The Bidjara or Pitjara are an
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 year ...
people of eastern
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
. They are to be distinguished from the
Bidjara of southwestern Queensland and the
Badjiri of southern Queensland.
Country
The Pitjara were estimated by
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 ...
to have tribal lands of approximately , beginning with the areas of the headwaters of
Nogoa and
Warrego rivers. Their territorial extensions ran north of
Augathella
Augathella is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Augathella had a population of 328 people.
Geography
Augathella lies on the Matilda Highway, is north of the town of Charlevil ...
, to
Mantuan Downs. Their eastern limits were around
Killarney and Chesterton. To the south, they were present as far as Caroline, while their western borders were on the
Nive River.
History
Tindale entertained the possibility that the Pitjara and Badjiri split up, before the advent of white settlement, as a result of an easterly thrust by other tribes which caused them to develop as independent tribal realities.
Alternative names
* ''Bidjera''
* ''Peechera''
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