Warndarrang
The Warndarrang people, (waɳʈaraŋ), also spelt Warndarang, Wanderang, and other variantsAboriginal Australian people of eastern Northern Territory. Though extinct as a distinct ethnolinguistic group, their descendants survive among the neighbouring Nunggubuyu.
Language
Kriol.[3]
Country
The traditional lands of the Warndarang extended over an area in Arnhem Land of some 1,100 square miles (2,800 km2) from the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Phelp River inland to Mount Leane.[4] To their north were the Nunggubuyu while their western borders reached inland, eastwards to the Ngandi territories between the Walker and Rose rivers.[5]
History
In 1903 the
Rembarrnga and Nunggubuyu gathered there for sanctuary from the onslaught.[6] Eventually several clans of the Warndarung were assimilated by the Nunggubuyu by adopting their language.[7]
Notes
Citations
- ^ "N120: Warndarrang". AIATSIS Collection. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ Edmonds 2007, p. 202.
- ^ Rieländer 1997, p. 219.
- ^ Tindale 1974.
- ^ Heath 1978a, p. 2, map.
- ^ Edmonds 2007, pp. 194–195.
- ^ Heath 1978b, p. 16.
Sources
- JSTOR 40329205.
- Edmonds, Angelique (2007). "Sedentary topography: the impact of Christian Mission Society's 'civilising' agenda on the spatial structure of life in the Roper Region of northern Australia". In Macfarlane, Ingereth; Hannah, Mark (eds.). Transgressions: Critical Australian Indigenous Histories. ISBN 978-1-921-31343-1.
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- Heath, Jeffrey (1978a). Linguistic diffusion in Arnhem Land. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
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- Rieländer, Klaus (1997). "The Right to Have TV". In Riemenschneider, Dieter; Davis, Geoffrey V. (eds.). Aratjara: Aboriginal Culture and Literature in Australia. ISBN 978-9-042-00132-9.
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