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Alyawarre

Aboriginal Australian people of Central Australia region in the Northern Territory

Summary

Aboriginal Australian people of Central Australia region in the Northern Territory

The Alyawarre, also spelt Alyawarr and also known as the Iliaura, are an Aboriginal Australian people, or language group, from the Northern Territory. The Alyawarre are made up of roughly 1,200 associated peoples and actively engage in local traditions such as awelye painting.

Country

Norman Tindale's estimate in 1974 assigned to the Alyawarre traditional tribal lands extending over some 17,800 mi2, taking in the Sandover and Bundey Rivers, as well as Ooratippra and Fraser Creeks. Notable sites associated with their nomadic world include Mount Swan, northern flank of Harts Range, Plenty River north and west of Ilbala, Jervois Range, Mount Playford and the Elkedra River. They were also present at MacDonald Downs and Huckitta.

The Utopia community, 250 km north-east of Alice Springs, is partly on Alyawarre land, partly on land of the Anmatyerre.

Language

Main article: Upper Arrernte

The Alyawarre people speak a dialect of Upper Arrernte known as Alyawarre.

Social organisation

The Alyawarre had a four-section marriage system.

  • Pitjara
  • Kngwarija
  • Kimara
  • Pula

Demography

C. L. Yallop estimated the Alyawarre community to number 500-600 people in 1969. They were mainly concentrated at Lake Nash, the Georgina River, McDonald Downs, on the Bundey River, and the Warrabri Reserve.

In the 2016 Australian Census, there were 347 Alyawarre recorded in the "Utopia - Arawerr - Arlparra" Indigenous location. Only 4% of households only spoke English at home.

Native title

In 1980 the Alyawarre made a land claim together with the Anmatyerre for the Utopia pastoral lease. In the same year, the lodged a claim along with the Wakaya people for land around the remote outstation of Purrukwarra. As a result, they were handed back 2065 km2 on 22 October 1992, while the Wakaya were given 1874 km2, both only small parts of the original claim.

Alternative spellings

  • Aliawara, Alyawara, Alyawarra
  • Alyawarr, Aljawarra
  • Ilawara
  • Iliaura, Illiaura, Iljaura, Ilyaura
  • Illura
  • Ilyowra Illyowra
  • Jaljuwara
  • Yalyuwara

Source:

Some words

  • agira (kangaroo)
  • aranga (emu)
  • aringka (dog, dingo)
  • irampa (honey-ant)

Source:

Notable people

  • Emily Kame Kngwarreye, artist

  • Ngarla Kunoth who played Jedda in the 1956 Chauvel film of the same name, now Chancellor of Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

  • Kathleen Petyarre is an Alyawarre / Eastern Anmatyerre artist

  • Gloria Petyarre, artist

  • Nancy Petyarre, artist

  • Jeanna Petyarre, artist

  • Minnie Pwerle, artist (from Alyawarre and Anmatyerre language groups)

  • Elkin Reilly, Australian rules footballer

  • Barbara Weir, artist

Notes

Citations

Sources

  • {{Cite web| title = The Art of the "Dreaming": Review: Emily Kame Kngwarreye retrospective
  • {{cite web| title = Arawerr - Arlparra | access-date = 21 August 2020
  • {{Cite journal | title = Infant Transport among the Alyawara Tribe, Central Australia
  • {{Cite journal | title = Residential Group Compositions among the Alyawarra
  • {{Cite book| title = Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien
  • {{Cite web| title = From the days of whips and guns now we have our land back
  • {{Cite book| title = Anmatjirra and Alyawarra land claim to Utopia pastoral lease
  • {{Cite book| title = Native tribes of Central Australia | author1-link = Walter Baldwin Spencer | author2-link = Francis James Gillen
  • {{Cite book| title = Die Aranda- und Loritja-stämme in Zentral-Australien | author-link = Carl Strehlow
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Iliaura (NT) | author-link = Norman Tindale | chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/iliaura.htm | archive-date = 20 March 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/iliaura.htm
  • {{Cite journal | title = The Aljawara and Their Territory

References

  1. "Rostrevor's Heritage". Rostrevor College.
  2. (31 May 2015). "Elkin's story".
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