Jadira facts for kids
The Jadira are a people and territory in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
It was mentioned by Norman Tindale in his classic ethnographic map of Australian tribes. The status of Jadira in the sense defined by Tindale has been recently questioned by Paul Burke.
Ascribed country
Tindale described the tribal boundaries of some 3,600 square miles (9,300 km2) of land belonging to a "Jadira" people, in the following terms.3,600 sq. The Jadira occupied the areas about the middle sections of the Cane and Robe rivers, running south of Mount Minnie, and as far north as the Fortescue River. Their eastern frontier putatively fell short of the western scarp of the higher plateau of the Hamersley Ranges.
Tindale also added a list of alternative names for these Jadira:
- Kawarindjari, Kawarandjari
- Kawarandari
- Kawarindjara
- Kauarind'arri, Kauarndhari
- Garindjari
These terms represented Ngarluma exonyma applied to the Jadira, and bore the sense of "belonging to the west".
The only other information available to Tindale led him to suggest that some of the Jadira with the onset of European colonization shifted eastwards to Ashburton Downs Station, while a second group moved to the mouth of the Fortescue River where they were assimilated into the Martuthinira. Traditionally, he added, their access to the coastal waters lay through Nhuwala (which Tindale spelt Noala) territory, between the Cane and Robe rivers, a practice Tindale described as "trespassing".
