Kaniyang Explained

The Kaneang are an indigenous Noongar people of the south west region of Western Australia.

Country

The Kaneang traditional lands enclosed some 4800mi2 of territory. On the Upper Blackwood River. The eastern boundary was formed by the line that runs from Katanning, Tambellup, Cranbrook, and Tenterden. Kaneang lands took in Kojonup, Qualeup, Donnybrook, Greenbushes and Bridgetown. They camped around the headwaters of both the Warren and Frankland rivers and along the southern bank of the Collie River as far as Collie.

Alternative names

• Kunjung/Kunyung (Koreng exonym)
• Kadbaranggara (Wiilman exonym from ka:la, "fire")
• Jabururu (Menang word meaning "northerners")
• Yobberore
• Uduc-Harvey tribe
• Kaleap (toponym)
• Qualeup, Qualup, Quailup
• Waal

Some words

See main article: Nyungar language.

• mammon (farther)
• nongan (mother)
• yungar (kangaroo)
• weja (emu)
• dwoda (tame dog)
• yakkine (wild dog)
• iunja (white man)
• gootang-boola' (children)
• quabba (good)
• wakine (bad)

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . . .
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . .
• News: An inquiry respecting the aborigines of south-western Australia . Clark . William Nairne . Swan River Guardian . 4–5 . . Perth. Australia . . 16 February 1842 .
• News: An inquiry respecting the aborigines of south-western Australia 2 . Clark . William Nairne . Swan River Guardian . 4–5 . . Perth. Australia . . 23 February 1842 .
• News: An inquiry respecting the aborigines of south-western Australia 3 . Clark . William Nairne . Swan River Guardian . 4 . . Perth, Australia . . 2 March 1842 .
• Description of the Natives of King George's Sound (Swan River Colony) and Adjoining Country . Nind . Scott . Isaac Scott Nind . . 1831 . 1 . 21–51 . 10.2307/1797657 . 1797657 .
• Book: Small, M. B. . Uduc, Harvey . The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . 1886 . 1 . J. Ferres . Melbourne . https://archive.org/download/australianracei01currgoog/australianracei01currgoog.pdf .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Kaneang (WA) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/kaneang.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/kaneang.htm .