Yarluyandi

The Yarluyandi, also known as Jeljendi, are an Aboriginal Australian people of north-eastern South Australia.

Country

In Norman Tindale's calculations, the Yarluyandi had some 18,000 square kilometres (6,900 sq mi) of land within their tribal domain, taking in the Mulligan River south of Annandale to Alton Downs. Their western confines were in the vicinity of Atna Hill,^[1] while their eastern extension went as far as Birdsville and the Diamantina River.^[2]

Native title

The Yarluyandi now form an aggregate with the Wangkangurru people, and are represented by the Wangkangurru Yarluyandi Aboriginal Corporation.^[3] Their native title over a large area of the Simpson Desert was recognised in 2014.^[4]

Language

The Yarluyandi language was closely related to the Ngamini language.

Alternative names

• Jeljujendi
• Yelyuyendi
• Yarleeyandee.^[2][5]

Notes

Citations

1. Mapcarta
2. Tindale 1974, p. 212.
3. "Wangkangurru Yarluyandi Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC". PBC. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
4. "National Native Title Register Details: SCD2014/005 - The Wangkangurru/Yarluyandi Native Title Claim". National Native Title Tribunal. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
5. Paull 1886, p. 18.

Sources

• Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
• Howitt, Alfred William; Siebert, Otto (January–June 1904). "Legends of the Dieri and Kindred Tribes of Central Australia". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 34: 100–129. doi:10.2307/2843089. JSTOR 2843089.
• Paull, W.J. (1886). "Warburton River". In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent (PDF). Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 18–21.
• Strehlow, C. (1910). Leonhardi, Moritz von (ed.). Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien Part 3 (PDF). Joseph Baer & Co.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Jeljendi (SA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.