Yankunytjatjara

The Yankunytjatjara people, also written Yankuntjatjarra, Jangkundjara, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of South Australia.

Language

Yankunytjatjara is a Western Desert language belonging to the Wati language family of the Pama-Nyungan languages.

Country

According to the estimation of Norman Tindale, the Yankunytjatjara's tribal lands covered approximately 22,000 square miles (57,000 km²). These lands took in the areas of the Musgrave Ranges, with their eastern frontier around the Everard Ranges.^[1]

Social organisation

Yankunytjatjara kinship terminology shares many common terms with the words for kinship in the Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara dialects.^[2]

Alternative names

Alinjera. ('north')
Ankundjara
Everard Range Tribe
Jangkundjadjara
Jangundjara, Jankundjadjara, Jankunzazara,^[3] Jankuntjatjara, Jankuntjatara, Jankundjindjara.^[2]
Kaltjilandjara. (a Pitjantjatjara exonym, but referring to the most southwestern of the Yankuntjatjarra hordes).
Nankundjara (typo?)
Wirtjapakandja^[1]
Yankunjara, Yangundjadjara, Janggundjara, Jangwundjara. (typo)

Notable people

Eileen Kampakuta Brown, anti-nuclear activist and Goldman Environmental Prize winner
Yami Lester, anti-nuclear and indigenous rights advocate
Tali Tali Pompey, artist
Whiskey Tjukangku, elder, and artist
Lowitja O'Donoghue, indigenous rights activist
Ali Cobby Eckermann, poet, author, and artist

Notes

Citations

^ ^a ^b Tindale 1974, p. 212.
^ ^a ^b Fry 1934, p. 478.
^ Tindale & Hackett 1933, p. 102.

Sources

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[FOOTNOTETindale1974212-1] Tindale 1974, p. 212.

[FOOTNOTEFry1934478-2] Fry 1934, p. 478.

[FOOTNOTETindaleHackett1933102-3] Tindale & Hackett 1933, p. 102.

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