Mikurrunya Hills

One of the wives in the Mikurrunya dreamtime story

Mikurrunya Hills is a geologic formation situated approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of Port Hedland, near Marble Bar Road[1] at the Strelley turnoff,[2] on Nyangumarta country. Mikurrunya Hills is a registered site on the National Native Title Register through the Department of Indigenous Affairs with site ID 9904, site No. P02286; the register records the native title as belonging to the Ngarla people.[3]

The Nyangumarta people have a dreamtime story of the hills: Mikurri is a man with two wives, and the jealousy of the older wife forced the younger wife to live apart from the family.[1][4]

The name Mikurrunya was also that of the tri-lingual newsletter the Strelley Aboriginal community school produced in the 1970s.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Nyangumarta Overview | Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre". www.wangkamaya.org.au.
  2. ↑ Patrick McConvell. "Aboriginal Placenames". Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "Extract of National Native Title Register" (PDF). National Native Title Tribunal. 7 April 2021.
  4. ↑ McConvell, Patrick. "Chapter 16 Where the spear sticks up" (PDF). Australian National University(ANU). p. 375. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  5. ↑ "STRELEEY-Aboriginal Community School". Tribune. No. 2112. New South Wales, Australia. 19 September 1979. p. 9. Retrieved 5 April 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ Strelley Literature Production Centre; Strelley Literature Centre (1979), Mikurrunya : Strelley community newsletter, Strelley Literature Centre, retrieved 5 April 2021

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