Ngaatjatjarra people
The Ngaatjatjarra, otherwise spelt Ngadadjara, are an indigenous Australian people of Western Australia.
The ethnonym Ngaatjatjarra, in line with a general practice in their area, combines the interrogative pronoun used by each tribe for 'who','what'. In their case this yields up a combination of ŋa:da, and the possessive suffix -t(d)jara, is attached. The sense therefore is, '(people) using the form ŋa:da for the idea of 'who/what'.
Ngaatjatjarra is mutually intelligible with Ngaanyatjarra, and both are treated as dialects of the one language.
Norman Tindale assigned them traditional lands he estimated as covering roughly 30,000 square miles (78,000 km2) The centre of their traditional life was in the Warburton Ranges, and in particular at a site, Warupuju Spring where water was always available. Their eastern frontiers lay around Fort Welcome, the Blackstone Ranges, Murray Range, and Mount Hinckley. In the southeast, their furthest boundary was at the Ero:tjo watering hole, south of Wangalina. To the northeast, they roamed as far as Kudjuntari in the Schwerin Mural Crescent Range, and around Julia (Giles) in the Rawlinson Ranges. Their northern range extended to Hopkins Lake and Carnegie Range and beyond the Christopher Lake. Their western limits were around Tekateka and Jalara and the Alfred Marie Ranges.
Tindale's map places the neighbouring tribes of the Ngaatjatjarra as, running clockwise, the Keiadjara and the Wenamba to their north, the Pitjantjatjara on their eastern frontier, the Nakako and Mandjindja to their south, and the Ngaanyatjarra on their western borders. The AIATSIS map calls then Ngatatjara, and absorbs the Keiadjara and the Wenamba in to the Martu and Pintupi respectively.
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