Badjiri

See also: Badjiri language

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.

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.

Country

Map of the traditional lands of the Badjari peoples of Western Queensland.

According to Norman Tindale, the Badjiri lands spanned some 4,100 square miles (11,000 km²), 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 the eastern side of Currawinya.

Language

Main article: Badjiri language

The Badjiri people spoke the Badjiri language, now extinct.Bowern, Claire (2001). "Karnic classification revisited". In J Simpson; et al. (eds.). Forty years on. Canberra Pacific Linguistics. pp. 245–260. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021.

Alternative names

• Baderi
• Bädjäri
• Badjedi
• Badjeri, Baddyeri
• Badjidi
• Byjerri
• Poidgerry

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 164

Sources

• Looker, W. H. (1887). "Mungalella Creek" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 276–278.
• Mathews, R. H. (1905). "Ethnological notes on the aboriginal tribes of Queensland" (PDF). Queensland Geographical Journal. 29: 49–75.
• Myles, F. W. (1886). "Thargominda, Bulloo River" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 36–41.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Badjiri (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2017.

External links

• Photographs of the Bidjara Repatriation Ceremony at the Augathella Yumba, April 2012, State Library of Queensland