, which make up some of the oldest, and possibly ''the'' oldest, continuous cultures in the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilbara
The Pilbara () is a large, dry, sparsely populated regions of Western Australia, region in the north of Western Australia. It is known for its Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal people; wealth disparity; its ancient landscapes; the prevailing red earth; and its vast mineral deposits, in particular iron ore. It is also a global biodiversity hotspot for subterranean fauna. Definitions of the Pilbara region At least two important but differing definitions of "the Pilbara" region exist. Administratively it is one of the nine regions of Western Australia defined by the ''Regional Development Commissions Act 1993''; the term also refers to the Pilbara shrublands bioregion (which differs in extent) under the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA). Geography The Pilbara region, as defined by the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993 and administered for economic development purposes by the Pilbara Development Commission, has an estimated population of 61,68 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a land area of , and is also the List of country subdivisions by area, second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth. Western Australia has a diverse range of climates, including tropical conditions in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley, deserts in the interior (including the Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, and Great Victoria Desert) and a Mediterranean climate on the south-west and southern coastal areas. the state has 2.965 million inhabitants—10.9 percent of the national total. Over 90 percent of the state's population live in the South-West Land Division, south-west corner and around 80 percent live in the state capital Perth, leaving the remainder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians at the time of European settlement, shown in his map published in 1940. This map provided the basis of a map published by David Horton in 1996 and widely used in its online form today. Tindale's major work was ''Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits and Proper Names'' (1974). Life Tindale was born on 12 October 1900 in Perth, Western Australia. His family moved to Tokyo and lived there from 1907 to 1915, where his father worked as an accountant at the Salvation Army mission in Japan. Norman attended the American School in Japan, where his closest friend was Gordon Bowles, a Quaker who, like him, later became an anthropologist. The family returned to Perth in August 1917, and soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niabali
The Niabali, otherwise written ''Nyiyaparli,'' are an indigenous Australia tribe of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Language Their language is called Nyiyaparli. It was customary to classify it as one of the Ngayarda languages until Alan Dench reassigned it to the Wati languages in a 1991 study. Country The Niabali's range of territory extends over some from the headwaters of the Oakover and Davis rivers, just north of their junction. They include the middle sector of the Fortescue River. To the northwest, they reach as far as Roy Hill on Weeli Wolli Creek, north of the Ophthalmia Range. Eastwards their boundaries run to Talawana. Social organization The Niabali have traditionally had strong tribal bonds with the Bailgu, and one result of the disaggregation and dispersion of the old territorial-tribal orders is that the two distinct groups began to intermarry, forming a more mixed set of communities. History Towards the end of the 19th. century - Norman Tindale sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanman People
The Warnman, also spelt Wanman, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia's Pilbara region. Country The Warnman people's territory extends over some . Their southern boundary lies around the McKay Range and the area of Kumpupintil Lake. Westwards, it reaches ''Wadurara'' on the Rudall River (''Karlamilyi''). The northern frontier lies in the vicinity of Lake Dora (''Walerelere''), ''Mendidjildjil'' and ''Karbardi'', while they are present eastwards as far as the George, Wooloomber and Auld Lakes. The change from claypan lakes country to mulga terrain in the south marked a limit beyond which they thought danger lay. Language Ecology As often, natural features can mark a kind of informal boundary between tribes. With the Wanman, that boundary in the south is delineated by the transition from their clumpy porcupine grassland to the thick mulga shrubland of the Kartudjara. The onset of drought would push them northwest, to around ''Karbardi'' and ''Pulburukuritj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kartudjara
The Kartudjara are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Country The Kartudjara's traditional lands extended over from ''Madaleri'', north of Kumpupintil Lake around Well 22 down southwest towards ''Pulpuruma'' (Well 12). Their western boundary lay on the southern side of the Rudall River (''Karlamilyi'') as far as the Robertson Range and the eastern headwaters of both the Jigalong and Savory Creeks. The country was characterized by endemic parallel sand-dune formations. History Around the 1890s the Kartudjara pressured the Niabali to their northwest, off Savory Creek, forcing them to move roughly to Balfour Downs. The Kartudjara thereafter went on to water at the Rudall River The Rudall River ( Wanman: ''Karlamilyi'') is an ephemeral river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The entire length of the river is located within the boundaries of the Karlamilyi National Park, which straddles the Little Sandy Dese ..., which bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Putidjara
The Putijarra are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Country Putijarra territory, in Norman Tindale's estimation, extended over . They were to be found south of Lake George, and east to ''Kolajuru'', and beyond the southeast of Kumpupintil Lake, latterly at Mendel in the direction of the Hutton Range. The frontier with the Mandjildjara lay at ''Tjundutjundu'' well on the Canning Stock Route. When drought struck they would press south to ''Kadidi'' near Lake Augusta, and the moon totem soak called ''Tjangara.'' Their most southerly boundary was at ''Pulburumal'', the twelfth waterhole on the Canning Stock Route. Their border with the Kartudjara was at ''Lawulawu'' (Canning Stock Route Well 16). Alternative names * ''Potitjara, Putitjara'' * ''Budidjara, Bududjara'' * ''Purditara'' * ''Pawutudjara'' * ''Paodudjara'' * ''Patudja'' * ''Patudjara'' * ''Partutudjara'' * ''Bawndudjara'' * ''Partutu'' (lake people) * ''Ngondidjara'' (Kartudjara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngolibardu
The Ngolibardu, otherwise written ''Ngulipartu'', were an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia. Country Norman Tindale assigned the Ngolibardu a territorial domain of roughly . They were on the Rudall River, whose waters at ''Kalamilji'' were a final refuge in times of extreme drought. From the Rudall their land ran north as far as the Paterson Range. Their eastern frontier lay at Mount Broadhurst Range and Rooney Creek, while their western boundary was marked by the Throssell Range. These tribal lands were later taken over by the Kartudjara, moving up from the south, and the westward movement of the Nyangumarta to their north. On their western flank were the Wanman, and to their east lay the Nyamal The Nyamal are an Indigenous Australian people of the Pilbara area of north-western Western Australia. Language A version of Nyamal became the basis of a pidgin used among workers on pearling luggers in the late 19th century, and was spoken sev .... History Tradi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIATSIS
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, publishing, and research institute and is considered to be Australia's premier resource for information about the cultures and societies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The institute is a leader in ethical research and the handling of culturally sensitive material. The collection at AIATSIS has been built through over 50 years of research and engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and is now a source of language and culture revitalisation, native title research, and Indigenous family and community history. AIATSIS is located on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. History The proposal and interim council (1959–1964) In the late 1950s, there was an increasing focus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Aboriginal Affairs (Western Australia)
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs (Western Australia) is the former government authority that was involved with the matters of the Aboriginal population of Western Australia between 2013 and 2017. Aborigines Protection Board Prior to the creation of the Aborigines Department in 1898, there had been an Aborigines Protection Board, which operated between 1 January 1886 and 1 April 1898 as a Statutory authority. It was created by the ''Aborigines Protection Act 1886'' (WA), also known as the ''Half-caste act'', ''An Act to provide for the better protection and management of the Aboriginal natives of Western Australia, and to amend the law relating to certain contracts with such Aboriginal natives'' (statute 25/1886); ''An Act to provide certain matters connected with the Aborigines'' (statute 24/1889). The Board was replaced in 1898 by the Aborigines Department. Current status The department took its current name in May 2013. On 28 April 2017 Premier Mark McGowan announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
