Yeidji

In contemporary accounts, the Yeidji are often called Gwini, also spelt Kwini, people. Norman Tindale, writing in 1974, maintained that Gwini was a directional term meaning "easterners" used by inlanders. The other term, Kujini means those in the coastal lowlands. There is no clear tribal name for several peoples in this area, and some confusion in the nomenclature and the several tribes, including also the Miwa are generally referred to as the Forrest River people,{{sfn|McGregor|2013|p=42}} who, however are occasionally referred to as the Gwini/Yeidji.{{efn|'The tribes on the Forrest River have no common name, but may be collectively called by the name of the southernmost Gwi:ni.'{{sfn|Capell|1939|p=383}} }}

The Yeidji, according to Norman Tindale, controlled some {{convert|1,000|mi2|km2}} of tribal territory, running from the coast of Cambridge Gulf along the Forrest River as far as the Milligan ranges. Its southern extension touched Steere Hills. The northernmost boundary lay at Mount Carty and the Lyne River.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=243}} Their neighbours were the Wilawila to the west, the Wenamba to the northwest, the Wirngir to the east, and the Arnga on their southern border. The Guragona horde, though classified as a subgroup of the Wenamba, may have been a section of the Yeidji.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=243}}

Today they are the traditional owners by succession of Sir Graham Moore Island, off the Kimberley coast. Oral histories and archaeological excavations reveal evidence of interactions with Makassan traders from the 18th century onwards.

{{main|Yiiji language}}

Yiiji is a dialect of Wunambal.

• Yiiji{{AIATSIS|K32|Yiiji}}
• Yeidji, Yeithi, Yeidthee, Yeeji, Yedji, Jeidji, Jeithi
• Gwi:ni, Gwini, Kuini ("easterners")
• Kujini, Gu:jini, Kuini, Gujini
• Ombalkari (toponym east of the Forrest River Mission)
• Umbalgari
• Miwu (perhaps a name for the language)
• Miwadange ("saltwater people")
• Waringnari, Waringari (a pejorative exonym suggesting the practice of cannibalism)
• Morokorei (Forrest River horde){{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=243}}{{sfn|Yiiji}}
• Wunambal
• Pikkolatpan
• Bugay
• Worrorran{{sfn|Yiiji}}

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| date = 26 July 2019

| publisher = AIATSIS

| url = https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/k32

| ref = {{harvid|Yiiji}}

}}

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}}

• {{Cite web| title = Tindale Tribal Boundaries

| publisher = Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia

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| date = September 2016

| ref = {{harvid|TTB|2016}}

}}

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| last = Capell | first = Arthur

| author-link = Arthur Capell

| journal = Oceania

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| date = June 1939

| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00246.x | jstor = 40327760

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = The Classification of Languages in North and North-West Australia (Continued)

| last = Capell | first = Arthur

| author-link = Arthur Capell

| journal = Oceania

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| date = June 1940

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| author-link = A. P. Elkin

| journal = Oceania

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| date = June 1933

| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb01679.x | jstor = 40327434

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• {{Cite journal | title = The Forrest River and Lyne River Tribes of North-West Australia: A Report on Field Work

| last = Kaberry | first = Phyllis M.

| author-link = Phyllis Kaberry

| journal = Oceania

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| date = June 1935

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• {{Cite book| title = The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia

| last = McGregor | first = William B.

| author-link = William B. McGregor

| year = 2013

| publisher = Routledge

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JDBnDeJ3uDwC&pg=PA42

| isbn = 978-1-134-39602-3

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• {{Cite book| chapter = Jeidji (WA)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett

| author-link = Norman Tindale

| year = 1974

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

| publisher = Australian National University

| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/jeidji.htm

| archive-date = 20 March 2020

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

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

}}

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