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The Madoitja or Tjupany were an indigenous Australian people of Western Australia.

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Language

The Madoitja spoke a dialect variety of one of the Wati languages. [1]

Location

The Madoitja lands, according to an inference from contiguous tribal areas by Norman Tindale, ranged over some 9,000 sq. miles of territory, from east of the Three Rivers and Old Peak Hill to Lakes King and Nabberu. Their southern confines lay around Cunyu, touching on the northwestern border of Millrose. They lay north-northeast of the Wajarri. [2]

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Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 O'Grady et al. 1966, p. 38.
    2. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 246.
    3. Bates 1913, p. 75.
    4. AIATSIS.

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