Ahakeye is an Aboriginal word. It refers to the Bush plum or native currant. The fruit grows on a native Australian tree called Canthium latifolium....
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Referred to as wild banana fruit. The wild banana fruit is eaten by Aboriginal people in central Australia. . It grows from under trees and spreads all over them, which enables the fruit to hang down from it....
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Alhalkere- referred to by certain Aboriginal people skin groups/names- it is a region associated within Utopia, 230 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs in central Australia....
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Alpeyt is a Aboriginal name referring to acacia flowers, which is of significance to the Aboriginal people of Ngkwarlerlanem and Arnkawenyerr regions of Utopia in Central Australia....
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Anangu (other spellings: Aṉaŋu, Arnangu) are referred to as Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal people/group.The Anangu people are the traditional owners of Uluru - Kata Tjuta (formerly known as Ayers Rock and The Olgas). Other spellings for Anangu from different Aboriginal skin groups...
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Anaty, referred to the Alyawarr language group from Utopia, as Bush potato or Desert yam. It is a source of bush tucker food for Aboriginal people in central Australia. The yams are cooked in the hot earth beside the camp...
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Ankerr is an Aboriginal word for Emu. (other spellings are anhelengkw, anhelwengk, arrang) Aboriginal language group: Alyawrr...
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Anmatyerre is a language group which is also referred to as a skin group of Indigenous Australian people from central Australia. Alternative spellings are: Anmatyerr, Nmatjera, Unmatjera, Inmatjera, Anmatjara, Urmitchee, Janmadjara, Janmatjiri, Yanmedjara, Yandmadjari, Anmatjera....
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Antwelarr is the referred to as Bush yam, a native subterranean source of food and water. Antwelarr is a totem, belonging to certain skin or language groups, such as the Anmatyerre people in central Australia....
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Arlparra is the main Aboriginal community outstation at Utopia in central Australia. There are 16 outstation attached to Utopia which are spread over 3230 square kilometres. Aboriginal language group spoken are Anmatyerre and Alyawarra....
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Arnkawenyerr is an Aboriginal region within Utopia in central Australia....
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Arnkerrth (alternative spelling Arnkerrthe) - its Aboriginal name for Mountain devil or Thorny devil. The Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) is an Australian Lizard....
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Arnwekety (conkerberry or conkleberry) is the Aboriginal word used by the Anmatyarr and Alyawarr (skin groups) people in central Australia. It is referred to as a black berry or bush plum. Arnwekety is a food source for Aboriginal people....
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Arrernte - also known as Aranda and Arrarnta (pronounced UH-rrahn-da). The Arrernte are Aboriginal people who are the original custodians of Arrernte lands in the regions around Alice Springs in central Australia. The Arrernte people are identified, depending which parts...
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Atnangker (also spelled as Atnangkere) is an Aboriginal community in the region of Utopia located 290kms Northwest of Alice Springs in central Australia....
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Atnwengerrp (pronounced a NOONG-a-pa) is a region of Utopia, 250km north-west of Alice Springs in Central Australia. Language groups spoken are Anmatyerre and Alyawarr....
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awele-awele , its Aboriginal name in the Eastern Arrernte language group for Bush tomatoes or wild tomato plant. Aboriginal people can tell when the awele-awele are ripe, the fruit goes to a yellowish even purplish colour. There rich scent when...
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Awelye or Awely represents ceremonies; women's ceremony and ceremonial design (body paint)....
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Ikuntji its Aboriginal name for Haasts Bluff. Ikuntji is a Aboriginal community 227 west of Alice Springs in central Australia. It is home to Western Arrernte, Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara people....
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Inapaku is the Warlpiri aboriginal name for Lake Surprise located in the Tanami Desert in Central Australia....
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Ingkwerrpme is its Aboriginal name Eastern Arrernte Aboriginal people referred too as Edible Mistletoe in central Australia....
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Ininti is the Aboriginal word for the seeds of the native bat’s wing coral tree (grey corkwood), which grows in the Central and Northern regions of Australia....
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Ancestor spirits protect sacred sites and special places throughout Eastern Arrernte Country in Central Australia. Irrernte- arenye, a name which means "belonging to the cold". Once living people, Irrernte-arenye are said to live in a cold place....
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Janpanpa is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri and Anmatyerre people in central Australia. It means 'Possum', an significant totemic animal. There are certain kinship and ceremonial obligations to be maintained for those skin groups/names that are associated with...
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Japaljarri is male Warlpiri skin name/group in central Australia. A person is born into one of the 8 groups (subsections as they are known technically) and thus acquires, in addition to his personal name, the name belonging to that skin...
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Jukurrpa is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people and other language groups in central Australia. It means ' Dreaming' Jukurrpa is about: Aboriginal religion, law and moral systemsthe past, the present and the future the creation period when...
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Kakadu comes from an Aboriginal floodplain language called Gagudju which was one of the languages spoken in the north of the park at the beginning of the twentieth century. Kakadu National Park is a World Heritage listed place and of...
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Karlangu is an Aboriginal word used by certain Aboriginal people/ language groups in central Australia. It means 'digging sticks'....
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Karntakurlangu is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people/language group in central Australia. The word translates to 'belonging to women'. Jukurrpa is an Aboriginal word used by Warlpiri people/language group. It translate to 'Dreaming'. Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa translates to '...
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Kata Tjuta its Aboriginal name for The Olgas. Kata Tjuta is its Pitjantjatjara name meaning 'many heads'. This site is as sacred to the Australian Aboriginal people as Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) is. There are many Pitjantjatjara Dreamtime...
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other spellings are Kokata Kokatha Mula, Googatha - Aboriginal language group/clan in South Australia...
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Kuntunga is an Aboriginal word used by Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal people - it refers to mother of all spirit-children. Kuntunga is an Aboriginal Dreamtime Creation mythology....
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Kutjuta, an Aboriginal word used for Bush tomato to by the Anmatyerre people in central Australia. Kutjuta plants are small fast-growing shrubs that fruit prolifically the year after fire or good rains. The fruit have been used as food sources...
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Santa Teresa - an Aboriginal community east of Alice Springs in Central Australia....
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Marlu is an Aboriginal word in the Warlpiri language for Kangaroo in central Australia. 'Marlu' are highly valued as a Bush tucker by Warlpiri people....
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'Mina Mina'- an ancestral place that digging sticks emerged from the ground. The Mina Mina site is nestled around Lake MacKay, north-west of Yuendumu in central Australia bordering on the Tanami & Gibson Desert....
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Mparntwe its traditional name for Alice Springs, which is referred to by the Aboriginal Arrernte people, the native title owners of this area. In the Dreamtime, it is said after the caterpillar's created Emily Gap, the ancestral caterpillar spread out...
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Mpwelarr is an Aboriginal word used for Rainbow. Aboriginal language group: Alyawarr...
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The Aboriginal word mpwelarr translates to rainbow. Another Aboriginal word is atherrk-atherrk....
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The Aboriginal word mpwelarr translates to rainbow. Another Aboriginal word is atherrk-atherrk....
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Ngangkari is an Aboriginal word for the Pitjantjatjara language group - it means traditional healer....
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Ngarleyekwerlang is located 300km north west of Alice Springs in the Yuelumu (Mt. Allan ) country in central Australia. To some Aboriginal people it is referred to as Emu country - Emu Dreaming....
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Ngarlkirdi is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people/language group in central Australia. It means ' Witchetty grub'....
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Ngintaka is an Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal word used to explain a giant perentie lizard spirit being of Australian Aboriginal "Dreaming" Creation mythology....
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Ngkwarlerlanem is an Aboriginal community within the Utopia region in central Australia....
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Ngurlu is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people in central Australia. It means seed, which are gathered by the Aboriginal women and taken back to camp to be sorted and ready for grinding, The ground seeds are ready...
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Ntang - an Aboriginal word used for seed favored as an abundant and edible bush food (bush tucker)....
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Nula Nula is a term Aboriginal people use in central Australia. It is also known as a waddy or a hunting stick. A Nula Nula is a heavy club made from strong carved timber. The Nula Nula have been used...
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Papulankutja is its Aboriginal name in the for Blackstone, which is situated between the Western Desert and the Great Victorian Desert, home of the Papulankutja Aboriginal community. A picturesque place at the foot of the Blackstone ranges, it has plentiful...
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Pipalyatjara (formerly known as Mount Davies) is an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Amata, Ernabella/Pukatja, Fregon/ Kaltjiti, Indulkana and Mimili). Geographic:...
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Pitjantjatjara country is mostly in the north-west of South Australia, extending across the border into the Northern Territory to just south of Lake Amadeus, and west a short distance into Western Australia. Pitjantjatjara is also referred to as an Aboriginal...
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Pukatja is the Aboriginal name which was formerly known as Ernabella. Pukatja is in the eastern Musgrave Ranges, west of the Stuart Highway, about 30 km south of the Northern Territory border....
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Rwetyepme is its Aboriginal name for Mount Sonder, which is part of the MacDonnell ranges west of Alice Springs in central Australia. Rwetyepme is of spiritual significance to the traditional owners, the Arrernte people. Mount Sonder was a favourite landscape...
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Tali is an aboriginal word the pintupi people in central Australia use to describe sand hills. In artwork it is depicted in a linear style....
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Tharrkarr is an Aboriginal word used form Honey Grevillea (other spellings are: Tharrkarrarl, anantherr, antywelp-antwem, alpeyt-itwew). Aboriginal language group: Alyawarr....
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Tingari or Tingarri cycle (Aboriginal mythology) embodies a vast series of songlines, locations and events that traverse the Western Desert region of Australia. The Tingari is significant to the Pintubi people of this region....
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Tjamu is referred by the Pitjantjatjara people for grandfather....
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Tjanpi Kampanyi are Aboriginal words used for burning grass. Aboriginal language group in central Australia: Luritja....
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Tjukurrpa is an Aboriginal word used by the Pitjantjatjara people in central Australia. The word translated means "dreaming", The Dreamtime, Aboriginal creation mythology....
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Typale is an Aboriginal word referred to by the Aboriginal women from Utopia in central Australia as a brush- like flat stick with soft padding. Typale is used to apply body paint designs from ground ochre (clays), charcoal and ash...
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Uluru is the Aboriginal name known formerly as Ayers Rock in central Australia....
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The name Utopia was named when European immigrants began settling the Northern Territory. The region of Utopia is approximately 270 km north east of Alice Springs in central Australia Within its boundaries are Aboriginal communities; Atneltye Boundary Bore, Lyentye Mosquito...
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Utyerrke its Aboriginal name referred to by the Arrernte people in central Australia as Wild figs. The Aboriginal women pick the fruit when the figs turn red. When the figs goes dark and shrivels, they are mashed into a ball...
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Wanakiji is a Warlpiri word used for Bush Tomato. Wanakiji are small fast-growing shrubs that fruit prolifically the year after fire or good rains. The fruit have been used as Bush tucker by central Australian Aboriginal people for many thousands...
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Wardapi is the Aboriginal word referred to by the Warlpiri people in central Australia as Goanna....
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Warlawurru is an Aboriginal word in the Warlpiri language group from central Australia. It translates to Eaglehawk or wedge-tailed eagle. It is an important moiety bird....
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Warlukurlangu is an Aboriginal word in the Warlpiri language. It means "belonging to fire", which is named after a significant Fire Dreaming, west of Yuendumu in central Australia....
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Warna is an Aboriginal word used by Warlpiri people/group in central Australia. It means 'Snake'....
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The Aboriginal word Watarrka in Luritja language refers to the umbrella bush that proliferates in this amazing landscape and surrounding of King Canyon in central Australia. Watarrka National Park, synonymous with its most famous landmark, Kings Canyon, is located 450...
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Wiltja is referred by the Pitjantjatjara people for wurlie, shelter or shade....
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Yakajirri is the Aboriginal word in Warlpiri language for Bush current....
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Yalke, its Aboriginal name for Bush onion or Wild onion. Yalke is actually not related to the onion species, but rather a species of sedge. It is an Australian native plant called Cyperus bulbosus Yalke is a traditional bush tucker...
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Yawulyu is an Aboriginal word in the Warlpiri language group in central Australia. It translates to Women's body designs, song, dance, ceremony, performance....
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Yeperenye is refereed to by the Aboriginal Arrernte people for caterpillar. Yeperenye Dreaming also known as 'Caterpillar Dreaming' is a significant Dreamtime story in Aboriginal mythology. Emily Gap in Alice Springs, central Australia is where the main creative ancestors originated....
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Yerramp is an Aboriginal word used for Honey ant. (other spelling are: yerrampan, arrwantyem, arrpemarl). Aboriginal language group: Alyawarr....
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Yiwarra is an Aboriginal word in the Warlpiri language group. It means 'Milky Way'. Aboriginal mythology recounts in the Dreamtime where the ancestors broke the Milky Way (called Yiwarra) into individual stars that we see today. Some fragments fell to...
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In Warlpiri language Yiwarra is the word for Milky Way. The Milky Way Dreaming is a significant Dreamtime story, which is retold in artworks, song and dance as well as re-enacted in ceremonies. Yiwarra ancestors broke the Milky Way into...
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Yuelamu is its Aboriginal name for Mount Allan, which is situated 250km west of Alice Springs in central Australia. Yuelamu is one of the main Honey Ant Dreaming sites for this area and the resting place of the Western Deserts...
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