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Nyamal

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250:'On the Coongan and Shaw rivers to their headwaters and on the lower reaches of the de Grey River west of Barramine almost to Mulyie and Wodgina; at Marble Bar, Nullagine, Hillside, Bamboo Springs, and Warrawoona. They claim access to the sea on a narrow strip following the Tabba Tabba Creek through Strelley and Pippingarra.' 180:
could earn £5 a month. In 1885 they sheared over 13,000 sheep in a month and a half, not paid for in wages, but with flour, sugar and tobacco. Vast flocks of sheep ate up the grasses and bush tucker resources that had been one of the staples of people like the Nyamal, forcing them into more
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in 1963, and, after conditions proved too arduous for his foreman Nairn, the station changed hands, and was managed by McKenzie Grant, A.W. Anderson and, later,
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became the basis of a pidgin used among workers on pearling luggers in the late 19th century, and was spoken several hundred miles away, as was
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run by the Hardie brothers, and where the aborigines grew up to be, according to his memory of their repute, the best stockmen in the world.
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The Nyamal are a coastal people though their traditional lands extend inland through to the Yarrie country of the
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Peter Coppin was an elder of the Nyamal whose life story was recorded by Jolly Read before he died. Born near
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Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
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Part of the traditional Nyamal lands around the de Grey river were taken up by the pastoralist
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The significance of the Karlamilyi Region to the Martujarra people of the Western Desert
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estimated their territorial extension as covering 16,300 square miles (42,000 km).
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cuts from the Punara tree. Two types of kangaroo were hunted, the plain variety (
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denoting the white ochre on the river banks. It extended east of the
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in 1920, he avoided the fate of many other half-caste (
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Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia
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His mother shifted him to the 528:Australian National University 70:, mistakenly classified as an 1: 239:peoples of the Western desert 215:Moore River Native Settlement 473:. In Hickey, Raymond (ed.). 454:. 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Index

Njamal
Indigenous Australian people
Pilbara
Western Australia
Nyamal
Ngarluma
Dasukaluta rosamondae
antechinus
De Grey River
Karajarri
Port Hedland
Marble Bar
Nullagine
Shaw River
Oakover River
Martu tribal lands
Manyjilyjarra
Wanman
Nyangumarta
Ngarla
Norman Tindale
Bush tucker
bush turkey
Walter Padbury
Charles Harper
jackaroo
Yarrie Station
being kidnapped
so-called Protector of Aborigines
Sir James Mitchell

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