The Nangatadjara 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 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 ...
.
Country
Nangatadjara lands encompassed, according to
Tindale, approximately . Their north-northeastern extension touched the
Bailey, Virginia and Newland Ranges. They roamed eastwards of
Lake Carey
Lake Carey is a salt lake located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It was named in 1869 by surveyor John Forrest in company with Tommy Windich, after Thomas Campbell Carey, the government surveyor to whom Forrest had ...
and
Burtville and around the Jubilee and Plumridge lake areas, and they were present around
Lake Yeo, Rason and the Bartlett Soak.
History of contact
The Nangatadjara are known to have shifted west to Burtville and
Laverton in the last decade of the 19th century.
Alternative names
* ''Nanggatha.''
* ''Nangandjara, Nganandjara.''
* ''Nangata.''
* ''Wangata.''
* ''Dituwonga.''
* ''Ditu.''
* ''Ngalapita.''
* ''Njingipalaru.'' (Waljen
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, ...
signifying "different talk ")
* ''Alindjara.'' ('east'(ern people))
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia
Goldfields-Esperance