Murunitja
{{Short description|Indigenous Western Australian people}}
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The Murunitja are an indigenous Australian people of Western Australia located within the Goldfields-Esperance region.
Name
The ethnonym Murunitja appears to derive for a word murun, meaning a "stout person", referring to the characteristic build of the tribe.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=249}}
Language
The Murunitja language is closely related to Mirnung and Ngadjunmaya.
Country
Murunitja country covered about {{convert|11,000|mi2|km2}} from the northern edge of the Nullarbor Plain at Naretha to Loongana. They also ranged as far as Rawlinna and the Walawuluna Rockhole.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=249}}
Alternative names
- Mooroon
- Murnidja
- Mara (?)
- Kogara ('east'){{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=249}}
Notes
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=Citations=
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Sources
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- {{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia
| date = 14 May 2024
| publisher = AIATSIS
| url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia
| ref = {{harvid|AIATSIS}}
}}
- {{Cite web| title = Tindale Tribal Boundaries
| publisher = Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia
| url = https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf
| date = September 2016
| ref = {{harvid|TTB|2016}}
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Tribal Migrations and Myths Centring on Ooldea, South Australia
| last = Berndt | first = R. M.
| author-link = Ronald Berndt
| journal = Oceania
| volume = 12 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–20
| jstor = 40327930
| date = September 1941
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1941.tb00343.x }}
- {{Cite journal | title = Death, Burial, and Associated Ritual at Ooldea, South Australia
| last1 = Berndt | first1 = R. M.
| last2 = Johnston | first2 = T. Harvey
| author1-link = Ronald Berndt
| journal = Oceania
| volume = 12 | issue = 3 | pages = 189–208
| jstor = 40327948
| date = March 1942
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1942.tb00357.x }}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Murunitja (WA)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
| year = 1974
| publisher = Australian National University
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/murunitja.htm
| archive-date = 20 March 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/murunitja.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
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{{Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia}}
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