The Ngalia, or Ngalea, 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 the
Western Desert cultural bloc
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resident in land extending from
Western Australia
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to the west of
South Australia
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.
They are not to be confused with the
Ngalia of the
Northern Territory
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.
Country
The Ngalia's traditional lands are around the
salt lake areas, such as the
Serpentine Lakes
The Serpentine Lakes is a chain of salt lakes in the Great Victoria Desert of Australia. It runs for almost along the border between South Australia and Western Australia. When full, the lakes cover an area of . Most of it is located in the Ma ...
in the
Great Victoria Desert
The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert ecoregion and interim Australian bioregion in Western Australia and South Australia.
History
In 1875, British-born Australian explorer Ernest Giles became the first European to cros ...
, northwest of
Ooldea, South Australia, in what is now the
Mamungari Conservation Park.
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 their tribal lands as covering an extension of some .
Language
The Ngalia language, also known as Ooldean, is a dialect of the
Western Desert language.
Alternative names
* ''Nangga'' ('men' in the sense that they had undergone circumcision)
* ''Nanggaranggu''
* ''Nanggarangku'' (
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, ...
bearing the meaning of 'hostile men')
* ''Ngalia, Ngalija''
* ''Ngaliawongga''
* ''Tangara''
* ''Willoorara'' ((people of the) 'west')
* ''Windakan'' (applied to their language, and also to the
Wirangu)
Source:
Notable people
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Kado Muir, artist, anthropologist and politician
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