The vast and harsh Nullarbor Plain, as seen from space. Courtesy NASA.
The Pila Nguru, often referred to in English as the Spinifex people, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia, whose lands extend to the border with South Australia and to the north of the Nullarbor Plain.[1][2] The centre of their homeland is in the Great Victoria Desert, at Tjuntjunjarra, some 700 kilometres (430 mi) east of Kalgoorlie,[3] perhaps the remotest community in Australia.[4] Their country is sometimes referred to as Spinifex country.[5] The Pila Nguru were the last Australian people to have dropped the complete trappings of their traditional lifestyle.[6]
They maintain in large part their traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle within the territory,[7] over which their claims to native title in Australia and associated collective rights were recognised by a 28 November 2000 Federal Court decision. In 1997, an art project was started in which Indigenous paintings became part of the title claim. In 2005, a major exhibit of their works in London brought the artists widespread attention.[8]
Pila Nguru, often referred to in English as the Spinifexpeople, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia, whose lands extend to the border...
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(including Torres Strait Islander people), freshwater people, rainforest people, desert people, or spinifexpeople, (the latter referring to the Pila...
Tjuntjuntjara community members are part of a larger group known as the Spinifexpeople, who were removed from their homelands (which range across the WA and...
with the desert people of Australia, including some of the last hunter-gatherers. He is the author of Pila Nguru: The SpinifexPeople. He appeared in...
desert areas remained undeveloped for a long time. For example, the Spinifexpeople first had contact with whites in the 1950s, when they were expelled...
taipan measuring 1.3 m (4.3 ft) in total length was captured by the Spinifexpeople from the Tjuntjuntjara Aboriginal community during a biological study...
apply at all in the case of some isolated populations, such as the SpinifexPeople, the Sentinelese, and various Amazonian tribes, which still make use...
peoples, who are ethnically, culturally and linguistically distinct from Australian Aboriginal peoples, although also an Indigenous Australian people...
performers share the stories of the Yindjibarndi people in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Spinifex Gum has its origins in a 2014 visit by the Gondwana...
Spinifex longifolius, commonly known as beach spinifex, is a perennial grass that grows in sandy regions along the seacoast. It also lives in most deserts...
1982]. Daughters of the Dreaming. Spinifex Press. ISBN 978-1-876-75615-4. Brooks, Sally (16 October 2016). "Warlpiri people unite under desert skies for epic...
Ngarrindjeri, Nukunu, Parnkalla, Peramangk, Pitjantjatjara, Ramindjeri, Spinifexpeople, Warki. The South Australia Act 1834 described the land as "waste"...
state of Queensland. Pama-Nyungan peoples Kunapa: Northern Territory, Australia Pini: Western Australia, Australia Spinifex: Western Australia, Australia...
thought that earlier groups had disappeared, replaced by an influx of spinifexpeople from the north. By her time, the Trans-Australian Railway route had...
in Western Australia, in contravention of the Wik ruling. 2000 the SpinifexPeople of the Eastern Wangai are the second Western Australian group to be...
on the Indigenous Australians in the region, who were known as the Spinifexpeople. A video recording was made of the production performed by Black Swan...
Spinifex Press is an independent feminist book publisher based in Australia. It was established in March 1991 by Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne. It has...
perspective on the lesbian sexual revolution. North Melbourne, Victoria: Spinifex. ISBN 9781875559176. Jeffreys, Sheila (1997). The spinster and her enemies:...
large clumps of spinifex. The sharing of commodities such as food and tobacco aids in maintaining the egalitarian nature of the Martu people. Hunters will...
Indigenous People: Modern Treaty and Agreement-making. Federation Press. p. 168. ISBN 9781862876187. Scott Cane (2002). Pila Nguru: The SpinifexPeople. Fremantle:...
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