The Mudburra, also spelt Mudbara and other variants, 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
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...
.
Language
Mudburra is one of the far eastern forms of the
Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages.
Country
The Mudburra people live in the thick scrub area near and west of the
Murranji Track (the Ghost Road of the Drovers) and held in
Tindale's estimation some of land, centered on the junction of the Armstrong River
Armstrong River
/ref> and the upper Victoria River at a place called ''Tjambutjambulani''. Their northern reach ran as far as Top Springs, their frontier to the south lay a
Cattle Creek
In an east–west axis, their land extended from near Newcastle Waters to the Camfield River.
Alternative names
* ''Madbara''
* ''Moodburra, Mootburra''
* ''Mudbara''
* ''Mudbera''
* ''Mudbra''
* ''Mudbura''
* ''Mudburra''
* ''Mulpira'' ( Iliaura exonym
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)
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See also
* Ngumpit, a name used by the Gurindji, Malngin, Bilinara, Mudburra and Ngarinyman peoples to refer to themselves as a group
*Wave Hill walk-off
The Wave Hill walk-off, also known as the Gurindji strike, was a walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families, starting on 23 August 1966 and lasting for seven years. It took place at Wave Hill, a cattle stati ...
, in which Mudbara workers joined the Gurindji strike in 1967
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory