The Kalamaia 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 the
Wheatbelt and
Goldfields-Esperance regions of
Western Australia
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Country
According to
Norman Tindale
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, Kalamaia lands stretched over some . Their eastward extension ran to
Bullabulling, while the northern boundaries lay around
Youanmi,
Lake Barlee
Lake Barlee is an intermittent salt lake. With a surface area of , it is the second largest lake in Western Australia.
Description
Lake Barlee is situated on the Yilgarn block southeast of Youanmi, Western Australia, Youanmi and north of Bull ...
, and Pigeon Rocks. To the west, their frontier was in the areas covered by
Burracoppin,
Mukinbudin,
Kalannie, and Lake Moore. Their southern flank went to
Mount Holland in the Parker Range. A term Jawan is applied to northwestern portions of tribe from. These lands included places like
Boorabbin and
Southern Cross
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.
Social organization and customs
The Kalamaia figure in the forefront of those tribes that included circumcision in their initiation ceremonies, and the called contiguous southwestern tribes which did not share this rite ''Mudia/Mudila/Mudilja'', a pejorative word referring to their physical states. Another term for such ''Mudiya'' was ''Minang'' ((people of the) south).
Daisy Bate's also refers to the tribes that occupied southern cross as Eastern Meenung with their territory ending near
Boorabbin.
Alternative names
* ''Ka'la:mai, Kalamaya, Kalamai''
* ''Kaprun''
* ''Jungaa'' (meaning "men")
* ''Jungal''
* ''Yungar, Youngar, Youngal''
* ''Takalako'' (
Njakinjaki
The Njakinjaki (Nyaki Nyaki) are an indigenous Noongar people of southern Western Australia, in the Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions.
Country
Njakinjaki traditional territory embraced some of land. They were east of Lake Grace, at Newdega ...
exonym
An endonym (also known as autonym ) is a common, name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate them ...
)
* ''Njindango''
* ''Natingero''
* ''Jawan'' (term used of Kalamaia clans north of Mukinbudin)
* ''Jaburu'' ("north")
* ''Yabro''
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia
Goldfields–Esperance