The Wiyabal (also Widjabal, possibly from confusion of the letter in the older spelling ''Wijabal'') are an

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people of the state of

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. They may be a clan of the

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Country

Norman Tindale assigned the Widyabal about of territory on the Upper Richmond River, running south from

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to the area in the vicinity of

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, with their eastern limits at

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. They have been described as a clan of the

Alternative names

* ''Ettrick tribe'' * ''Noowidal'' * ''Nowgyjul'' * ''Waibra'' * ''Watchee'' * ''Watji'' Source:

Some words

* ''groomon'' or ''kroomon'' (kangaroo) * ''kooning'' (mother) * ''marmong'' (father) * ''tobury'' (tame dog) * ''tucki'' (white man) Source:

Notable people

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, journalist and artistic director * Frank Roberts (1945–2011), boxer, one of three first Indigenous Australians to participate in the Olympics, in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

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* * * * * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of New South Wales