Nokaan
The Nokaan or Nhugarn were an
Aboriginal Australian people of the Mid West region of Western Australia
.
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 Northampton. According to Norman Tindale, who estimated their lands as embracing about 4,700 square miles (12,000 km2) of territory, they pushed into the coastal strip only relatively recently after the onset of contact with white settlers.[1]
Running clock-wise from north, their neighbours were the
Nanda
directly east.
Alternative names
- Noga:n. (exonym)
- Nagadja.(easterners, an Amangu exonym for circumcised tribes lying to the east of Geraldton)
- Nagodja. (a Watjarriexonym)
- Ngadja.
- Akadja, Akady, Akadi.
- Wiludjanu. (Another Watjarri language-denoting exonym, signifying 'western talk').[1]
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 254.
Sources
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- "Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF). Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia. September 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- Walcott, P. (1863). "A Short Vocabulary of Aboriginal Words, Collected at Nichol Bay". JSTOR 3014322.