Miwa people

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The Miwa are an indigenous Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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Name

'Miwa' in this area of the Kimberley region is used in the sense of 'salt water/sea', indicating peoples near or on the coast. Three different groups, among them the Yeidji, have been called Miwa in this broader sense. Likewise the Ngarinjin called the Gija, Miwa. [1] In this article the word describes the Miya associated with the King Edward River zone specified below.

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Miya lands extended over 2,200 square miles (5,700 km2). On the coast they lay about the eastern side of Napier Broome Bay, the lower King Edward River and eastwards to about Cape Bernier. Their inland extension reached as far as the vicinity of Mount Connelly, the Drysdale River and the Barton Plain. It also took in an area of the King George River and Manungu, the Miya name for the range at the headwaters of the Berkeley River. [2] The Miwa were often subsumed, together with the Wirngir, under a larger ethnonym, Walar. [3]

Alternative names

Notes

    Citations

    1. ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 153.
    2. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 249.
    3. ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 151.

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