The Madoitja or Tjupany were 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 Isl ...
people of
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
.
Language
The
Madoitja language was one of the
Wati languages
The Wati languages are the dominant Pama–Nyungan languages of central Australia. They include the moribund Wanman language and the Western Desert dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties sp ...
.
Location
The Madoitja lands, according to an inference from contiguous tribal areas by Norman Tindale, ranged over some of territory, from east of the
Three Rivers and
Old Peak Hill to Lakes King and
Nabberu. Their southern confines lay around
Cunyu, touching on the northwestern border of Millrose. They lay north-northeast of the
Wajarri
The Wajarri people, also spelt Wadjari, Wadjarri, Watjarri, and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are in the Mid West region of Western Australia.
Boolardy Station, along with the tiny settlement of ...
.
Alternative names
* ''Konin.''
* ''Marduidji.''
* ''Milamada.''
* ''Wainawonga''
* ''Waula.'' (
Pini 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, ...
meaning "northerners.")
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia