The Muringura, or Murrinh-Kura, 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
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 ...
.
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 ...
's estimate, the Muringura had some 800 sq. miles of territory in the area east of the Macadam Range, and running along the coastal swamps bordering the around at the mouth of the
Fitzmaurice River. Their northern borders lay on the
Moyle River
The Moyle River is a river in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Course
The river rises on a plateau area near the Wingate Mountains and flows in a north westerly direction through mostly uninhabited country through a narrow valley then across t ...
divide.
People and language
The Muringura spoke a distinct dialect, traces of which remain in the speech of descendants, after their group was assimilated into the larger
Murrinh-Patha group. .
Alternative names
* ''Murinkura''
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory