Kaytetye
The Kaytete are an Aboriginal tribe living near Barrow Creek and Tennant Creek in Australia's Northern Territory . Your neighbors in the east are the Alyawarre , in the south the Anmatyerre , in the west the Warlpiri and in the north the Whyungu .
Language and name
The Kaytetye language, like many other Aboriginal languages in this part of Central Australia , belongs to the Arandic languages and thus to the family of the Pama-Nyungan languages. It is related to Arrernte . Alternative names for the Kaytetye are: Kartetye, Kartiji, Kaytej, Keytej and Katish or Kaitish .
country
The Kaytetye call the area around Barrow Creek Thangkenharenge . The rounded and weathered marbles made of granite , the Devil's Marbles , which are called Karlu Karlu in their language , are located in one of their spiritual ancestral areas of dreamtime . The Kaytetye believe that the granite marbles are the eggs of the mythical rainbow serpent that they laid there as it moved through this area in Dreamtime.
The Alyawarr, Kaytetye, Whyungu, Wakay have merged and received a Native Title for land and water in the south and southeast of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.
massacre
When the Europeans colonized Australia, conflicts arose with the Kaytetye and, according to official information, 31 Kaytete were killed by the Europeans in 1928 in the Coniston massacre and another 60 to 70 in Barrow Creek in the Skull Creek massacre in 1874.
Web links
- Australian Indigenous Law Reporter , accessed June 7, 2009
- The Barrow Creek / Kaytetye Land Claim , accessed June 7, 2007 (PDF file; 257 kB)