Marditjali

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The Marditjali were an Indigenous Australian people, a small tribe, distinct from the Jaadwa whose lands extended from the state of Victoria to South Australia. [1]

The Jardwadjali are Indigenous Australians of the State of Victoria, whose traditional lands occupy the lands in the upper Wimmera River watershed east to Gariwerd (Grampians) and west to Lake Bringalbert.

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Name

Marditjali may not be the term used by the tribe itself, but an exonym applied to them by tribes to their west. [2] Since the ethnonym is composed of two words marti ("abrupt/difficult to understand") and tjale (speech) from Westernj languages indicating their language was hard to grasp.

Language

The Marditjali name for their language is unknown, but it was called Wintjabarap, designating the Wintjintanga horde by tribes to their west.

Country

Marditjali ranged over a traditional land encompassing around 2,000 square miles (5,200 km2) from. Naracoorte in South Australia to the Victorian Wimmera area of Goroke and west of Mount Arapiles; They ranged as far south as Struan, Apsley, and Edenhope. Their northern boundaries were around Bangham, Kaniva, and Servicetown. [1]

Naracoorte, South Australia Town in South Australia

Naracoorte is a town in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, approximately 336 kilometres south-east of Adelaide and 100 kilometres north of Mount Gambier on the Riddoch Highway (A66).

Wimmera Region in Victoria, Australia

The Wimmera is a region of the Australian state of Victoria. The district is located within parts of the Loddon Mallee and the Grampians regions; and covers the dryland farming area south of the range of Mallee scrub, east of the South Australia border and north of the Great Dividing Range. It can also be defined as the land within the social catchment of Horsham, its main settlement.

Goroke, Victoria Town in Victoria, Australia

Goroke is a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria. The town is located in the Shire of West Wimmera local government area, 370 kilometres (230 mi) north west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Goroke recorded a population of 299.

Marditjali tribal areas were characterized by swampy zones encircled by imposing country was characterized by large red gum forests The frontier with the Bungandidj (Buandik) around Eden hope was marked by a brusque change in tree type, as red gums yielded to scrub gums. Their western boundaries with the Meintangk on the Naracoorte Range are likewise ecologically defined by the rising terraces of wooded lime sand dunes. [3]

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The Bungandidj people are Indigenous Australians from the Mount Gambier region in south-eastern South Australia, and also in western Victoria. Bungandidj was historically frequently rendered as "Boandik".

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Social organisation

The Marditjali were divided into several hordes

Alternative names

Some words

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