Nguri people

Indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland

The Nguri are an indigenous Australian people of southern Queensland.

Country

Nguri land centres around the north of the Maranoa River and ends at the gorges of the Chesterton Range. Norman Tindale estimated their territory at 3,500 square miles (9,100 km²), covering the area running northwards from Mount Elliot and Donnybrook as far as Merivale west of the Great Dividing Range, including Hillside and Redford.^[1]

Alternative names

Ngoorie^[2]
Gnoree^[1]

Notes

Citations

^ ^a ^b Tindale 1974, p. 184.
^ Barlow 1873, p. 173.

Sources

"AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 28 July 2023.
Barlow, Harriott (1873). "Vocabulary of Aboriginal Dialects of Queensland". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 (2): 165–175. doi:10.2307/2841159. JSTOR 2841159.
Mathews, R. H. (1898). "Divisions of Queensland aborigines". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 37 2: 327–336 and map.
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Nguri (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.