Adnyamathanha

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The Adnyamathanha or Adynyamathanha are a tribe of Aborigines in the area of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia , Australia . Adnyamathanha means rock people or hill people . In 2009 the Adnyamathanha were awarded the largest native title in Australia to date, covering around 41,000 km².

history

The Adnyamathanha have lived in the northern Flinders Ranges and around Lake Torrens for tens of thousands of years . This Aboriginal tribe is divided into the Kuyani , Wailpi , Yadliaura , Pilatapa and Pangkala clans .

From 1851 the first Europeans settled in the land of the Adnyamathanha, which led to numerous conflicts. In response to the conquest, the Aboriginal people stole sheep, which they ritually killed. Either ousted from their land or forced to work as cattle herders and housekeepers, they soon adopted the way of life of the early settlers. The United Aborigines Mission (UAM) founded a mission station in Nepabunna in 1930. In the 1970s, the Aboriginal settlement of Beltana was established there by the indigenous people of this area.

Culture and dream time

Their cultural life relates to the regional salt lakes and their dream time , which they call Yura Muda . In their language, the Yura Muda forms their identity and common language; the women of the Adnyamathanha learn their traditional and contemporary ways of life as well as their moiety in certain spiritual places. Her dream time tells of two giant snake beings who created the landscapes, the Akurra - one female and one male snake. Since the snake creatures sleep in the salt lakes, they never step on the salt-encrusted surface of Lake Frome . Their origins, creation story and way of life are passed on from generation to generation.

They speak their own language and the name of the edible witchetty maggot is made up of their language, "crooked twig" ( wityu ) and "larva" ( vartu ).

Land rights

In their area there are settlements of their community like Nepabunna , Beltana and Iga Warta , a tourist settlement . In August 1998 they founded the first of the Aboriginal Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area of Australia in the Flinders Ranges and in the Vulkathunha Gammon Ranges National Park , which extends over 580 km². It is jointly managed by the Adnyamathanha and Nepabunna Aborigines, who have a native title on it , which they manage in the South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust .

On March 30, 2009, the Adnyamathanha received a ruling from the Federal Court of Australia , which gave them back their ancestral land of about 41,000 km² with a native title . This land right also includes rights of disposal over the mining area of ​​the Beverley uranium mine . Australia's largest native title to date stretches from the eastern end of Lake Torrens through the northern Flinders Ranges to the border of South Australia and New South Wales , 918 km² of which are in the Ikara Flinders Range National Park .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Flinders Ranges National Park ( September 1, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive ) Cultural Heritage. Department for Environment and Heritage. Retrieved February 14, 2011
  2. ↑ Twentieth Century Heritage Survey Post Second World War (1946-1959) ( Memento of January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved February 14, 2011
  3. ↑ NATIONAL LANDSCAPES - Flinders Ranges. In: www.tourism.australia.com. Tourism Australia, archived from the original on March 20, 2012 ; accessed on February 5, 2014 .
  4. ^ Archive for the Adnyamathanha Yura Culture Category . Retrieved February 14, 2011
  5. ↑ Iga Warta Pty Ltd ( Memento from February 5, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Flinders Ranges . Retrieved February 14, 2011
  7. ^ Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area . Retrieved February 14, 2011
  8. ↑ Federal Court of Australia: Adnyamathanha No. 1 Native Title Claim Group v The State of South Australia (No 2) (2009) FCA 359 of March 30, 2009 . Retrieved February 15, 2011
  9. ↑ Adnyamathanha People win Flinders Ranges native title claim . The Advertiser as of March 20, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2011