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{{Short description|Aboriginal Australian people of South Australia}} |
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The neighbouring tribes were the [[Kokata]] to the west, with the frontier between the two marked by the scarp of the western tableland near [[Coober Pedy]]. To their east were the [[Wangganguru dialect|Wangkanguru]].{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=210}} |
The neighbouring tribes were the [[Kokata]] to the west, with the frontier between the two marked by the scarp of the western tableland near [[Coober Pedy]]. To their east were the [[Wangganguru dialect|Wangkanguru]].{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=210}} |
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== Native Title == |
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In 2012, the [[National Native Title Tribunal]] issued a consent determination in the matter of Dodd versus the State of South Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dodd v State of South Australia [2012] FCA 519 |url=https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2012/2012fca0519}}</ref> The Tribunal found that the Arabana maintained strong and enduring connections to country, each other and their culture. As a result, the Arabana were granted native title for more than 68,000 km{{sup|2}} in northern South Australia. The [http://www.arabana.com.au/ Arabana Aboriginal Corporation] is responsible for the lands today. |
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==Mythology== |
==Mythology== |
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Several traditional stories are well documented, especially that regarding a man-eating |
Several traditional stories are well documented, especially that regarding a man-eating Buzzard and his Eaglehawk mate.{{sfn|Spencer|Gillen|1912|pp=24–28}} The chief protagonists are three animals: (1) ''Wantu Wantu'', the man-eating [[Black-breasted Buzzard]]; (2) ''Irritye'' or ''Irretye,'' a friendly [[Wedge-tailed Eagle]]; and (3) ''Kutta Kutta'' (variantly called ''Akwete Akwete'') who, though described as a small hawk is actually the [[Spotted nightjar]].{{sfn|Gibson|Hercus|2018|p=193}} |
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==History of |
==History of contact== |
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The Arabana were |
The Arabana were interviewed at [[Anna Creek Station|Old Peake Station]]{{sfn|Hercus|2011|p=261}} and ''Thantyiwanparda'' in the nearby [[Acacia|gidgee]] scrub{{sfn|Gibson|Hercus|2018|pp=179–180}} by [[Walter Baldwin Spencer]] and [[Francis James Gillen]] over a ten-day period{{sfn|Gibson|Hercus|2018|p=176}} in August 1903 for a specific purpose. Their earlier work had argued that the truly "primitive" nature of the [[Arrernte people|Arrernte]] was indicated by the fact that their totemic identities came from the spirit responsible for making individuals' mothers pregnant. [[James Frazer]] adopted this to buttress his theories on the development phases of "primitive societies". A Scottish amateur ethnographer [[Andrew Lang]] contested their interpretations of the Arrernte, arguing that they were not "primitive", a label he argued was more appropriate to their near neighbours the Arabana, who traced descent through the mother and linked their totemic system to [[exogamy]]. It was to address this challenge that accounted for Spencer and Gillen's return to Arabana lands.{{sfn|Gibson|Hercus|2018|pp=179–180}} |
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Today, cross-cultural research collaborations are building on Arabana traditional knowledge and colonial and pastoral experiences to develop new ways of approaching modeling climate change.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Nursey-Bray |first1=Melissa |last2=Palmer |first2=Robert |last3=Stuart |first3=Aaron |last4=Arbon |first4=Veronica |last5=Rigney |first5=Lester-Irabinna |date=2020-08-01 |title=Scale, colonisation and adapting to climate change: Insights from the Arabana people, South Australia |journal=Geoforum |language=en |volume=114 |pages=138–150 |doi=10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.021 |issn=0016-7185|doi-access=free }}</ref> |
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==Social organisation== |
==Social organisation== |
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==Alternative names== |
==Alternative names== |
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* ''Arabuna, Arrabunna, Arrabonna, Arubbinna'' |
* ''Arabuna, Arrabunna, Arrabonna, Arubbinna'' |
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* ''Arapani'' |
* ''Arapani'' |
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* ''Nulla'' |
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* ''Rabuna'' (an occasional Aranda pronunciation) |
* ''Rabuna'' (an occasional Aranda pronunciation) |
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* ''Wangarabana''. ([a term reflecting a word ''woqka'' /''wagka'' meaning |
* ''Wangarabana''. ([a term reflecting a word ''woqka'' /''wagka'' meaning "speech") |
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* ''Wongkurapuna, Wangarabunna'' |
* ''Wongkurapuna, Wangarabunna'' |
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* '' |
* ''Yendakarangu'' |
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Source: {{harvnb|Tindale|1974|p=210}} |
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==Some words== |
==Some words== |
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* ''thanthani'' (cormorant) also the name of a totem. |
* ''thanthani'' (cormorant) also the name of a totem. |
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Source: {{harvnb|Gibson|Hercus|2018|p=207, n.37}} |
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==Notes== |
==Notes== |
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*{{Cite book| title = The Australian Aboriginal |
*{{Cite book| title = The Australian Aboriginal |
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| last = Basedow | first = Herbert |
| last = Basedow | first = Herbert | year = 1925 |
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| author-link = Herbert Basedow |
| author-link = Herbert Basedow |
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| year = 1925 |
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| publisher = F.W. Preece and Sons |
| publisher = F.W. Preece and Sons |
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*{{Cite journal | title = Aborigines of the West Coast of South Australia; vocabularies and ethnological notes |
*{{Cite journal | title = Aborigines of the West Coast of South Australia; vocabularies and ethnological notes |
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| author-link = Daisy Bates (Australian author) |
| author-link = Daisy Bates (Australian author) |
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| journal = [[Royal Society of South Australia|Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia]] |
| journal = [[Royal Society of South Australia|Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia]] |
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| location = Adelaide |
| location = Adelaide | via = [[Biodiversity Heritage Library|BHL]] |
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| year = 2018 | volume = 42 | pages = 152–167 |
| year = 2018 | volume = 42 | pages = 152–167 |
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| url = https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42802106 |
| url = https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42802106 |
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| ref = harv |
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*{{Cite book| title = Aborigines of South and Central Australia |
*{{Cite book| title = Aborigines of South and Central Australia |
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| last = East | first = J. J. |
| last = East | first = J. J. | year = 1889 |
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| year = 1889 |
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| location = Adelaide. |
| location = Adelaide. |
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*{{Cite journal | title = The Social Organization of South Australian Tribes |
*{{Cite journal | title = The Social Organization of South Australian Tribes |
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| journal = [[Oceania (journal)|Oceania]] |
| journal = [[Oceania (journal)|Oceania]] |
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| date = September 1931 | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 44–73 |
| date = September 1931 | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 44–73 |
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| jstor = 40327353 |
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1931.tb00022.x | jstor = 40327353 |
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| ref = harv |
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*{{Cite journal | title = Kinship in South Australia (Continued) |
*{{Cite journal | title = Kinship in South Australia (Continued) |
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| journal = [[Oceania (journal)|Oceania]] |
| journal = [[Oceania (journal)|Oceania]] |
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| date = March 1940a | volume = 10 | issue = 3 | pages = 295–349 |
| date = March 1940a | volume = 10 | issue = 3 | pages = 295–349 |
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| jstor = 40327772 |
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00295.x | jstor = 40327772 |
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*{{Cite journal | title = Kinship in South Australia (Continued) |
*{{Cite journal | title = Kinship in South Australia (Continued) |
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| journal = [[Oceania (journal)|Oceania]] |
| journal = [[Oceania (journal)|Oceania]] |
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| date = June 1940b | volume = 10 | issue = 4 | pages = 369–388 |
| date = June 1940b | volume = 10 | issue = 4 | pages = 369–388 |
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| jstor = 40327864 |
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00302.x | jstor = 40327864 |
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| ref = harv |
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*{{Cite book| title = Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien |
*{{Cite book| title = Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien |
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| last = Eylmann | first = Erhard |
| last = Eylmann | first = Erhard | year = 1908 |
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| year = 1908 |
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| publisher = D.Reimer | location = Berlin |
| publisher = D.Reimer | location = Berlin |
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| url = https://archive.org/download/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog.pdf |
| url = https://archive.org/download/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog.pdf |
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| via = [[Internet Archive]] |
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| last1 = Gibson | first1 = Jason |
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| last2 = Hercus | first2 = Luise A. |
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| editor1-last = Roberts | editor1-first = Amy |
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| editor2-last = Wesley | editor2-first = Daryl |
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| url = https://www.academia.edu/36750225 |
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*{{Cite journal | title = Anthropology of the Elder Exploring Expedition. 1871-1872 |
*{{Cite journal | title = Anthropology of the Elder Exploring Expedition. 1871-1872 |
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| last = Helms | first = Richard |
| last = Helms | first = Richard |
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| journal = [[Royal Society of South Australia|Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia]] |
| journal = [[Royal Society of South Australia|Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia]] |
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| location = Adelaide |
| location = Adelaide | via = [[Biodiversity Heritage Library|BHL]] |
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| year = 1896 | volume = 16 | pages = 237–332 |
| year = 1896 | volume = 16 | pages = 237–332 |
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| url = https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35803693 |
| url = https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35803693 |
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| ref = harv |
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*{{Cite journal | title = Some aspects of the form and use of the trial number in Victorian languages and Arabana |
*{{Cite journal | title = Some aspects of the form and use of the trial number in Victorian languages and Arabana |
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| journal = Mankind |
| journal = Mankind |
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| year = 1968 | volume = 6 | issue = 8 | pages = 335–337 |
| year = 1968 | volume = 6 | issue = 8 | pages = 335–337 |
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*{{Cite book| chapter = Murkarra, a landscape nearly forgotten |
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| last = Hercus | first = Luise A. | year = 2011 |
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| author-link = Luise Hercus |
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| title = Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and re-naming the Australian landscape |
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| editor1-last = Hercus | editor1-first = Luise A. |
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| editor2-last = |
| editor2-last = Koch | editor2-first = Harold |
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| publisher = [[Australian National University Press|ANU E Press]]/[[Aboriginal History]] |
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| chapter-url = http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p17331/pdf/ch116.pdf |
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| pages = 257–272 |
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| isbn = 978-1-921-66608-7 |
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| url =https://www.academia.edu/36750225/Capturing_Histories_at_Thantyi-wanparda_Comparing_Early_and_Late_Twentieth_Century_Ethnographies_in_Arabana_Territory?email_work_card=view-paper |
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*{{Cite book| title = The native tribes of south-east Australia |
*{{Cite book| title = The native tribes of south-east Australia |
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| last = Howitt | first = Alfred William |
| last = Howitt | first = Alfred William | year = 1904 |
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| author-link = Alfred William Howitt |
| author-link = Alfred William Howitt |
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| year = 1904 |
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| publisher = [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |
| publisher = [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |
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| url = https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319345/AU0094_NativeTribes_SE_Australia.pdf |
| url = https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319345/AU0094_NativeTribes_SE_Australia.pdf |
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| format = PDF |
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| ref = harv |
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*{{Cite journal | title = Legends of the Dieri and Kindred Tribes of Central Australia |
*{{Cite journal | title = Legends of the Dieri and Kindred Tribes of Central Australia |
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| journal = [[Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]] |
| journal = [[Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]] |
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| date = January–June 1904 | volume = 34 | pages = 100–129 |
| date = January–June 1904 | volume = 34 | pages = 100–129 |
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| jstor = 2843089 |
| doi = 10.2307/2843089 | jstor = 2843089 |
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*{{Cite web| title = The commonwealth of Australia; federal handbook, prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, held in Australia, August, 1914 |
*{{Cite web| title = The commonwealth of Australia; federal handbook, prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, held in Australia, August, 1914 |
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| editor-last = Knibbs | editor-first = George Handley | editor-link = George Handley Knibbs |
| editor-last = Knibbs | editor-first = George Handley | editor-link = George Handley Knibbs |
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| publisher = Melbourne |
| publisher = Melbourne: A. J. Mullet, government printer |
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| url = https://archive.org/details/commonwealthofau00brit | via = Internet Archive |
| url = https://archive.org/details/commonwealthofau00brit | via = Internet Archive |
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| date = 18 July 1914 | access-date = 18 July 2019 |
| date = 18 July 1914 | access-date = 18 July 2019 |
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| date = January 1900 | volume = 39 | issue = 161 | pages = 78–91+93 |
| date = January 1900 | volume = 39 | issue = 161 | pages = 78–91+93 |
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| jstor = 983545 |
| jstor = 983545 |
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*{{Cite book| title = The Euahlayi tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia |
*{{Cite book| title = The Euahlayi tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia |
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| last = Parker | first = K. Langloh |
| last = Parker | first = K. Langloh | year = 1905 |
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| author-link = K. Langloh Parker |
| author-link = K. Langloh Parker |
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| year = 1905 |
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| publisher = [[Archibald Constable|A. Constable & Co.]] |
| publisher = [[Archibald Constable|A. Constable & Co.]] |
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| url = https://archive.org/download/euahlayitribewi00langgoog/euahlayitribewi00langgoog.pdf |
| url = https://archive.org/download/euahlayitribewi00langgoog/euahlayitribewi00langgoog.pdf |
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| via = [[Internet Archive]] |
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| format = PDF |
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*{{Cite book| title = Our Heart Is the Land: Aboriginal Reminiscences from the Western Lake Eyre Basin |
*{{Cite book| title = Our Heart Is the Land: Aboriginal Reminiscences from the Western Lake Eyre Basin |
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| last = Shaw | first = Bruce |
| last = Shaw | first = Bruce | year = 1995 |
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| year = 1995 |
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| publisher = [[Aboriginal Studies Press]] |
| publisher = [[Aboriginal Studies Press]] |
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| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AqA-5H-yxTEC&pg=PA23 |
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AqA-5H-yxTEC&pg=PA23 |
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| isbn = 978-0-855-75569-0 |
| isbn = 978-0-855-75569-0 |
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*{{Cite book| title = Northern Tribes of Central Australia |
*{{Cite book| title = Northern Tribes of Central Australia |
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| year = 1904 |
| year = 1904 |
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| publisher = [[Macmillan Publishers]] |
| publisher = [[Macmillan Publishers]] |
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| url = https://archive.org/details/northerntribesc00gillgoog |
| url = https://archive.org/details/northerntribesc00gillgoog | format = PDF | via = [[Internet Archive]] |
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*{{Cite book| title = |
*{{Cite book| title = Across Australia |
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| last1 = Spencer | first1 = Sir Baldwin |
| last1 = Spencer | first1 = Sir Baldwin |
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| last2 = Gillen | first2 = Francis J. |
| last2 = Gillen | first2 = Francis J. |
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| author2-link = Francis James Gillen |
| author2-link = Francis James Gillen |
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| year = 1912 |
| year = 1912 |
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| publisher = [[Macmillan Publishers]] |
| publisher = [[Macmillan Publishers]] |
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| url = https://archive.org/details/acrossaustralia02spen |
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*{{Cite book| title = Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien Part 3 |
*{{Cite book| title = Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien Part 3 |
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| last = Strehlow | first = C. |
| last = Strehlow | first = C. | year = 1910 |
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| author-link = Carl Strehlow |
| author-link = Carl Strehlow |
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| year = 1910 |
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| editor-last = Leonhardi | editor-first = Moritz von | editor-link = Moritz von Leonhardi |
| editor-last = Leonhardi | editor-first = Moritz von | editor-link = Moritz von Leonhardi |
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| publisher = Joseph Baer & Co |
| publisher = Joseph Baer & Co |
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| url = https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/61643/9/Die%20Aranda_Issue%203.pdf |
| url = https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/61643/9/Die%20Aranda_Issue%203.pdf |
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*{{Cite book| title = Folklore, manners, customs and languages of the South Australian aborigines |
*{{Cite book| title = Folklore, manners, customs and languages of the South Australian aborigines |
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| last = Taplin | first = George |
| last = Taplin | first = George | year = 1879 |
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| author-link = George Taplin |
| author-link = George Taplin |
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| year = 1879 |
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| publisher = E Spiller, Acting Government Printer | location = Adelaide |
| publisher = E Spiller, Acting Government Printer | location = Adelaide |
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| url = https://archive.org/download/folkloremannersc00taplrich/folkloremannersc00taplrich.pdf |
| url = https://archive.org/download/folkloremannersc00taplrich/folkloremannersc00taplrich.pdf |
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| via = [[Internet Archive]] |
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*{{Cite book| chapter = Arabana(SA) |
*{{Cite book| chapter = Arabana(SA) |
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| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett |
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974 |
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| author-link = Norman Tindale |
| author-link = Norman Tindale |
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| year = 1974 |
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| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names |
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names |
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| publisher = Australian National University Press |
| publisher = Australian National University Press |
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| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/arabana.htm |
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/arabana.htm |
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| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6 |
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6 |
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[[Category:Aboriginal peoples of South Australia]] |
[[Category:Aboriginal peoples of South Australia]] |
Revision as of 03:18, 16 March 2024
The Arabana, also known as the Ngarabana, are an Aboriginal Australian people of South Australia.
