The Kokowara were 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 state of
Queensland
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.
Name
The
ethnonym
An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used ...
,
applied to them by other tribes, namely Kokowara, means 'rough speech'. Their
autonym
Autonym may refer to:
* Autonym, the name used by a person to refer to themselves or their language; see Exonym and endonym
* Autonym (botany), an automatically created infrageneric or infraspecific name
See also
* Nominotypical subspecies, in zo ...
, or word for themselves, had not been ascertained as of 1974.
Country
According to
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 ...
, the Kokowara had some of tribal land on the
Normanby River
The Normanby River, comprising the East Normanby River, the West Normanby River, the East Normanby River North Branch, the East Normanby River South Branch and the Granite Normanby River, is a river system in Far North Queensland, Australia.
T ...
, extending south from
Lakefield to
Laura and the
Laura River. Their central camping area was at a place called ''Daidan'' on the Deighton River.
Alternative names
* ''Kookawarra''
* ''Coo-oo-warra''
* ''Gugu-Warra''
* ''Laura-Deighton tribe''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland
Far North Queensland