The Jamindjung, also spelt ''Djamindjung,'' are 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

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

Language

Jaminjung The Jamindjung, also spelt ''Djamindjung,'' are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language Jaminjung belongs to the Yirram branch of the non Pama-Nyungan tongues, and is related closely to the language spoken by the Ng ...

belongs to the Yirram branch of the non Pama-Nyungan tongues, and is related closely to the language spoken by the Ngaliwurru, and, some distantly, to

Nungali The Nungali, otherwise known as the Ilngali (Jilngari, Yilngari), are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Name The name Nungali, now adopted as the general term, differs from the other ethnonym for these people only in havi ...

Country

W. E. H. Stanner William Edward Hanley Stanner CMG (24 November 19058 October 1981), often cited as W.E.H. Stanner, was an Australian anthropologist who worked extensively with Indigenous Australians. Stanner had a varied career that also included journalism in ...

, writing in 1936, placed the Djamindjung between the north bank of the Victoria River to the south bank of the

Fitzmaurice River The Fitzmaurice River is a river in Australia's Northern Territory. Course The river drains into the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in the Timor Sea from a source just north of the Wombungi homestead. The river flows in a westerly direction between th ...

, with an inland extension from the

Timor Sea The Timor Sea ( id, Laut Timor, pt, Mar de Timor, tet, Tasi Mane or ) is a relatively shallow sea bounded to the north by the island of Timor, to the east by the Arafura Sea, and to the south by Australia. The sea contains a number of reefs, ...

he reckoned to be about 100 miles.

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 ...

worked out more specific details, estimating their tribal territory's extent as covering about , from the upper and middle Fitzmaurice through to the Vambarra mountain range and Umyxera Creek, while their southern limits lay at Timber Creek on the Victoria River. Their domain included Bradshaw and the Angalarri River.

Alternative names

* ''Djamunjun'' * ''Djamundon'' * ''Djamadjong'' * ''Jaminjang, Jaminjung'' * ''Kaminjung'' * ''Tjamindjung, Tjaminjun'' * ''Murinyuwen, Murinyuwan''

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* * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory