The Tharrkari, also referred to as the Targari, are an

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people of the

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region of

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Language

The Tharrkari spoke one of four dialects of Mantharta, the other members of the

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being the Thiin, Warriyangka and Djiwarli.

Country

The Tharrkari's traditional lands were calculated by

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 ...

to have covered from , including the coastal plain south of the

Lyndon River Minilya is a location in Western Australia north of Carnarvon on the North West Coastal Highway. It is at a junction in the North West Coastal Highway, where the turn off to Exmouth is from that location. The main highway then continues to t ...

and Lyndon Station, to west of Round Hill, and running east as far as Hill Springs and the headwaters of the

Minilya River The Minilya River is a river in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Location and features The headwaters of the river rise in the south-west of the Black Range and flows in a generally westerly direction, joined by three minor tributarie ...

. Their southern boundary was around Middalya, Moogooree, and the Kennedy Range. Their eastern border was with the Wariangga and the

Malgaru The Malgaru were an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia. They might have been a subgroup of the Wariangga. Country The Malgaru ranged over, in Norman Tindale's estimation, some of territory to the east of the Kennedy Range, and ...

History of contact

With the advent of white colonization and pressures from coastal development, the Tharrkari are said to have migrated eastwards to the

Lyons River The Lyons River is a river in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The headwaters of the Lyons rise just west of the Teano Range and the river flows generally south-west, joined by 36 tributaries including the Edmund River, Frederick Riv ...

Alternative names

* ''Dalgari, Tarlgarri'' * ''Dargari'' * ''Tarkari, Tarkarri'' * ''Tarugar'' Source:

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* * * * * * {{Authority control Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia Gascoyne