The Nokaan or Nhugarn were an

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people of the

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region of

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Country

The Nokaan dwelt on the plateau west of the Murchison, at least as far south from Curbur to Yallalong and Coolcalaya. Their inland extension to the south went close to

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. According to

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, who estimated their lands as embracing about of territory, they pushed into the coastal strip only relatively recently after the onset of contact with white settlers. Running clock-wise from north, their neighbours were the

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, then the

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south, and the

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directly east.

Alternative names

* ''Noga:n.'' (

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) * ''Nagadja.''(easterners, an

exonym for circumcised tribes lying to the east of

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) * ''Nagodja.'' (a

exonym) * ''Ngadja.'' * ''Akadja, Akady, Akadi.'' * ''Wiludjanu.'' (Another Watjarri language-denoting exonym, signifying 'western talk').

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* * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia