Barindji

Barindji people are an Aboriginal group whose traditional lands are located in the Far West of New South Wales, Australia.

According to one theory, the tribal name meant forest dwellers in the local languages. Tindale glosses this attribution by suggesting that the term may derive from a creek name, called the Paroo, reflecting prior tribal links. An exonym for them once used by the Darling River aborigines, who were terrified by the Barindji, called them mamba (devils).

Norman Tindale stated that their traditional lands covered some 9,000 sq. miles of territory, of predominantly mallee, mulga, sand and swamp land encompassing parts of the Mallee, and the area running parallel with and east of the Darling River. It reaches down from Moira to within 30 miles (48 km.) of Euston, and includes Ivanhoe, the Manara Range ; eastward to near Ivanhoe, New South Wales, Albermarle, Carowra, Kilfera, and Manfred and Willandra Lakes.

The Barindji were divided into at least 8 distinct hordes:-

Their water often was obtained from the roots of water mallee (Eucalyptus) trees and Hakea, hence their camping places were widely dispersed and often were casual. Some of the neighbors had more disparaging names for them.The Barindji, living in dry country, extracted water from hakea and mallee. In periods of drought, they would resort, in large mobs, to riverine areas in other tribal lands, engendering fear among, and conflict with, the riverine tribal groups.

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