Yankunytjatjara Explained

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

Language

See main article: Yankunytjatjara dialect.

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 22000mi2. These lands took in the areas of the Musgrave Ranges, with their eastern frontier around the Everard Ranges.

Social organisation

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

Alternative names

• Alinjera. ('north')
• Ankundjara
• Everard Range Tribe
• Jangkundjadjara
• Jangundjara, Jankundjadjara, Jankunzazara, Jankuntjatjara, Jankuntjatara, Jankundjindjara.
• Kaltjilandjara. (a Pitjantjatjara exonym, but referring to the most southwestern of the Yankuntjatjarra hordes).
• Nankundjara (typo?)
• Wirtjapakandja
• 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

Sources

• Web site: Aboriginal South Australia . . .
• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 28 July 2023 . . .
• The Concept of 'The Tribe' in the Western Desert of Australia . Berndt . Ronald M. . Ronald Berndt . . December 1959 . 30 . 2 . 81–107 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1959.tb00213.x . 40329194.
• Language of the Everard Range tribes . Black . J. M . John McConnell Black . . Adelaide . . 1915 . 39 . 732–735 .
• Vocabularies of four South Australian languages, Adelaide, Narrunga, Kukata, and Narrinyeri, with special reference to their speech sounds . Black . J. M . John McConnell Black . . Adelaide . . 1920 . 44 . 76–93 .
• Kinship in Western Central Australia . Fry . M. K. . . June 1934 . 4 . 4 . 472–478 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1934.tb00123.x . 27976165.
• Anthropology of the Elder Exploring Expedition. 1871-1872 . Helms . R. . Richard Helms (naturalist) . . Adelaide . . 1896 . 16 . 237–332 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Jangkundjara (SA) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/jangkundjara.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6.
• Anthropological Expedition to the North-West of South Australia, 1933 . Tindale . Norman Barnett . Hackett . C. J. . Norman Tindale . . September 1933 . 4 . 1 . 99–105 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb00090.x . 40327448.
• Book: Wells, L. A. . Journal of the Elder Scientific Expedition, 1891-1892 . 1893 . Adelaide .
• Book: White, S. A. . In the far north-west; an expedition to the Musgrave and Everard Ranges . 1916 . Samuel Albert White . W.K. Thomas . Adelaide.