The Bidjara or Pitjara are an
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Isl ...
people of eastern
Queensland
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, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, establishe ...
. They are to be distinguished from the
Bidjara of southwestern Queensland and the
Badjiri
The Badjiri people, also written Budjari or Badyidi, are an Australian Aboriginal people of just north of the Paroo River, close to the southern border of Queensland.
They are not to be confused with the Pitjara/Bidjara people of the Warrego ...
of southern Queensland.
Country
The Pitjara were estimated by
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
Life
Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1900. His family moved to Tokyo and lived ther ...
to have tribal lands of approximately , beginning with the areas of the headwaters of
Nogoa and
Warrego rivers. Their territorial extensions ran north of
Augathella
Augathella is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia.
Geography
Augathella lies on the Matilda Highway, is north of the town of Charleville, west of Roma and west of Brisbane (Queensland's capital). The ...
, to
Mantuan Downs. Their eastern limits were around
Killarney and Chesterton. To the south, they were present as far as Caroline, while their western borders were on the
Nive River.
History
Tindale entertained the possibility that the Pitjara and Badjiri split up, before the advent of white settlement, as a result of an easterly thrust by other tribes which caused them to develop as independent tribal realities.
Alternative names
* ''Bidjera.''
* ''Peechera.''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland