The Iningai (Yiningayi) were an
indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
people of the present-day
Longreach Region
The Longreach Region is a local government area in Central West Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it superseded three previous local government areas that had existed for more than a century.
It has an estimated operating budget of A ...
in the state of
Queensland
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, established_title = Before federation
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.
Country
The Iningai lay to the west of the
Great Dividing Range
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as far as the Forsyth Range,
Maneroo Creek, and
Longreach
Longreach is a town and a locality in the Longreach Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Longreach Regional Council, which was established in 2008 as a merger of the former Longreach, Ilfracombe, and Isisford s ...
.
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 ...
estimated their territory as encompassing an area close to 19,500 sq. miles. Their southern frontier lay along the tributaries of the
Alice River down to the vicinity of
Mexico
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.
Their northern limits were at
Muttaburra
Muttaburra is an outback town and locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia. Muttaburra was the discovery site of the ''Muttaburrasaurus'', one of Australia's most famous dinosaurs.
Geography
Muttaburra is in the central west ...
,
Cornish Creek, Tower
Hill,
Bowen Downs, and
North Oakvale. They were also present at
Aramac.
Muttaburra derives its name from one of the Iningai clan names.
Social organization
The Iningai were composed of several Band societyhordes, some of whose names survive:-
* ''Muttaburra.''
* ''Tateburra.'' (north of Cornish Creek)
* ''Terreburra.'' (Alice River)
Alternative names
* ''Muttaburra.''
* ''Mutabura, Moothaburra, Mootaburra.''
* ''Tateburra.''
* ''Terreburra.''
* ''Kana.''
Notes
Citations
Sources
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland