The Jamindjung, also spelt ''Djamindjung,'' are an

indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. The ...

people of the

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Language

Jaminjung belongs to the Yirram branch of the non Pama-Nyungan tongues, and is related closely to the language spoken by the Ngaliwurru, and, some distantly, to Nungali.

Country

W. E. H. Stanner William Edward Hanley Stanner CMG (24 November 19058 October 1981), often cited as W.E.H. Stanner, was an Australian anthropologist who worked extensively with Indigenous Australians. Stanner had a varied career that also included journalism in ...

, writing in 1936, placed the Djamindjung between the north bank of the Victoria River to the south bank of the

Fitzmaurice River The Fitzmaurice River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia. Course The river drains into the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in the Timor Sea from a source just north of the Wombungi homestead. The river flows in a westerly direction betw ...

, with an inland extension from the

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he reckoned to be about 100 miles.

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 ...

worked out more specific details, estimating their tribal territory's extent as covering about , from the upper and middle Fitzmaurice through to the Vambarra mountain range and Umyxera Creek, while their southern limits lay at Timber Creek on the Victoria River. Their domain included Bradshaw and the Angalarri River.

Alternative names

* ''Djamunjun'' * ''Djamundon'' * ''Djamadjong'' * ''Jaminjang, Jaminjung'' * ''Kaminjung'' * ''Tjamindjung, Tjaminjun'' * ''Murinyuwen, Murinyuwan''

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* * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory