Yindjilandji
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The Yindjilandji are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
The Yindjilandji language is usually grouped as one of the Ngarna languages, and considered a southern variety, and either a dialect of Wagawa if not an independent language.{{sfn|Dixon|2002|p=xxxix}}
Country
In Norman Tindale's guesstimate, the Yindjilandji ranged over roughly {{convert|8,200|mi2|km2}} of tribal land. They were a Barkly Tableland people, occupying the area about Buchanan Creek and Ranken River, with a western limits toward Dalmore and Alroy Downs. Eastwards their terrain extended over the border with Queensland close to the headwaters of the Gregory River and Lawn Hill Creek.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=226}}
Social organisation
The Yindjilandji are organised into four skin groups (called Galharra):
- Banaga
- Burungu
- Balyirri
- Garimarra
A Banaga man must marry a Burungu woman and all their children are Balyirri. A Burungu man marries a Banaga woman and their children are Garimarra.
On the other side, Garimarra men must marry Balyirri women and their children are Burungu. Balyirri men marry Garimarra women and their children become Banaga.{{Cite web |title=Galharra: Why we are all Family – Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation |url=https://juluwarlu.com.au/our-beliefs/yindjibarndi-law/galharrawhy-we-are-all-family/ |access-date=2024-06-11 |language=en-AU}}
Alternative names
Notes
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Sources
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- {{cite book| title = Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development
| last = Dixon | first = R. M. W. | year = 2002
| author-link = Robert M. W. Dixon
| publisher = Cambridge University Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MSqIBNJtG0AC&pg=PR39
| isbn = 978-0-521-47378-1
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Semi-Moieties in North-Western Queensland
| last = Sharp | first = Lauriston
| author-link = Lauriston Sharp
| journal = Oceania
| date = December 1935 | volume = 6 | issue = 2 | pages = 158–174
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1935.tb00178.x | jstor = 40327545
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia
| last = Sharp | first = Lauriston
| author-link = Lauriston Sharp
| journal = Oceania
| date = March 1939a | volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 254–275
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00232.x | jstor = 40327744
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia (Continued)
| last = Sharp | first = Lauriston
| author-link = Lauriston Sharp
| journal = Oceania
| date = June 1939b | volume = 9 | issue = 4 | pages = 439–461
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00248.x | jstor = 40327762
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Indjilandji (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
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/indjilandji.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = The Aljawara and Their Territory
| last = Yallop | first = C. L.
| journal = Oceania
| year = 1969 | volume = 39 | issue = 3 | pages = 187–197
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1969.tb01005.x | jstor = 40329775
}}
- {{Cite web| title = Yindjilandji
| work = Ethnologue
| publisher = SIL International
| url = https://www.ethnologue.com/language/yil
| ref = {{harvid|Ethnologue}}
}}
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{{Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory}}
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