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 Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
.
Language
Jaminjung 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.
Country
W. E. H. Stanner, writing in 1936, placed the Djamindjung between the north bank of the
Victoria River to the south bank of the
Fitzmaurice River, 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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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory