Yankunytjatjara EAA (Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Horton ed.) * Yankuntjatjara AIATSIS (Austr. Inst. of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) C.04 Yankunytjatjara Western Desert (click) SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) KDD YANKUNTATJARA --> South-West (50) --> Wati (13) --> Pama-Nyungan (176) (number of languages in each group or family between brackets)	State: SA (please be aware that this map is NOT hand-drawn, but machine generated using approximate coordinates adjusted from Tindale's records. This map is only here to provide a very general idea of the location)
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Alternative names found in the literature for this group Jangkundjara Jangkundjadjara Jangundjara Jankunzarza Jankuntjatjara Jankuntjatjarra Yankunjara Yangundjadjara Jangwundjara Nankundjara Ankundjara Everard Range Tribe Alinjera ("north") Kaltjilandjara (grp by Pitjandjara) Yankunytjatjara Wirtjapakandja * Yankuntjatjara	User contributions 2002-06-18 the distribution of the tribe is now accepted as having extended from the nth-east musgrave ranges to uluru[ayers rock]NT.The eastward invasion during the 30's drought of the dominant pitjantjatjara tribe obscured this fact.Elders will also state that the western boundaries of the Yankunytjatjara extended to the eastern edges of the Mann ranges...srb56@ozemail.com.au 2002-12-13 where do tribes people live? 2003-04-29 I found this site very helpful to my reasearch and found the set-up very user freindly thank you 2003-05-24 lowitja o'donoghue 2003-09-12 worracee 2003-12-15 how they survive in the desert 2004-05-17 mount wooddroffe 2004-10-05 insert a better map for primary students to understand. Unfortunately, because of too many misuses, the possibility for visitors to add comments here was taken out of the system. It will be added again at a later stage with a more severe control mechanism. Sorry to all those well-intentioned who have contributed to make these pages a collective place of growing knowledge....
Place and geographical locations that are often associated to this group. Please note that these are places that were or are mentioned in the literature, some are inaccurate. Under no circumstances can this list be used in the context of any sorts of claims, indigenous or not. Everard Ranges; Mount Robert; Musgrave Ranges; Officer Creek; Oparinna;

Bibliographic references for this record

I suggest you also use the above-mentioned AIATSIS name in the AIATSIS MURA catalogue for bibliographic references

BLACK J.M. 1915. Language of the Everard Range Tribe. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 39, p. 732-735.

CLELAND J.B. & JOHNSTON T.H. 1937/38. Notes on native names and uses of plants in the Musgrave Range region. Oceania, 8(2;3), p. 208-215; 328-342.

GODDARD C. 1981. A learnerís Guide to Yankunytjatjara. Alice Springs: IAD.

GODDARD C. 1985. A Grammar of Yankunytjatjara. Alice Springs: IAD.

GODDARD C. 1991. Anger in the Western desert: a case study in the cross-cultural semantics of emotion. Man, 26(2), p. 265-79.

GODDARD C. 1992. Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionnary. Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development, [1987].

GODDARD C. 1995. A learnerís Guide to Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara. Alice Springs: IAD, [1993, 1981].

HAMILTON A. 1979. Timeless Transformation. Women, Men and History in the Australian Western Desert. Sydney: University of Sydney, Ph.D Thesis submitted at the University of Sydney, June 1979.

HAMILTON A. 1980. Dual social systems: Technology, labour and womenís secret rites in the eastern Western Desert of Australia. Oceania, 51(1), p. 4-20.

HAMILTON A. 1982. Descended from father, belonging to country: rights to land in the Australian Western Desert. In E.B. Leacock & R.B. Lee (eds), Politics and History in Band Societies. Cambridge, Paris: Cambridge University Press, Editions de la MSH, p. 85-108.

HAMILTON A. 1986. Coming and Going: Aboriginal Mobility in North-West S.A. 1970 - 71. Records South Australia Museum, 20, p. 47-57.

HAMILTON A. 1987. Dual social systems: Technology, labour and women's secret rites in the eastern Western Desert of Australia. In W.H. Edwards (ed.), Traditional Aboriginal Society. Melbourne: Macmillan, p. 34-52, [1980].

HAMILTON P. 1972. Aspects of interdependence between Aboriginal social behaviour and the spatial and physical environment. In Aboriginal Housing: A report of a seminar on Aboriginal housing, Canberra, February 10, 11, 1972. Canberra: Royal Australian Insitute of Architects, p. 14 pp.

LESTER Y. 1993. Yami : the autobiography of Yami Lester. Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development.

Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD) 1988. Punu - Yankunytjatjara Plant Use . : Angus & Robertson.

LESTER Y. 1993. Yami : the autobiography of Yami Lester. Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development.

Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara Womenís Council 1990. Minyma Tjuta Tjunguringkula Kunpuringanyi (Women growing strong together). Alice Springs: Pitjantjatjara Council.

NPY WOMENíS COUNCIL . Art and Craft of Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara People. : NPY Womenís Council.

SKOV S. & RUEDIGER S. 1992. Kurrunpa. Central Australian Rural Practioners Association, 15, p. 31-34.

TAFLER D. 2000. The use of electronic media in remote communities. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2000 (1 & 2), p. 27-38.

TAYLOR L. 1979. Ancestors into art: an analysis of Pitjanjatjara Kulpidji designs and crayon drawings. Canberra: Australian National University, Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, BA(Hons) thesis.

WHITE S.A. 1915. The Aborigines of the Everard Range. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 39, p. 725-732.

WILSON A. F. 1947. The Musgrave Ranges. Walkabout, 14(1), p. .

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