Wardandi

There are at least three theories about the meaning of the tribal ethnonym. One informant suggested it reflected a word for "crow" (wardan), a theory that sits poorly with early word lists that state that the Wardandi word for that bird is kwa:kum. A second view argues for the sense of "seacoast people"; one source in support of this cites a word variously given as waatu or waatern with the meaning "the ocean". A third hypothesis has it that the name is derived from the word for "no".{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=259}}

Wadandi traditional country covers an estimated {{convert|1800|sqmi}}. Predominantly coastal, it encompasses Busselton and the areas from Bunbury to Cape Leeuwin and Geographe Bay. Inland it reaches the area around Nannup.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=259}}{{cite web | title=Map of Indigenous Australia | website=AIATSIS|first= David R.|last= Horton|date=1996 |author-link= David Horton (writer)| url=https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/map-indigenous-australia | access-date=1 August 2021}}

They were the sole inhabitants of the area for an estimated 45,000 years before the arrival of British colonial settlers at Augusta in 1830, and are one of fourteen language groups of the Bibbulmun (Noongar) peoples.{{cite web | title=Noongar History | website=Western Australian Government | url=https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-the-premier-and-cabinet/noongar-history | access-date=1 August 2021}}

The Wadandi people speak a variety of the Doonan and Dwordan dialects continuum known as Wadandi.{{AIATSIS|W3|Wardandi}}

Wadandi traditional owners guided archaeological researchers to a spot on a granite outcrop near Flinders Bay in Augusta which was excavated and reported on in 2021, revealing grooves and other signs that people ground stones to make tools here around 9,700 years ago.{{cite web | last=Pancia | first=Anthony | title=9,200-year-old Noongar history unearthed at Augusta archaeological dig site | website=ABC News| publisher= Australian Broadcasting Corporation | date=26 July 2021 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-27/noongar-history-unearthed-at-augusta-archaeological-dig/100324450 | access-date=1 August 2021}}

• Waddarndi, Wadarndee, Wardandie, Wardandi
• Wadjandi
• Belliman
• Geographe Bay and Vasse tribe
• Bunbury tribe
• Kardagur ("between" (the two seas))
• Dardanup (toponym)
• Dordenup
• Dunanwongi (language name)
• Doonin
• Dornderupwongy
• Jabaru ("north" among northern tribes)
• Yabaroo
• Wadandi
• Nghungar (njunga is an eastern tribe word for "man".){{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=259}}

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| date= January–June 1914

| journal = Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

| volume =44

| pages = 65–82

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| 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://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wardandi.htm

| archive-date = 20 March 2020

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wardandi.htm

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

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