The Mudburra, also spelt Mudbara and other variants, 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 Islands ...
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
Mudburra
The Mudburra, also spelt Mudbara and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
Mudburra is one of the far eastern forms of the Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages.
Country
The Mudburra people live i ...
is one of the far eastern forms of the
Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages
Ngumbin (or Ngumpin) languages are a small language family of Australia, consisting of (from west to east):
*Walmajarri
*Djaru
* Gurindji (Gurindji proper, Bilinarra, Wanyjirra, Malngin, Ngarinyman)
*Mudburra
In 2004 it was demonstrated that N ...
.
Country
The Mudburra people live in the thick scrub area near and west of the
Murranji Track (the Ghost Road of the Drovers) and held in
Tindale's estimation some of land, centered on the junction of the Armstrong River
Armstrong River
/ref> and the upper Victoria River at a place called ''Tjambutjambulani''. Their northern reach ran as far as Top Springs, their frontier to the south lay a
Cattle Creek
In an east–west axis, their land extended from near Newcastle Waters
Newcastle Waters is a town and locality off the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory. The nearest petrol station and accommodation is found south at Elliott. The Newcastle Waters School draws most of its few students from the Marlinja hom ...
to the Camfield River.
Alternative names
* ''Madbara''
* ''Moodburra, Mootburra''
* ''Mudbara''
* ''Mudbera''
* ''Mudbra''
* ''Mudbura''
* ''Mudburra''
* ''Mulpira''. (Iliaura
The Alyawarre, also spelt Alyawarr and also known as the Iliaura, are an Aboriginal Australian people, or language group, from the Northern Territory. The Alyawarre are made up of roughly 1,200 associated peoples and actively engage in local tra ...
exonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
)
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See also
*Ngumpit
The Gurindji are an Aboriginal Australian people of northern Australia, southwest of Katherine in the Northern Territory's Victoria River region.
Language and culture
Gurindji is one of the eastern Ngumbin languages, in the Ngumbin-Yapa su ...
, a name used by the Gurindji Gurindji may refer to:
* Gurindji, Northern Territory, a locality in Australia
*Gurindji people, an Australian Aboriginal people
**Gurindji language, the language of the Gurindji people
**Gurindji Kriol language, the main language now spoken by Guri ...
, Malngin
The Malngin are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Malngin language was a dialect of Gurindj.
Country
Norman Tindale estimated their tribal lands to have encompassed some and placed their wester ...
, Bilinara
The Bilinarra, also spelt Bilingara and Bilinara, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
The Bilinarra language is classified as an eastern variety of one of the Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages. It is mutually ...
, Mudburra and Ngarinyman
The Ngarinman or Ngarinyman people are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory who spoke the Ngarinyman language.
Country
According to an estimate made by Norman Tindale, the Ngarinman held some of territory. Their central dom ...
peoples to refer to themselves as a group
*Wave Hill walk-off
The Wave Hill walk-off, also known as the Gurindji strike, was a walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families, starting on 23 August 1966 and lasting for seven years. It took place at Wave Hill, a cattle stati ...
, in which Mudbara workers joined the Gurindji strike in 1967.
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory