Ngaanyatjarra is an Indigenous Australian cultural group in the Western Desert, Central Australia. Meaning and origin of the name Ngaanya literally means this that is, the demonstrative pronoun and tjarra means with having the comitative suffix the compound term means those that use ngaanya to say this . Some neighbouring dialect groups are the Ngaatjatjarra and the Nyangatjatjarra , who use ngaatja and nyangatja respectively for this . Regions The Ngaanyatjarra people make use of the resources of the following biogeographic regions North Western Great Sandy Desert Little Sandy Desert South East Gascoyne region of Western Australia Gascoyne Gibson Desert Central Great Victoria Desert Western Central Ranges The Western Desert cultural bloc covers about 600 000 square kilometres with diverse cultures, traditions and language groups. Languages Most people in the region speak Ngaanyatjarra as a first language, some people may also speak English, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, Noongar and other regional Indigenous languages. The Ngaanyatjarra refer to themselves as Anangu people . see Western Desert Language The Ngaanyatjarra people are very proactive in maintaining their own language, using informal teaching ref Kral, Inge 2008 . http blogs.usyd.edu.au elac 2008 10 education restructure ... The Ngaanyatjarra region has very diverse regional cultures ref Shire of Nganyatjarraku 2010 ... The Ngaanyatjarra lands consists of Wingellina, Blackstone Papulankutja , Jameson, Warburton, Western ..., Patjarr, Kanpa, Cosmo Newberry. On 29 June 2005 the Ngaanyatjarra lands were the subject ... on the region http www.tjulyuru.com Ngaanyatjarra Shire Council website Arts Organisations Websites ... http www.waru.org ngmedia Ngaanyatjarra Media website http www.ngurra.org Ngaanyatjarra Media website ... Ngaanyatjarra entry in the AusAnthrop database http www.humanrights.gov.au media releases 2005 23 05.html ... region of Western Australia Category Indigenous peoples of Australia lt Ngaanyatjarra sv Ngaanyatjarra ... more details
Infobox Language name Ngaanyatjarra familycolor Australian region Western Australia speakers 1200 fam2 Pama Nyungan languages Pama Nyungan fam3 South West Pama Nyungan languages South West fam4 Wati languages Wati iso2 aus iso3 ntj Ngaanyatjarra also Nyanganyatjara, Ngaanyatjara, Ngaanjatjarra is an Australian Aboriginal languages Australian Aboriginal language . It is one of the Wati languages of the large South West Pama Nyungan languages South West branch of the Pama Nyungan languages Pama Nyungan family . It is one of the dialects of the Western Desert Language and is very similar to its close neighbour Ngaatjatjarra language Ngaatjatjarra , with which it is highly mutually intelligible. Most Ngaanyatjarra people live in one of the communities of Warburton, Western Australia Warburton , Warakurna , Tjukurla , Papulankutja Blackstone, Western Australia Blackstone , Mantamaru Jameson or Kaltukatjara, Northern Territory Kaltukatjara Docker River . Some have moved to Cosmo Newberry and Laverton in the Eastern Goldfields area of Western Australia . Origin of the name The name Ngaanyatjarra derives from the word ngaanya this which, combined with the comitative suffix tjarra means something like ngaanya having . This distinguishes it from its near neighbour Ngaatjatjarra which has ngaatja for this . References Glass, Amee and Hackett, Dorothy. 1979. Ngaanyatjarra texts. New Revised edition of Pitjantjatjara texts 1969 . Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. ISBN 0 391 01683 0. Glass, Amee and Hackett, Dorothy. 2003. Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English Dictionary . IAD press, Alice Springs. ISBN 1 86465 053 2 External links http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code ntj Ethnologue report for language code ntj Category Wati languages ia lang stub pms Lenga ngaanyatjarra ru ... more details
area becoming the new Shire. It is a community of interest within the traditional lands of the Ngaanyatjarra people of the Central Desert of Western Australia. The 99 year leases held by the Ngaanyatjarra ... and Ngaanyatjarraku. Ngaanyatjarra language Ngaanyatjarra is the first language of most residents .... Some other statistics 98.8 are Australian citizens compared with 86.1 nationwide 65.9 speak Ngaanyatjarra ... 1 Primary & High Schools K 10 8 Ngaanyatjarra Council Aboriginal Corporation The associated Ngaanyatjarra ... Ngaanyatjarra Community College , Warburton Communities Land Management Native Title Representative Body Ngaanyatjarra Agencies and Transport Services Inc NATS Ngaanyatjarra Services Aboriginal ... Alice Springs fuel franchise supplies Caltex fuel and petroleum products to all Ngaanyatjarra communities ... ngcouncil.asp Ngaanyatjarra Council http www.tjulyuru.com locauth.asp Tjulyuru Regional ... Category Indigenous Australian communities Ngaanyatjarra Category Local Government Areas of Western ... more details
Infobox Language name Ngaatjatjarra familycolor Australian region Western Australia speakers 500 fam2 Pama Nyungan languages Pama Nyungan fam3 South West Pama Nyungan languages South West fam4 Wati languages Wati iso2 aus iso3 ntj Ngaatjatjarra also Ngaatjatjara, Ngaadadjarra is an Australian Aboriginal languages Australian Aboriginal dialect of the Western Desert language . It is spoken in the Western Desert cultural bloc which covers about 600 000 square kilometres of the arid central and central western desert. It is very similar to its close neighbours Ngaanyatjarra , Pitjantjatjara language Pitjantjatjara and Pintupi , with which it is highly mutually intelligible. Most Ngaatjatjarra people live in one of the communities of Warburton, Western Australia Warburton , Warakurna , Tjukurla or Docker River . Origin of the name The name Ngaatjatjarra derives from the word ngaatja this which, combined with the comitative suffix tjarra means something like ngaatja having . This distinguishes it from its near neighbour Ngaanyatjarra which has ngaanya for this . References DOUSSET Laurent 2002. Politics and demography in a contact situation The establishment of Giles Meteorological Station in the Rawlinson Ranges, Aboriginal History, 26 1 22. DOUSSET Laurent 2003. On the misinterpretation of the Aluridja kinship system type Australian Western Desert , Social Anthropology, 11 1 43 61. DOUSSET Laurent 2005. Structure and Substance Combining Classic and Modern Kinship Studies in the Australian Western Desert, TAJA, 16 1 18 30. DOUSSET L. 2003. Indigenous modes of representing social relationships A short critique of the genealogical concept , Aboriginal Studies, 2003 1 19 29. GLASS A. & HACKETT D. 2003. Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English dictionary. Alice Springs IAD. ISBN 1 86465 053 2 GOULD R.A. 1968. Living Archaeology The Ngatatjara of Western Australia, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 24 2 101 122. GOULD R.A. 1969. Subsistence behavior among the Western dese ... more details
Aboriginal Air Services was an umbrella company of 4 distinct airlines owned by the Australian Aborigines Aboriginal people of Australia . The four companies gradually came together as a consortium over the nearly twenty years 20 years ref http web.archive.org web 20080501162915 http www.acr.net.au tony AboriginalAir.html Aboriginal Air Services Bot generated title ref . These four separately owned entities have come together over the past 20 years to form this consortium, now known as Aboriginal Air Services. This service is fully owned by the Aboriginal people. The consortium is no longer operating ref http www.theage.com.au news Business Aboriginal Air Services to close 2006 09 15 1157827152268.html ref . Airlines Ngaanyatjarra Airfor Western Australia Western Australia Ngurrajuta Air Northern Territories Janami Air Northern Territories , from the Warlpiri tribe PY Air Southern Territories References reflist Category Defunct airlines of Australia Australia company stub Oceania airline stub ... more details
more westerly relations, the Ngaanyatjarra language Ngaanyatjarra , to move east towards the railway ... meaning. This naming strategy is also the source of the names of Ngaanyatjarra language Ngaanyatjarra ... nyangatja for this which then contrasts them with Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra . ref name GoddardGrammar ... year 1979 title Ngaanyatjarra texts. New Revised edition of Pitjantjatjara texts 1969 publisher ... Growing Strong Together publisher Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara Women s Council ..., Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra peoples, communities and organisations http www.yalata.org Yalata ... more details
under the umbrella of the Ngaanyatjarra Council. ref name abc.net.au blockquote The town was hit ... large Aboriginal reserve, Ngaanyatjarra which is extremely isolated, stretching east to the Northern ... of contemporary cultural context within which Ngaanyatjarra life operates. ref name wilurarra.com ... recording studio in the Ngaanyatjarra region, and its programs have been across various art and cultural ... funded by the Federal Attorney General s Department and occur in the town of Warburton on the Ngaanyatjarra ... ref . Ngaanyatjarra Community College was opened in August 1996 to provide a range of adult education ... from the Ngaanyatjarra Council to enter the town and use any of the highways in the area. Local ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Anangu Schools are schools in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara APY in the north west of South Australia . They are staffed by the South Australian Department of Education and Children s Services South Australia Department of Education and Children s Services , these staff require permits to enter and work on the APY. There are three related groups, being the Pitjantjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra, and Yankunytjatjara peoples in the Northern Territory , Western Australia and South Australia . Locations Amata, South Australia Amata Anangu School Ernabella, South Australia Ernabella Anangu School Fregon, South Australia Fregon Anangu School Indulkana, South Australia Indulkana Anangu School Kenmore Park, South Australia Kenmore Park Anangu School Mimili, South Australia Mimili Anangu School Murputja, South Australia Murputja Anangu School Pipalyatjara, South Australia Pipalyatjara Anangu School Watarru, South Australia Watarru Anangu School Other remote Aboriginal schools Oak Valley, South Australia Oak Valley Aboriginal School Yalata, South Australia Yalata Aboriginal School coord missing South Australia Category Public schools in South Australia Category High schools in South Australia Category Indigenous Australian education Australia school stub ... more details
italic title taxobox name Hannafordia image image caption regnum Plantae unranked divisio Angiosperms unranked classis Eudicots unranked ordo Rosids ordo Malvales familia Malvaceae subfamilia Byttnerioideae tribus Lasiopetaleae genus Hannafordia genus authority F.Muell. subdivision ranks Species subdivision See text. Hannafordia is a genus of flowering plant s native to Australia ref name WA FloraBase name Hannafordia id 21777 ref Species include ref name APNI cite web url http www.anbg.gov.au cgi bin apni?TAXON NAME HANNAFORDIA title Hannafordia accessdate 2008 01 31 work Australian Plant Name Index APNI , IBIS database publisher Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra ref Hannafordia bissillii small F.Muell. small &ndash Grey Felt bush or Tjirin tjirinpa Ngaanyatjarra language Hannafordia quadrivalvis small F.Muell. small Hannafordia shanesii small F.Muell. small References reflist Category Malvales of Australia Category Byttnerioideae Category Eudicot genera Australia rosid stub Malvales stub es Hannafordia pt Hannafordia ... more details
orphan date July 2009 notability Biographies date July 2009 refimprove date July 2009 Mr Ward 1961 27 January 2008 was an Indigenous Australians Aboriginal elder administrative title elder from Warburton, Western Australia who died after being transported in the back of a prison van in the Western Australian outback . His death was the subject of a coronial inquest . The inquest found the two guards who accompanied him, the company in charge of the prison transfer service GS4 and the WA Department of Corrective Services contributed to Mr Ward s death. Life Mr Ward was filmed as a child leading a traditional life with his family in the 1960s by film maker Ian Dunlop. As an adult, he had a wife and four sons. He was a central community figure at Warburton and in the surrounding lands with a unique knowledge of culture, land and art and was known as a culture man . He played a crucial role in forging relationships between his own community and non Aboriginal communities in Western Australia , Australia and overseas he was chosen to represent the Ngaanyatjarra lands in a delegation to China . Mr Ward assisted and worked in outback Western Australia with a variety of scientist s, geologist s, paleontologist s, geophysicist s and others associated with geological survey. He had worked as an interpreter in transactions relating to native title . Mr Ward was involved in Landcare , looked after water holes, and baited fox es, dingo es and Feral cat wild cats . He was a highly skilled hunter, but also assisted many non indigenous people to see native wildlife such as bilbies and rock wallaby rock wallabies . Mr Ward worked for many years in a battle to have the rights of his people in the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve recognised. Mr Ward was a well known dancer and speaker and created works in glass including the art glass series The Seven Seals of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands . References Anniversary of the Death of Mr Ward Natasha Boddy, Kalgoorlie Miner http bitethedust.com.au b ... more details
