Anmatyerr

{{main|Anmatyerr language}}

Anmatyerr{{AIATSIS|C8.1|Anmatyerr}} is divided into Eastern and Western dialects,{{cite web|url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/anma1239|website=Glottolog|title=Anmatyerre|access-date=10 June 2019}} both dialects of Upper Arrernte.{{sfn|Breen|2001|pp=45–69}} The linguist Jennifer Green has been key to documenting the Anmatyerr language and the anthropologist Jason M. Gibson has written about Anmatyerr history, language and ceremonial practice.

In 1974 the traditional lands of the Anmatyerr people in N.B. Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia were described as covering an area of {{convert|11,200|sqmi|e6ha e6acre|order=out|abbr=off}}. He specifies its central features as encompassing the Forster Range, Mount Leichhardt (Arnka),[https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-2243918&fid=412&c=australia Mount Leichhardt]{{full citation needed |date=April 2025}} Coniston, Stuart Bluff Range to the east of West Bluff; the Hann and Reynolds Ranges (Arwerlt Atwaty); the Burt Plain north of Rembrandt Rocks and Connor Well. Their eastern frontier went as far as Woodgreen. To the northeast, their borders lay around central Mount Stuart (Amakweng) and Harper Springs.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=220}}

Anmatyerr communities located within the region include Nturiya (Old Ti Tree Station), Ti-Tree Pmara Jutunta (6 Mile), Willowra, Laramba (Napperby Station) and Alyuen. What is today known as the Anmatyerr region has overlap with Warlpiri, Arrernte and Alyawarr language communities. Many people come from two or three different language groups. The Utopia community, {{cvt|250|km}} northeast of Alice Springs, and set up in 1927, is partly on Alyawarr land, partly on land of the Anmatyerr. As a specialist in Arandic culture and language T. G. H Strehlow also worked with Anmatyerr people throughout his career, recording much of their ceremonial traditions.{{sfn|Gibson|2020}}

• Anmatjara
• Imatjera
• Janmadjara/Janmadjari (Warlpiri exonym)
• Janmatjiri (Pintupi exonym)
• Nmatjera
• Unmatjera (mainly an Aranda exonym)
• Urmitchee
• Yanmedjara, Yanmadjari{{sfn|Meggitt|1961|p=143}}{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=220}}

• Gwoya/Kwatye Jungarrayi, aka "One Pound Jimmy", was the first named Aboriginal person to appear on an Australian postage stamp, in 1950. Gwoya is the Anmatyerr word for 'water', Kwatye.
• Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, stepsons of Gwoya/Kwatye Jungarrayi, were Anmatyerr artists credited as leaders of the Contemporary Indigenous Australian art movement.
• Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri/Peltharr, was a key innovator of the desert painting movement
• Kaapa Tjampitjinpa was closely related to Anmatyerr families at Napperby Station
• Emily Kngwarreye was an Anmatyerr artist who lived at Utopia community.
• Michael Long (footballer), Australian rules footballer
• Ben Long, Australian rules footballer
• Jake Long, Australian rules footballer
• Kathleen Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre, and Jeanna Petyarre and two other sisters, nieces of Emily Kngwarreye, are well-known Alyawarre / Eastern Anmatyerre artists, also at Utopia.
• Minnie Pwerle was an Alyawarr / Anmatyerr artist.

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{{Reflist|20em}}

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• {{cite book| chapter = Chapter 4: The wonders of Arandic phonology

| last = Breen | first = Gavan | year = 2001

| title = Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages

| editor1-last = Simpson | editor1-first = Jane

| editor2-last = Nash | editor2-first = David

| editor3-last = Laughren | editor3-first = Mary

| editor4-last = Austin | editor4-first = Peter

| editor5-last = Alpher | editor5-first = Barry

| publisher = ANU. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. (Pacific Linguistics)

| series = Pacific Linguistics 512

| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43456489 | format = pdf | via = ResearchGate

| pages = 45–69

| isbn = 085883524-X

}}

• {{cite book| title = Ceremony Men

| last = Gibson | first = Jason M. | year = 2020

| publisher = SUNY Press

| url = https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6880-ceremony-men.aspx

| isbn = 978-143847855-5

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Notes on the Malngjin and Gurindgi aborigines of Limbunya, Northern Territory

| last = Meggitt | first = M. J.

| author-link = Mervyn Meggitt

| journal = Mankind

| date = September 1955 | volume = 5 | issue = 2 | pages = 45–50

| doi = 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1955.tb01418.x

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = The Bindibu and Others

| last = Meggitt | first = M. J.

| author-link = Mervyn Meggitt

| journal = Man

| date = August 1961 | volume = 61 | page = 143

| jstor = 2796739

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Marriage and descent in North Australia

| last = Radcliffe-Brown | first = Alfred

| author-link = Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

| journal = Science of Man

| location = Sydney

| year = 1911 | volume = 13–14 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 63–64, 81–82

}}

• {{Cite book| title = Northern Tribes of Central Australia

| last1 = Spencer | first1 = Sir Baldwin

| last2 = Gillen | first2 = Francis J.

| author1-link = Walter Baldwin Spencer

| author2-link = Francis James Gillen

| year = 1904

| publisher = Macmillan Publishers

| url = https://archive.org/details/northerntribesc00gillgoog | format = PDF | via = Internet Archive

}}

• {{Cite book| title = Aranda traditions

| last = Strehlow | first = T. G. H. | year = 1947

| author-link = Ted Strehlow

| publisher = Melbourne University Press

}}

• {{Cite book| chapter = Culture, social structure, and environment

| last = Strehlow | first = T. G. H. | year = 1965

| author-link = Ted Strehlow

| title = Aboriginal Man in Australia

| editor1-last = Berndt | editor1-first = R. M. | editor1-link = Ronald Berndt

| editor2-last = Berndt | editor2-first = C. H. | editor2-link = Catherine Berndt

| publisher = Angus & Robertson

| pages = 121–145

}}

• {{Cite book| chapter = Anmatjera (NT)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974

| author-link = Norman Tindale

| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names

| publisher = Australian National University Press

| chapter-url = http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindale/HDMS/tindaletribes/anmatjera.htm

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050908092419/http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindale/HDMS/tindaletribes/anmatjera.htm

| archive-date = 8 September 2005

| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6

}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060821073942/http://www.bushtel.nt.gov.au/portal/page?_pageid=53%2C756278&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&p_context_id=861 Northern Territory Govt]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070205151016/http://www.anmatjere.nt.gov.au/ Anmatjerre Community Government Council]
• [https://ingkantety.org.au/ Anengkerr Anmatyerr Ingkantety Project]

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