Nokaan
TheNokaanorNhugarnwere anAboriginal Australianpeople of theMid Westregion ofWestern Australia.
Country
[edit]The Nokaan dwelt on the plateau west of theMurchison,at least as far south from Curbur to Yallalong and Coolcalaya. Their inland extension to the south went close toNorthampton.According toNorman Tindale,who estimated their lands as embracing about 4,700 square miles (12,000 km2) of territory, they pushed into the coastal strip only relatively recently after the onset of contact with white settlers.[1]
Running clock-wise from north, their neighbours were theMalgana,Watjarri,Widi,then theAmangusouth, and theNandadirectly east.
Alternative names
[edit]- Noga:n(Malganaexonym)
- Nagadja(easterners, anAmanguexonym for circumcised tribes lying to the east ofGeraldton)
- Nagodja(aWatjarriexonym)
- Ngadja
- Akadja, Akady, Akadi
- Wiludjanu(another Watjarri language-denoting exonym, signifying 'western talk')[1]
Notes
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^abTindale 1974,p. 254.
Sources
[edit]- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia".AIATSIS.14 May 2024.
- "Tindale Tribal Boundaries"(PDF).Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia.September 2016.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett(1974)."Nokaan (WA)".Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names.Australian National University Press.ISBN978-0-708-10741-6.Archived fromthe originalon 20 March 2020.
- Walcott, P. (1863). "A Short Vocabulary of Aboriginal Words, Collected at Nichol Bay".Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London.2:249–251.doi:10.2307/3014322.JSTOR3014322.