The Nakako are an
Aboriginal Australian
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people of
Western
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and
Southern Australia.
Country
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 ...
estimated the Nakako territorial domains to stretch , south and southwest of the
Blackstone Ranges.
Tindale's estimates, particularly for the
peoples of the Western desert, are not considered to be accurate.
[Tonkinson, Robert (1989).]
"Local Organisation and Land Tenure in the Karlamilyi (Rudall River) Region"
(PDF). In Western Desert Working Group (ed.). ''The significance of the Karlamilyi Region to the Martujarra people of the Western Desert''. Perth: Department of Conservation and Land Management
The Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) was a department of the Government of Western Australia that was responsible for implementing the state's conservation and environment legislation and regulations. It was created by the ...
. pp. 99–259. Tindale also states that the Nanako were present at
Bell Rock Range.
History of contact
The Nakako were one of the last tribes to come within the purview of white explorers. Their first encounter with white explorers occurred sometime around 1953 when patrol officer
Walter MacDougall came across them at
Woomera. After this initial encounter, they vanished, until they were rediscovered by white settlers in 1961.
Alternative names
* ''Nakaku, Nangako.''
* ''Nangakopitja.'' (
Pitjantjatjara
The Pitjantjatjara (; or ) are an Aboriginal people of the Central Australian desert near Uluru. They are closely related to the Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra and their languages are, to a large extent, mutually intelligible (all are va ...
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, ...
).
* ''Wanudjara.''
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia