Nokaan Explained

See also: Nokaan language. The Nokaan or Nhugarn were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Mid West region of Western Australia.

Country

The Nokaan dwelt on the plateau west of the Murchison, at least as far south from Curbur to Yallalong and Coolcalaya. Their inland extension to the south went close to Northampton. According to Norman Tindale, who estimated their lands as embracing about 4700mi2 of territory, they pushed into the coastal strip only relatively recently after the onset of contact with white settlers.

Running clock-wise from north, their neighbours were the Malgana, Watjarri, Widi, then the Amangu south, and the Nanda directly east.

Alternative names

• Noga:n (Malgana exonym)
• Nagadja (easterners, an Amangu exonym for circumcised tribes lying to the east of Geraldton)
• Nagodja (a Watjarri exonym)
• Ngadja
• Akadja, Akady, Akadi
• Wiludjanu (another Watjarri language-denoting exonym, signifying 'western talk')

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Nokaan (WA) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nokaan.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nokaan.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .
• A Short Vocabulary of Aboriginal Words, Collected at Nichol Bay . Walcott . P. . . 1863 . 2 . 249–251 . 10.2307/3014322 . 3014322 .