Ngurrara

{{Short description|Grouping of Aboriginal Australian peoples of the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia}}

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The Ngurrara and Ngururrpa are overlapping groupings of Aboriginal Australian peoples of the Great Sandy Desert, in the central Pilbara and southern Kimberley regions of Western Australia. Both groups are represented by various Aboriginal corporations which look after their native title interests.

Name

The ethnonym Ngurrara signifies "home".{{sfn|Tran Tran|2016|p=167}} Ngururrpa means "our country in the middle".

Country and people

The word Ngurrara refers to their native country, properly called Mawurritjiyi, the word for the Tanami Desert.{{sfn|Musharbash|2008|p=35}}

The Ngurrara comprise the Walmajarri, Wangkatjunga (aka Martu Wangka), Mangala and Juwaliny (a dialect of Walmajarri) language groups.{{sfn|KLC|2016}}

Peoples of the Walmajarri, Wangkatjunga, Ngarti and Kukatja language groups have called their country Ngururrpa.{{cite web | title=New Ngururrpa Indigenous Protected Area | website=Country Needs People | date=1 August 2018 | url=https://www.countryneedspeople.org.au/ngururrpa_indigenous_protected_area | access-date=14 May 2021}}

Native title

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In Kogolo v Western Australia (2007) the Ngurrara won recognition of their native title rights to {{convert|76,000|km2|mi2}}.{{sfn|Tran|2016|p=166}} They presented their case by drawing a large painting of their land, Ngurrara,{{sfn|Brooks|2003}} inscribed with figures from their mythological history associated with various points.{{sfn|Anker|2008|pp=53–56}} Their land is under the custodianship of the Yanunijarra Aboriginal Corporation.{{sfn|Ngurrarra|2016}}

There are several other native title claims under the Ngurrara name, some overlapping or shared with other groups, such as the Martu people.

Helicopter Tjungarrayi and Ors on behalf of the Ngurra Kayanta People v The State of Western Australia (2012) and Bobby West & Anor v State of Western Australia (2015), jointly known as the Ngurra Kayanta claim, was determined in 2016/7, granting native title over an area of {{convert|19,574.1497 |km2}} in the Great Sandy Desert north of Karratha. Ngurra Kayanta (Aboriginal Corporation) RNTBC is the trustee for this land.{{cite web | title=Ngurra Kayanta | website=Central Desert Native Title Services| date=21 February 2021 | url=https://www.centraldesert.org.au/native-title-item/ngurra-kayanta/ | access-date=15 May 2021}}

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Ngururrpa is the name used for a native title claim to land in the Great Sandy Desert, nearer the border with the Northern Territory.{{cite map|url=http://www.nntt.gov.au/Maps/WA_NTDA_Schedule.pdf| publisher= National Native Title Tribunal|title= Native Title Claimant Applications and Determination Areas, as per the Federal Court (31 March 2021)|date=23 April 2021|quote=Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence.}} In the case Payi Payi on behalf of the Ngururrpa People v The State of Western Australia (FCA 2113) on 18 October 2007, the Federal Court of Australia recognised the Ngururrpa people's exclusive native title rights over an area of over {{convert|29,600|km2}}. The Parna Ngururrpa (Aboriginal Corporation){{cite web | title=Ngururrpa | website=Central Desert Native Title Services| date=15 July 2016 | url=https://www.centraldesert.org.au/native-title-item/ngururrpa/ | access-date=15 May 2021}} is the RNTBC which acts as the trustee for the land.{{cite web | title=Parna Ngururrpa (Aboriginal Corporation) RNTBC | website=PBC | url=https://nativetitle.org.au/find/pbc/7269 | access-date=15 May 2021}}

Indigenous Protected Areas

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The Ngururrpa Indigenous Protected Area (IPA), covering an area of {{convert|29,600|km2}} in the far eastern side of the Pilbara, in the Great Sandy Desert, was declared in October 2020.{{cite web | title=Ngururrpa people in Great Sandy Desert celebrate land becoming Indigenous Protected Area | website=ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) | date=12 May 2021|first= Ted|last= O'Connor | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-13/ngururrpa-indigenous-protected-area-great-sandy-desert/100128756 | access-date=14 May 2021}} The IPA comprises the whole of the 2007 Ngururrpa Native Title Determination.{{cite web | title=Ngururrpa IPA | website=National Indigenous Australians Agency | date=12 October 2020 | url=https://www.niaa.gov.au/indigenous-affairs/environment/ngururrpa-ipa | access-date=15 May 2021}}

See also

References

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| date = 14 May 2024

| publisher = AIATSIS

| url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia

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| last = Anker | first = Kirsten

| year = 2008

| title = Rencontres australiennes: regards croisés sur l'identité d'un peuple et d'une nation

| editor-last = Lagayette | editor-first = Pierre l

| publisher = Presses Paris Sorbonne

| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m8koOrEGvJIC&pg=PA54

| pages = 39–55

| isbn = 978-2-840-50541-9

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| date = 28 July 2003

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| year = 2008

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  • {{cite web| title = Native Title Map-Ngurrara

| year = 2016

| publisher = Kimberley Land Council

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| publisher = Yanunijarra Aboriginal Corporation

| url = http://www.yanunijarra.com/

| ref = {{harvid|Ngurrarra|2016}}

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  • {{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

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| last = Tran | first = Tran

| year = 2016 | orig-year = First published 2015

| title = Indigenous Studies and Engaged Anthropology: The Collaborative Moment

| editor-last = Sillitoe | editor-first = Paul

| publisher = Routledge

| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LS83DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA166

| pages = 163–179

| isbn = 978-1-317-11722-3

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