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The Wanggamala people, also spelt Wangkamahdla, Wangkamadla, Wangkamanha, Wangkamana, Wonkamala, Wongkamala, Wonkamudla, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory and Queensland.

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In Norman Tindale's estimate, Wanggamala tribal lands covered some 20,000 square miles (52,000 km2) of territory. [1] They roamed north-west of Annandale, at Kalidawarry and around the lower Field and Hay rivers, along the Plenty river, and on the eastern margins of the Simpson Desert. [1] River waters were ephemeral and they dug native wells (mikari).[ citation needed ]

In July 2021, the Wanggamala people, spelt Wangkamahdla in the claim, won native title rights to over 3,000,000 ha (7,400,000 acres) west and south-west of Boulia, stretching from around Bedourie, Queensland, across to the Northern Territory border, including Cravens Peak Reserve (named Pilungah Reserve in October 2021 [2] ) and part of the Munga-Thirri National Park. [3]

Language

Their language was Wanggamala, which is now extinct. [4]

Economy

The Wanggamala lived in areas where the native tobacco pituri grows and, aside from using it themselves, they employed it as a valuable trading resource. [1]

Alternative names

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 Tindale 1974, p. 238.
    2. 1 2 Barry, Derek (15 October 2021). "Boulia's Cravens Peak is renamed Pilungah". The North West Star . Retrieved 15 October 2021.
    3. 1 2 "Wangkamahdla People celebrate Queensland Native Title ruling". NITV . 15 July 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
    4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 C9 Wanggamala at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
    5. ↑ Caddy, Amelia (14 October 2021). "Introducing Pilungah Reserve". Bush Heritage Australia. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
    6. ↑ Horton, David R. (1996). "Map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS .

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