Gooniyandi
The Gooniyandi, also known as the Konejandi, are an indigenous Australian people of Western Australia.
Gooniyandi with Bunuba is one of the two languages of the Bunuban language family.
Gooniyandi traditional land stretched over some 4,600 square miles (12,000 km2) from Fitzroy Crossing in the west to Margaret River Stations 150 miles to the east. Their heartland lay north around the limestone enclaves of the King Leopold Ranges and around Stony river. Norman Tindale states that their territory encompassed also Bohemia Down, the Ramsay, Sandstone, Mueller, Burramundy, and Geikie Ranges.
According to their tradition, they also had a native purchase on the plains on the northern side of Christmas Creek before the advent of whites, but had lost this area to the Walmadjari.
Gooniyandi society is divided into 8 subsections (gooroo), each divided into male and female classes.
The Gooniyandi comprised numweouas inland foraging bands, each harvesting the rich resources, of reptiles, crustaceans and fish to be found along their water courses. They had three distinct terms for the types of territory their land covered. Though basically riverine dwellers, shifting around pools, springs and rivers in what they called walibiri lands (river country), they also ventured over pindiri or plains of scrub-land (ti:winji) and forested zones (ke'rede(trees)) to hunt for kangaroos. A third term was ka:waro, denoting the mountainous areas where the euro could be found. Labour was gendered, with men hunting game, which included bustards, echidnas and emu, while the women gathered vegetables, honey and such protein foodstuffs as witchetty grubs and frogs.
The Fitzroy Crossing Gooniyandi were ideally placed to be intermediaries in northwest trade, which they called tjirdi or wirnandi. The crossing was a strategic transit point for trading goods that were passed on over vast distances. They would exchange with southern tribes manufactured goods from the northwest and east like tjimbila, bifaced pressure-flaked stone knives for rites like circumcision and also used for spear blades.
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