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Iwaidja people

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If we take the Unalla as interchangeable with the Iwaidja, they were a once numerous tribe which, with the onset of colonial settlement, was reduced to a mere 30 members by 1881, consisting of 7 men, 12 women, 9 boys and 2 girls. Foelsche stated that the community was ravaged after
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The last two tribes were mentioned by Foelsche (together with the Eiwaja (which Tindale identified as another name for the Iwaidja which Tindale was unable to identify
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In Tindale's estimation the Iwaidja possessed some 100 square miles (260 km) of tribal lands. Their centre was at Mountnorris Bay, in the eastern area of the
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According to Tindale, they earned this monicker from the fact that they were employed by an early settler, Joe Cooper, to assist him in defending himself. (
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The country frequented by this tribe extends from Raffles Bay to Port Essington Harbour and thence midway up the Cobourg Peninsula to Popham Bay.
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The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent
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Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
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Four other groups were reported to share the same territory, though for Tindale their status as either
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Hart, C. W. (July 1930). "The Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands".
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or independent tribes was undetermined. They were listed as:
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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London
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Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake
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states that the name is based on their word for 'no' (
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Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory
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Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia
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The native races of the Indian Archipelago: Papuans
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Index

Indigenous Australian
Northern Territory
Norman Tindale
Iwaidja
Iwaidjan languages
Cobourg Peninsula
Pama–Nyungan languages
Minjilang
Croker Island
Cobourg Peninsula
Paul Foelsche
Edward Micklethwaite Curr
Ajokoot
Wurango
hordes
Croker Island
Malay traders
smallpox
Melville Islanders
Foelsche 1886
Tindale 1974
Tindale 1974
Evans 1998


Tindale 1974
Foelsche 1886


Foelsche 1886

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