The Lotiga, also known as the ''Okara,'' 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

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Country

Lotiga country, calculated to extend over some , was situated around the upper Dulhunty tributary of the Ducie river and McDonnell Telegraph Station, between the Paterson and

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stations on the Cape York Telegraph Line.

People

Ursula McConnel Ursula Hope McConnel (1888–1957) was a Queensland anthropologist and ethnographer best remembered for her work with, and the records she made of, the Wik Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula. First trained at University College London, t ...

suggested that the Okara tribe mentioned by

Lauriston Sharp Lauriston Sharp (March 24, 1907 – December 31, 1993) was a Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He was the first person appointed in anthropology at the university, and he created its Southeast A ...

, as belonging to the Jathaikana type of social organization, might be the same as the Lotiga.

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 ...

equated the two on the basis of McConnel's provisory conjecture.

Alternative names

* ''Okara.''(?) * ''Oharra.''

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