The Badjiri people, also written Budjari or Badyidi , are an Australian Aboriginal people of just north of the Paroo River , close to the southern border of Queensland .
3-770: They are not to be confused with the Pitjara/Bidjara people of the Warrego River area or the Bidjara/Bitjara people of the Bulloo River area. According to Norman Tindale , the Badjiri lands spanned some 4,100 square miles (11,000 km), reaching from around Hungerford to Eulo on the Paroo River . Their eastern limits were around Barringun , Tinnenburra, Tuen, and Cunnamulla . They were also present at Caiwarro and about
6-618: The eastern side of Currawinya . The Badjiri people spoke the Badjiri language , now extinct. Source: Tindale 1974 , p. 164 Bidjara (Warrego River) The Bidjara or Pitjara are an Aboriginal Australian people of eastern Queensland . They are to be distinguished from the Bidjara of southwestern Queensland and the Badjiri of southern Queensland. The Pitjara were estimated by Norman Tindale to have tribal lands of approximately 6,400 square miles (17,000 km ), beginning with
9-525: The areas of the headwaters of Nogoa and Warrego rivers. Their territorial extensions ran north of Augathella , to Mantuan Downs . Their eastern limits were around Killarney and Chesterton . To the south, they were present as far as Caroline, while their western borders were on the Nive River . Tindale entertained the possibility that the Pitjara and Badjiri split up, before the advent of white settlement, as
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