Earth:Mikurrunya Hills
Mikurrunya Hills is a geologic formation situated approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of Port Hedland, near Marble Bar Road[1] at the Strelley turnoff,[2] on Nyangumarta[disputed ] country. Mikurrunya Hills is a registered site on the National Native Title Register through the Department of Indigenous Affairs with site ID 9904, site No. P02286; the register records the native title as belonging to the Ngarla people.[3]
The Nyangumarta people have a dreamtime story of the hills: Mikurri is a man[failed verification (See discussion.)] with two wives, and the jealousy of the older wife forced the younger wife to live apart from the family.[1][4]
The name Mikurrunya was also that of the tri-lingual newsletter the Strelley Aboriginal community school produced in the 1970s.[5][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Nyangumarta Overview | Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre". https://www.wangkamaya.org.au/pilbara-languages/nyangumarta-overview.
- ↑ Patrick McConvell. "Aboriginal Placenames". http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p17331/html/ch16.xhtml?page=27.
- ↑ "Extract of National Native Title Register". 7 April 2021. http://www.nntt.gov.au/searchRegApps/NativeTitleRegisters/NNTR%20Extracts/WCD2013_001/NNTRExtract_WCD2013_001.pdf.
- ↑ McConvell, Patrick. "Chapter 16 Where the spear sticks up" (pdf). Australian National University(ANU). p. 375. http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p17331/pdf/ch163.pdf.
- ↑ "STRELEEY-Aboriginal Community School". Tribune (New South Wales, Australia) (2112): p. 9. 19 September 1979. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article259554603. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ↑ Strelley Literature Production Centre; Strelley Literature Centre (1979), Mikurrunya : Strelley community newsletter, Strelley Literature Centre, https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18643614, retrieved 5 April 2021
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