Adnyamathanha

The Adnyamathanha or Adynyamathanha are a tribe of Aborigines in the area of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, Australia. Adnyamathanha means rock or hill people people (English: rock people). The Adnyamathanha 2009 received the biggest native title in Australia of 41,000 km ² awarded.

History

The Adnyamathanha live for tens of thousands of years in the area of ​​the Northern Flinders Ranges and around Lake Torrens. This Aboriginal tribe is divided into clans of Kuyani, Wailpi, Yadliaura, Pilatapa and Pangkala.

From 1851 the first Europeans settled in the land of Adnyamathanha, which led to numerous conflicts. In response to the acquisition of land stole the Aboriginal sheep who killed them ritually. They have either been displaced from their land or had worked as cattle herders and housekeeper, and soon took to the lifestyle of the early settlers afterwards. The United Aborigines Mission ( UAM ) in 1930 founded a mission station in Nepabunna. In the 70s, the Aboriginal settlement Beltana there was created by the original inhabitants of this area.

Culture and Dreamtime

Its cultural life is related to the regional salt lakes and their dreamtime, which they call Yura Muda. In their language, the Yura Muda forms their identity and common language; the women of the Adnyamathanha learn their traditional and contemporary ways of life and their spiritual Moiety at particular locations. Your dream tells time by two huge serpent beings who created the landscapes, the Akurra - one male and female serpent. And the serpent beings sleep in the salt lakes, they enter not the encrusted with salt surface of Lake Frome. Their origins, creation, history and lifestyle passed down from generation to generation.

They speak their own language and the name of the edible Witchetty Made is made up of their language, from " crooked branch " ( wityu ) and " larva " ( Vartu ).

Land rights

In its territory there are settlements of their community as Nepabunna, Beltana and Iga Warta, a tourist resort. They formed in August 1998, the first of Aboriginal reserve Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area in Australia. 's Flinders Ranges and Gammon Ranges Vulkathunha - National Park, which extends over 580 km ² It is jointly managed by Adnyamathanha and the Nepabunna - Aborigines who it have a native title, they manage in the South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust.

On March 30, 2009, Adnyamathanha received a court decision of the Federal Court of Australia, the retranslated appropriated them their ancestral land of 41,000 km ² with a Native Title. In this country right are also available rights over the mining area of the Beverley Uranium Mine. The largest Native Title in Australia extends from the eastern end of Lake Torrens through the northern Flinders Ranges to the border of South Australia and New South Wales, 918 km ² of which are located in the Flinders Ranges National Park