The Mitaka (alternatively Mithaka) 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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.
Country
In
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 ...
's calculations, the Mitaka, a
Channel Country
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people around
Lake Machattie, are assigned a tribal domain of some from
Durrie in the south northwards as far as
Glengyle
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History
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. Their eastern limits ran close to Monkira, while the western frontier was at Kalidawarry.
Alternative names
* ''Mithaka''
* ''Mittaka''
* ''Mittuka''
* ''Marunga''
* ''Mit:aka'' (putatively a Dieri exonym)
* ''Marrala/ Marranda'' (language names)
* ''Murunuta''
* ''Midaga''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland