Mandjindja

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The Mandjindja or Mantjintjarra are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia belonging to the Western Desert cultural bloc.

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Country

According to Norman Tindale's estimate, [lower-alpha 1] the Mandjindja's territory extended over roughly 21,000 square miles (54,000 km2), in the sandhill terrain south of the Warburton Range, from a place called Papakula. Their western extension went as far as the Gillen and Throssell lakes. Their southern boundaries lay around Amy Rocks and the Saunders Range. Their eastern confines; lay around Lengama, identified provisorily as somewhere possibly east of the Sydney Yeo Chasm. They took in also Wardadikanja in the southeast. [2]

Language

The language of the Mandjindja people is the Mandjindja language.

Native title claim

The Mandjindja and Ngalia sought recognition of their inherent land rights through the native title claim process in the Federal Court of Australia. [3] [4] A 1996 claim was dismissed. [5]

In March 2009 the Mantjintjarra Ngalia claim came a step closer to recognition after passing the registration test of the Native Title Act. [6] They claimed traditional ownership of the area from around Lake Wells in the east to Lake Darlot and Lake Miranda in the west to Cosmo Newberry through to Leonora and Lake Barlee up to Wiluna in the north. The application was discontinued in 2015. [7]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Tindale's estimates particularly for the peoples of the Western desert are not considered to be accurate. [1]

Citations

  1. ↑ Tonkinson 1989, p. 101.
  2. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 247.
  3. ↑ Bid for native title rights, Kalgooorlie Miner, (Kalgoorlie. WA, 6 June 2009), p. 5.
  4. ↑ "Mantjintjarra Ngalia People apply for recognition of native title". National Native Title Tribunal. 3 June 2009a. Archived from the original on 18 September 2009. Retrieved 4 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "Application Details". www.nntt.gov.au.
  6. ↑ "WA - Registration decision - WC06/6-2 Mantjintjarra Ngalia #2". National Native Title Tribunal. 31 March 2009b. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2009.
  7. ↑ "Application Details". www.nntt.gov.au.

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