Miriwoong people

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Aboriginal Australian people Indigenous people of Australia

The Miriwoong people are an Aboriginal Australian group whose ancestral lands lie in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia and parts of the Northern Territory, with a distinct language and cultural traditions tied closely to their country.

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Label Occurrences
Miriwoong people canonical 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aboriginal Australian people ⓘ
Indigenous people of Australia ⓘ
associatedWithOrganization Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre ⓘ
country Australia ⓘ
culturalRegion Kimberley ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf Australia ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Miriwong ⓘ
Miriwung ⓘ
Mirwoong ⓘ
hasArtTradition painting ⓘ
song and dance ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ
hasClanStructure Miriwoong clan groups ⓘ
hasCommunity Kununurra ⓘ
Warmun region ⓘ
hasConnectionTo Ord River region ⓘ
country ⓘ
hasCulturalPractice ceremonial law ⓘ
kinship system ⓘ
traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ
hasCulturalTraditions traditions tied closely to their country ⓘ
hasCustomaryLaw Miriwoong law ⓘ
hasDistinctLanguage Miriwoong language ⓘ
hasKnowledgeSystem bush medicine knowledge ⓘ
seasonal calendar ⓘ
hasOralTradition Dreaming stories ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEffort Miriwoong language revitalization programs ⓘ
hasTotemicSystem Miriwoong totems ⓘ
language Miriwoong language ⓘ
languageFamily Jarrakan languages ⓘ
languageStatus endangered ⓘ
locatedIn Northern Territory ⓘ
Western Australia ⓘ
neighboringGroup Gajirrabeng people ⓘ
Jaru people ⓘ
Kija people ⓘ
partOf Aboriginal peoples of the Kimberley ⓘ
surface form: First Nations of the Kimberley
region East Kimberley region of Western Australia ⓘ
surface form: East Kimberley
spiritualConnectionTo land ⓘ
sacred sites ⓘ
waterways ⓘ
traditionalEconomy fishing ⓘ
gathering plant foods ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
traditionalLifestyle hunter-gatherer ⓘ
traditionalTerritory East Kimberley region of Western Australia ⓘ
parts of the Northern Territory ⓘ
usesWritingSystem Latin script (for Miriwoong language documentation) ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kimberley region → traditionalOwners → Miriwoong people ⓘ
Wyndham → hasIndigenousTraditionalOwners → Miriwoong people ⓘ
Kununurra → indigenousTraditionalOwners → Miriwoong people ⓘ