BLP sources date September 2007 Infobox musical artist Img Replace this image male.svg only free content images are allowed for depicting living people. Non free and fair use images, e.g. promo photos, CD DVD covers, posters, screen captures, etc., will be deleted see WP NONFREE Img size 150 Name John Gordon Born 1963 Background solo singer Origin Allora , Queensland , Australia Genre Adult contemporary music Adult contemporary , Folk music Folk , Pop rock Occupation Singer songwriter , record producer producer URL http www.johngordon.com.au www.johngordon.com.au Years active 1989&ndash present John Gordon is a songwriter and music producer from Queensland, Australia. In 2010 he produced TURLKU 4, a seminal Aboriginal album from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in the Great Western Desert of Central Australia. TURLKU 4 was recorded at Wingellina Community near the tri state border point of South Australia Northern Territory Western Australia and comprises 25 songs from numerous community bands and solo artists, from across the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. The album garnered a 4 star rating review in the UK World Music magazine SONGLINES in March, 2011 as well as receiving extensive coverage in mainstream Australian press. Songs from the album featured on Radio National and Triple J the National Youth Radio Network . Triple J placed the Album on rotation, which is unprecedented territory for contemporary Central Desert Aboriginal music. br He has released 2 recent Albums. Alive in Bornheim 2009 and Souvenir 2010 both were recorded in Frankfurt, Germany and is best perhaps best known for his song Inexorably Yours which was covered by songstress Wendy Matthews on her 1994 Multi Platinum album Lily . br In late 2010, he also released the controversial climate change protest song AUSTRALIA Whore of the World which lambasts Australia s continuing coal exports, and open slather approach to mining in general. Discography Souvenir 2010 br 1. Let The Sunshine br 2. Emily br 3. Souvenir br 4. ... more details
Infobox TV channel name ICTV Commented out because image was deleted logofile ictv.gif logosize 120px logoalt Indigenous Community Television Logo launch 2005 closed date July 12, 2007 picture format 576i Standard definition television SDTV owner Imparja Television Pty Ltd slogan Showing Our Way replaced by National Indigenous Television NITV web http www.ictv.net.au ictv.net.au broadcast area Central Australia , br Remote Tasmania , br Norfolk Island sat serv 1 Optus Optus C1 sat chan 1 Transponder 6 sat serv 2 Optus Optus D1 sat chan 2 Transponder 15 Indigenous Community Television , or ICTV , was a satellite television service that broadcast community television programs produced by, and for, indigenous people in remote communities around Australia . Programs were contributed regularly by Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Media, Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media, Warlpiri Media and Ngaanyatjarra Media for uplink by Imparja Television on their Optus C1 satellite channel 31. TOC History ICTV began began in the late 1990s as the Imparja Info Channel . It was a community TV style channel, screening predominantly local indigenous programmes and Bushvision . Many remote indigenous communities in central and north eastern Australia had analog terrestrial repeaters for this service, which utilise community licences. The service, formerly available using a satellite receivers anywhere in Australia and also retransmitted in many BRACS Broadcasting for Remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme communities in Western and Central Australia, was closed on July 12, 2007 in order to make way for a National Indigenous Television service. External links http www.ictv.net.au ICTV Official Site Channel 31 Category Australian television networks Category Indigenous Australian culture Category Indigenous Australian media Category Defunct Australian television channels Category Media in Alice Springs Category Indigenous television Australia tv stub ... more details
Manyjilyjarra near Jigalong Martu Wangka Jigalong communalect Ngaanyatjarra language Ngaanyatjarra ... on Ngaanyatjarra http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code piu Ethnologue report on Pintupi Luritja ... more details
Infobox Australian Place type town name Wingellina state wa image caption lga Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku latd 26.07 longd 128.93 pushpin label position left postcode est pop 155 elevation maxtemp mintemp rainfall stategov Electoral district of Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie fedgov Division of O Connor O Connor dist1 1700 dir1 North East location1 Perth, Western Australia Perth dist2 236 dir2 East location2 Warburton, Western Australia Warburton dist3 dir3 location3 Wingellina or Irrunytju Community is a small Indigenous Australian community in Western Australia located about convert 1700 km mi 0 east of Perth, Western Australia Perth near the Western Australian South Australian border in the Goldfields Esperance region of Western Australia. Surrounded by large granite hills with mulga and mallee country, the community maintains many traditional activities such as hunting and gathering bushfood bush tucker as well as making many carved wooden artefacts. ref cite web url http www.tjulyuru.com comm.asp TJIRRKARLI title The Ngaanyatjarra People year 2009 accessdate 2011 01 27 ref The community is situated 12km South West from the Surveyor Generals Corner near the NT SA WA border in the Gibson Desert Gibson and Great Victoria desert s. ref cite web url http www.tjulyuru.com wingellina.asp title Wingellina Community details year 2009 accessdate 2011 01 27 ref References reflist Towns Goldfields Esperance WA Category Goldfields Esperance region of Western Australia Category Indigenous Australian communities ... more details
, Peggy Misi , Elma Kris , Matthew Doyle , Don Nindihirribala , Ngaanyatjarra , Pitjantjatjarra ..., Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjarra & Yankunytjatjara Women & Doonooch Dance Co Fire &mdash composed and orchestrated ... more details
of the Aboriginal run Ngaanyatjarra Bible Project. The Language Department provided oversight of Bible ... of primers in the Ngaanyatjarra language. United Aborigines Mission. 1955 Phonology of the Australian ... Four literacy leaflets in Ngaanyatjarra and English, printed by Scripture Gift Mission, London. 1958 Pu rpa Jesusnga the Lord jesus Ngaanyatjarra and English portions under the following headings The Birth ... more details
The Western Desert cultural bloc or just Western Desert is a cultural region in Australia covering about 600,000 square kilometres, including the Gibson Desert , the Great Victoria Desert , the Great Sandy Desert Great Sandy and Little Sandy Desert s in the Northern Territory , South Australia and Western Australia . The Western Desert can be said to stretch from the Nullarbor in the south to the Kimberley region of Western Australia Kimberley in the north, and from the Percival Lakes in the west through to the Pintupi lands in the Northern Territory . This term is often used by anthropologists and linguists when discussing the 40 or so Aboriginal groups that live there, who speak dialects of one language, often called the Western Desert language . Apart from the Canning Stock Route and the Rabbit proof fence , white contact with this part of Australia was very rare, up until the 1960s blockquote No one had been out there. The desert, as far as the Department WA Dept of Suppy was concerned... was an unknown, as it was to the whole of Western Australia. The Warburton, Western Australia Warburton Ranges were as far as anybody got. People in those days knew absolutely nothing about Aborigines. ref Terry Long, Native Patrol Officer employed by Weapons Research Establishment WRE to help clear the desert beneath the trajectory of the Blue Streak missile , quoted in Davenport et al., below. ref blockquote Dialect groups Antekarinja Kukatja Luritja Mandjildjara Martu Indigenous Australian Martu Ngaatjatjarra Ngaanyatjarra Nyanganyatjarra Pitjantjatjara language Pitjantjatjara Pintupi Spinifex people Wangai Wongatha Yankunytjatjara References reflist Further reading Ronald Berndt Berndt, Ronald M. 1959 . The concept of The Tribe in the Western Desert of Australia , Oceania, 30 2 81 107. Davenport, S, Johnson, P and Yuwali, Cleared Out First Contact in the Western Desert , Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005 ISBN 0 85575 457 5 Dusset, Laurent 2005 . Assimilating Identities Social ... more details
and Ngaanyatjarra peoples, communities and organisations http web.archive.org web 20070929134044 ... Hackett. 2003 . Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English Dictionary . IAD Press, Alice Springs ... more details
Image Ringing Rocks.jpg thumb right A child strikes a rock with a hammer at Ringing Rocks Park, Pennsylvania, to generate a distinctive bell sound. Ringing Rocks are rocks that have the property of resonating like a bell when struck, such as the Musical Stones of Skiddaw in the English Lake District as well as the stones in Ringing Rocks Park, in Upper Black Eddy , Bucks County, Pennsylvania Bucks County , Pennsylvania USA and the Bell Rock Range of Western Australia. Ringing rocks are also known as sonorous rocks or lithophone lithophonic rocks , as used in idiophone idiophonic musical instruments called lithophone s. Ringing Rocks Park Ringing Rocks Park is a state park in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania at coords 40.56316098204447 75.12689352035522 display inline . ref cite web url http www.buckscounty.org government departments parksandrec Parks RingingRocks.aspx title Ringing Rocks Park format Web accessdate 2010 08 16 location Pennsylvania ref The ringing rocks in that area are diabase . In 1965, geologist Richard Faas of Lafayette College took a few of the rocks back to his lab for testing. He found that when the rocks were struck they created a series of tones at frequencies lower than the human ear can hear. An audible sound is only produced because these tones interact with each other. Although Faas s experiments explained the nature of the tones, they did not identify the specific physical mechanism in the rock which made them. ref cite web url http www.unmuseum.org ringrock.htm title Ringing Rock format Web accessdate 2010 08 16 publisher Unmuseum ref Bell Rock Range The Bell Rock Range is a large ultramafic gabbro peridotite intrusion in the Musgrave Block of Western Australia , near Warburton, Western Australia Warburton , convert 40 km mi south of the Wingellina community in the Ngaanyatjarra lands. ref name integra cite web url http www.integramining.com.au Projects OtherProjects WestMusgrave tabid 765 language en US Default.aspx title West Musgrave p ... more details
Infobox Language name Yankunytjatjara familycolor Australian region South Australia speakers 200 300 fam2 Pama Nyungan languages Pama Nyungan fam3 South West Pama Nyungan languages South West fam4 Western Desert language Wati iso2 aus iso3 kdd Yankunytjatjara also Yankuntatjara, Jangkundjara, Kulpantja is an Australian Aboriginal languages Australian Aboriginal language . It is one of the Western Desert Language Wati languages , belonging to the large South West Pama Nyungan languages South West branch of the Pama Nyungan languages Pama Nyungan family . It is one of the many varieties of the Western Desert Language , all of which are mutually intelligible . Dialects Yankunytjatjara is one of the many dialects of the Western Desert language and is very similar to the better known and more widely spoken Pitjantjatjara language Pitjantjatjara . ref Goddard, Cliff 1991 A Case Study in the Cross Cultural Semantics of Emotion Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 26 265 279 ref Young speakers of Yankunytjatjara often loan words borrow words from English language English and also from Pitjantjatjara which has expanded eastwards into Yankunytjatjara country and beyond , according to a study carried out mainly in Coober Pedy where many speakers of both varieties reside although the town is on what was traditionally Arabana language Arabana lands . ref name Naessan Naessan, Petter 2008 Some tentative remarks on the sociolinguistic vitality of Yankunytjatjara in Coober Pedy, South Australia , Australian Journal of Linguistics , 28 2,103 138 ref Yankunytjatjara shows some variation across its range with, for example, Northern Yankunytjatjara sharing features with Southern Luritja . ref name PYdict Goddard, Cliff 1987 A Basic Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara to English dictionary, N.T. Institute for Aboriginal Development ref Naming The name used for Yankunytjatjara and for Pitjantjatjara language Pitjantjatjara , Ngaanyatjarra , and others is relative, bein ... more details
Infobox Australian Place type lga name Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara state sa image APY LGA.png caption Location of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara pop 2,230 2006 Census density area 102650 est 1981 seat Umuwa mayor Bernard Singer region Outback The Outback logo url http www.waru.org stategov Electoral district of Giles Giles fedgov Division of Grey Grey near nw MacDonnell Shire , Iyarrka Ward Kaltukatjara, Northern Territory Kaltukatjara, NT near n MacDonnell Shire , Iyarrka Ward Imanpa, Northern Territory Imanpa, NT near ne MacDonnell Shire , Iyarrka Ward Aputula, Northern Territory Aputula Finke , NT near e Outback Areas Community Development Trust Outback Areas Development Trust, SA near w Ngaanyatjarraku Ngaanyatjarraku, WA near sw Laverton, Western Australia Laverton Shire, WA near s Maralinga Tjarutja Maralinga Tjarutja, SA near se District Council of Coober Pedy District Council of Coober Pedy, SA Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara APY is a large Indigenous Australians Aboriginal Local Government Areas in Australia local government area located in the remote north west of South Australia . It consists of the Pitjantjatjara people Pitjantjatjara , Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra peoples or Anangu , and has a population of around 2500 people. History The council was formed in 1981 by the passing of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act, 1981 ref http www.austlii.edu.au au legis sa consol act apylra1981489 Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 at Australasian Legal Information Institute ref by the Parliament of South Australia , and includes the Pitjantjatjara people Pitjantjatjara , Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra groups. These groups have a long association with the area. ref name indi9go Citation last Waru.org title Organizations url http www.waru.org organisations ap accessdate 2007 06 05 ref Ara Irititja is a project of the APY, commenced in 1994 to identify, copy and electronically record h ... more details
Infobox Australian Place type town name Mutitjulu state nt image caption pushpin map Northern Territory latd 25 latm 20 lats 0 longd 131 longm 04 longs 0 lga postcode est pop 150 estimate elevation 523 maxtemp 38.5 mintemp 4.7 rainfall 217 stategov Electoral division of MacDonnell MacDonnell fedgov Division of Lingiari Lingiari dist1 14 dir1 southwest location1 Yulara, Northern Territory Yulara, NT dist2 89 dir2 north location2 Amata, South Australia Amata, SA dist3 350 dir3 southwest location3 Alice Springs dist4 680 dir4 north location4 Southern Ocean Mutitjulu in Australia s Northern Territory , pop. approx. 150, is an Indigenous Australians Indigenous Australian community at the eastern end of Uluru also known as Ayers Rock . It is named after a knee shaped water filled rock hole at the base of Uluru, and is located in the world famous Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park . Its people are Traditional Owners and joint managers of the park with Parks Australia . coord 25 20 S 131 04 E region AU NT type city display title The majority of the Anangu people are Pitjantjatjara people Pitjantjatjara but there are also associated Yankunytjatjara , Luritja and Ngaanyatjarra people with the languages spoken being Pitjantjatjara, Luritja and Yangkunytjatjara. Arrernte people Arrernte people also have a traditional relationship with Uluru. Tourism Mutitjulu community run a number of guided tours for tourists visiting Uluru , who show tourists certain sites, and share Tjukurpa the story of Uluru, as well as of its inhabitants. These tours are called Anangu Tours , from the Pitjantjatjara language Pitjantjatjara word Anangu which means people . Access to the community is controlled by Anangu, who do not allow visitors to go to Mutitjulu community without permission. The community reserves the right to forbid visitors from entering their land. The people of Mutitjulu are also the traditional owners of Uluru, and have an art exhibition there which tourists can freely visit and buy pa ... more details
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