Name
The older tribal autonym was Ngarabana, which may have been misheard by white settlers as Arabana, the term now generally accepted by new generations of the Ngarabana.[2]
Language
Arabana, like Wangganguru with which it shares a 90% overlap in vocabulary, is a member of the Karnic subgroup of the Pama-Nyungan language.[3]
Country
In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Arabana controlled some 19,500 square miles (51,000 km2) of tribal land. They were present at the Neales River to the west of Lake Eyre, and west as far as the Stuart Range; Macumba Creek. Southwards their lands extended to Coward Springs. Their terrain also took in Oodnadatta, Lora Creek[4] and Lake Cadibarrawirracanna.[2]
The neighbouring tribes were the Kokata to the west, with the frontier between the two marked by the scarp of the western tableland near Coober Pedy. To their east were the Wangkanguru.[2]
Native Title
In 2012, the National Native Title Tribunal issued a consent determination in the matter of Dodd versus the State of South Australia.[5] The Tribunal found that the Arabana maintained strong and enduring connections to country, each other and their culture. As a result, the Arabana were granted native title for more than 68,000 km2 in northern South Australia. The Arabana Aboriginal Corporation is responsible for the lands today.
Mythology
Several traditional stories are well documented, especially that regarding a man-eating Buzzard and his Eaglehawk mate.[6] The chief protagonists are three animals: (1) Wantu Wantu, the man-eating Black-breasted Buzzard; (2) Irritye or Irretye, a friendly Wedge-tailed Eagle; and (3) Kutta Kutta (variantly called Akwete Akwete) who, though described as a small hawk is actually the Spotted nightjar.[7]
History of contact
The Arabana were interviewed at Old Peake Station[8] and Thantyiwanparda in the nearby gidgee scrub[9] by Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis James Gillen over a ten-day period[10] in August 1903 for a specific purpose. Their earlier work had argued that the truly "primitive" nature of the Arrernte was indicated by the fact that their totemic identities came from the spirit responsible for making individuals' mothers pregnant. James Frazer adopted this to buttress his theories on the development phases of "primitive societies". A Scottish amateur ethnographer Andrew Lang contested their interpretations of the Arrernte, arguing that they were not "primitive", a label he argued was more appropriate to their near neighbours the Arabana, who traced descent through the mother and linked their totemic system to exogamy. It was to address this challenge that accounted for Spencer and Gillen's return to Arabana lands.[9]
Today, cross-cultural research collaborations are building on Arabana traditional knowledge and colonial and pastoral experiences to develop new ways of approaching modeling climate change.[11]
Social organisation
The Arabana were divided into kin groups, whose respective territories were called wadlu.
- Jendakarangu (Coward Springs)
- Peake tribe
- Anna Creek tribe[2]
Their moieties were named Mathari and Kararru.[12]
Alternative names
- Arabuna, Arrabunna, Arrabonna, Arubbinna
- Arapani
- Arapina. (Iliaura pronunciation)
- Ngarabana
- Nulla
- Rabuna (an occasional Aranda pronunciation)
- Urapuna, Urabuna, Urabunna, Urroban
- Wangarabana. ([a term reflecting a word woqka /wagka meaning "speech")
- Wongkurapuna, Wangarabunna
- Yendakarangu
Source: Tindale 1974, p. 210
Some words
- kutyu. ritual assassin, kurdaitcha
- thanthani (cormorant) also the name of a totem.
Source: Gibson & Hercus 2018, p. 207, n.37
Notes
Citations
- ^ Federal Handbook 1914.
- ^ a b c d Tindale 1974, p. 210.
- ^ Shaw 1995, p. 23.
- ^ geographic.org.
- ^ "Dodd v State of South Australia [2012] FCA 519".
- ^ Spencer & Gillen 1912, pp. 24–28.
- ^ Gibson & Hercus 2018, p. 193.
- ^ Hercus 2011, p. 261.
- ^ a b Gibson & Hercus 2018, pp. 179–180.
- ^ Gibson & Hercus 2018, p. 176.
- ^ Nursey-Bray, Melissa; Palmer, Robert; Stuart, Aaron; Arbon, Veronica; Rigney, Lester-Irabinna (1 August 2020). "Scale, colonisation and adapting to climate change: Insights from the Arabana people, South Australia". Geoforum. 114: 138–150. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.021. ISSN 0016-7185.
- ^ Gibson & Hercus 2018, p. 186.
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Further reading
- "Aboriginal people of South Australia: Arabana". LibGuides at State Library of South Australia. 26 August 2020.