The Pintupi are an Australian Aboriginal group who are part of the Western Desert cultural group and whose traditional land is in the area west of Lake Macdonald and Lake Mackay in Western Australia. These people moved (or were moved) into the Aboriginal communities of Papunya and Haasts Bluff in the west of the Northern Territory in the 1940s–1980s. The last Pintupi to leave their traditional lifestyle in the desert, in 1984, are a group known as the Pintupi Nine, also sometimes called the "lost tribe".
Over recent decades groups of Pintupi have moved back to their traditional country, as part of what has come to be called the outstation movement. These groups set up the communities of Kintore (Walungurru in Pintupi) in the Northern Territory, Kiwirrkura and Jupiter Well (in Pintupi: Puntutjarrpa) in Western Australia. There was also a recent dramatic increase in Pintupi populations and speakers of the Pintupi language.[1]
The Pintupi are an Australian Aboriginal group who are part of the Western Desert cultural group and whose traditional land is in the area west of Lake...
The Pintupi Nine were a group of nine Pintupi people who remained unaware of European colonisation of Australia and lived a traditional desert-dwelling...
Pintupi (/ˈpɪntəpi, ˈpɪnə-, -bi/) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of...
through the Pintupi desert region during the Dreaming. It is a complex mythology of narratives, songs and ceremonies known to the Pintupi as Tingarri...
Luritja). The variety of Luritja spoken at Kintore is often referred to as Pintupi/Luritja. /ɾ/ can range to a trill [r] in emphatic speech among speakers...
(Leningrad: "Children's Literature" Publishing.) Myers, Fred (1986). Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self. USA: Smithsonian Institution. Look up smoke signal in Wiktionary...
Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri (Pintupi: [waɭɪmb̥ɪr ɟab̥əɭɟari]; born late 1950s) is an Australian Aboriginal artist. He is one of central Australia's most...
and female forms, giving a total of sixteen skin names, for example the Pintupi (listed below) and Warlpiri. While membership in skin groups is ideally...
Ant Dreaming was a mural painted in early 1971 from June to August by Pintupi tribesmen on the outer wall of the school where Geoffrey Bardon taught...
trips mounted by anthropologist Donald Thomson to meet with and learn from Pintupi Indigenous Australians between 1957 and 1965. Thomson travelled to the...
Black War Missions Native police Native Title Act 1993 Pilbara strike Pintupi Nine Stolen Generations Apology Tent embassy Western Australia Issues 1967...
The Pintupi Nine lived a traditional life in the Gibson Desert of Australia until 1984, having earlier split off from another group of Pintupi people...
is said that this was done to represent the nine levels of Xibalba. The Pintupi Nine, a group of 9 Aboriginal Australian women who remained unaware of...
ornithologist. he is known for his studies of and friendship with the Pintupi and Yolngu peoples, and for his intervention in the Caledon Bay crisis...
Lake Mackay, known as Wilkinkarra to the Indigenous Pintupi people, is the largest of hundreds of ephemeral salt lakes scattered throughout the Pilbara...
player Ashleigh Barty was ranked world number one. In 1984, a group of Pintupi people who were living a traditional hunter-gatherer desert-dwelling life...
Papunya (Pintupi-Luritja: Warumpi) is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly 240 kilometres (150 mi) northwest of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in...
of the desert after Warri and Yatungka, with the final group being the Pintupi Nine, who first contacted the western world in 1984. Warri and Yatungka...
Great Victoria) Desert northwest of Ooldea (spoken by the Ngalia people) Pintupi* – Kintore (Northern Territory) and further west. Pitjantjatjara* – North-west...
Warumungu in the centre around Tennant Creek, Arrernte around Alice Springs, Pintupi-Luritja to the south east, Pitjantjatjara in the south near Uluru / Ayers...
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