Pitjantjatjara

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They refer to themselves as Anangu (people). The Pitjantjatjara live mostly in the northwest of South Australia, extending across the border into the Northern Territory to just south of Lake Amadeus, and west a short distance into Western Australia. The land is an inseparable and important part of their identity, and every part of it is rich with stories and meaning to aṉangu.Template:Sfn

PronunciationEdit

The ethnonym Pitjantjatjara is usually pronounced (in normal, fast speech) with elision of one of the repeated syllables -tja-, thus: pitjantjara. In more careful speech all syllables will be pronounced.Template:Sfn

EtymologyEdit

The name Pitjantjatjara derives from the word pitjantja, a nominalised form of the verb "go" (equivalent to the English "going" used as a noun). Combined with the comitative suffix -tjara, it means something like "pitjantja-having" (i.e. the variety that uses the word pitjantja for "going"). This distinguishes it from its near neighbour Yankunytjatjara which has yankunytja for the same meaning.Template:Sfn This naming strategy is also the source of the names of Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra but in that case the names contrast the two languages based on their words for "this" (respectively, ngaanya and ngaatja). The two languages Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara may be grouped together under the name Nyangatjatjara (indicating that they have nyangatja for "this") which then contrasts them with Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra.Template:Sfn

LanguageEdit

Pitjantjatjara language is used as a general term for a number of closely related dialects which together, according to Ronald Trudinger were "spoken over a wider area of Australia than any other Aboriginal language".Template:Sfn It shares an 80% overlap in vocabulary with Yankunytjatjara.Template:Sfn

Some major communitiesEdit

See WARU community directoryTemplate:Sfn for a complete list

in South Australia type 2
- in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, including:
  - Ernabella also called Pukatja
  - Amata
  - Kalka
  - Pipalyatjara
- Yalata
- Oak Valley
In the Northern Territory
In Western Australia
- Wingellina also called Irruntju

HistoryEdit

From 1950 onwards, many aṉangu were forced to leave their traditional lands due to British nuclear tests at Maralinga. Some aṉangu were subsequently contaminated by the nuclear fallout from the atomic tests.Template:Sfn Their experience of issues of land rights and native title in South Australia has been unique. After four years of campaigning and negotiations with government and mining groups, the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 was passed on 19 March 1981, granting freehold title over Template:Cvt of land in the northwestern corner of South Australia.

Recognition of sacred sitesEdit

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Pitjantjatjara people (Anangu) live in the area around Uluru / Ayers Rock and south to the Great Australian Bight.

The sacred sites of Uluru / Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuṯa / Mount Olga possess important spiritual and ceremonial significance for the Anangu with more than 40 named sacred sites and 11 separate Tjukurpa (or "Dreaming") tracks in the area, some of which lead as far as the sea. Uluru / Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta / Mount Olga are separated from the Pitjantjatjara lands by the border between the Northern Territory and South Australia and have become a major tourist attraction and a national park.

Notable peopleEdit

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Gordon Briscoe, an association football player
Ian Abdulla, an award-winning author, and artist
Trevor Adamson, a country/gospel singer
Tiger Tjalkalyirri, an elder and guide
Anmanari Brown, pioneering artist
Hector Burton, an artist
Wawiriya Burton, an artist, known for acrylic works
Angkaliya Curtis, an artist
Malpiya Davey, also known as Irpintiri Davey, an artist, known for ceramic artworks
Jimmy James OAM, a tracker
Rene Kulitja, an artist, a famous design is Yananyi Dreaming, which covers a Qantas Boeing 737
David Miller, an artist
Dickie Minyintiri, an award-winning artist, and sacred lawman
Tiger Palpatja, an artist
Walter Pukutiwara, an artist
Kunmanara Stewart, an artist
Tjunkaya Tapaya, a batik artist
Malya Teamay, an Aboriginal Australian artist, and Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park management board member
Wingu Tingima, an artist
Tony Tjamiwa, also known as Tony Curtis, a traditional healer and storyteller
Harry Tjutjuna, an artist
Yannima Tommy Watson, known as Tommy Watson, an artist
Ginger Wikilyiri, an artist
Ruby Williamson, an artist, known for acrylic works
Nipper Winmarti, Aboriginal tracker and Traditional Owner of Uluru
Bart Willoughby, a musician, noted for his pioneering fusion of reggae
Frank Yamma, an early proponent of singing Western style songs in traditional language
Isaac Yamma, a country singer
Harold Allison, initiated as a member of the Pitjantjatjara