Karrangpurru

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The Karrangpurru are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory. They suffered severe population loss very early on in the period of colonial expropriations of their land.

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Country

The Karrangpurru lived to the north of the Bilinara. [1] Tindale combines the Karrangpurru with the Bilinara, thus the estimated ancestral territory of the Karrangpurru is approximately 3,750 square miles (9,700 km2). [2] [ page needed ]

History of contact

Karrangpurru lands were subsumed into the Victoria River Downs Station when it was established in 1883. [1] A combination of massacres and the impact of diseases introduced by whites penetrating their country effectively decimated the population. [3] The descendants of the survivors of the colonial period live in the community of Yarralin and town of Katherine.[ citation needed ]

Language

Nothing is known of their language, Karranga, since its many of its speakers were wiped out without any items from it being recorded. [3]

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References

    1. 1 2 Meakins & Nordlinger 2014, p. 16.
    2. Tindale 1974.
    3. 1 2 Meakins & Nordlinger 2014, p. 17.

    Sources

    • Meakins, Felicity; Nordlinger, Rachel (2014). A Grammar of Bilinarra: An Australian Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   978-1-614-51274-5.
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN   978-0-708-10741-6.