Mirning people

The Mirning people are a group of Indigenous Australians whose traditional lands lie in the coastal region of the Great Australian Bight of south-west South Australia and bordering Western Australia.

The Mirning are relatively short in stature and practice rites of circumcision and subincision. The Mirning language is called Ngandatha, from the phrase "What is it?".

The Mirning people were one of the founding members of People of the Whale, a project to research the relationship between whales and indigenous people. Part of the project was making a documentary film, Eyes of the Soul, which was conceived by Kim Kindersley and Julian Lennon in 1994. By 1998, funding ran out and the film project was abandoned.

A new documentary called Whaledreamers - the Gathering, about indigenous tribes, was made in 2006.

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