Not to be confused with
Aṉangu .
Indigenous people of Western Australia
The Amangu are an indigenous Yamatji people of the mid-western region of Western Australia .
Language
Two early glossaries of some words from the Champion Bay Amangu were collected. One, by R. J. Foley, was published in a work by Augustus Oldfield in 1865, and the other was gathered by the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia Roger Goldsworthy , and published by E. M. Curr two decades later.
Country
The Amangu's territory stretched over some 10,100 square miles (26,000 km2 ), centring on the area of Champion Bay , and the Chapman River . The northern boundary lay near Geraldton and the Hill River . The inland extension was from the coast as far as the vicinity of Mullewa , Morawa and Carnamah . The southern frontier is not clear, but is believed to have run down to the vicinity just north of Moora .
History
Excavation at Yellabidde Cave near Leeman indicate that the Amangu territory was occupied as early as 23,000 BP , putting back the accepted date for habitation of the Perth-Geraldton coast by some 15,000 years.
Some words
agootha [ a] ammatha kilire kullali mini yellabidde
Notes
^ Foley lists amma aggo Foley 1865 , p. 297)
Citations
Sources
"Aboriginal people inhabited WA's mid-west coast much earlier than previously thought" . University of Western Australia . 4 November 2016."AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia" . AIATSIS .Foley, R. J. (1865). Oldfield, Augustus (ed.). "Vocabulary of the Champion Bay Tribe" (PDF) . Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 3 : 297– 298 – via Internet Archive . Goldsworthy, Roger Tuckfield (1886). "The Champion Bay tribe" (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. 1. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 316– 317 – via Internet Archive .Oldfield, Augustus (1865). Oldfield, Augustus (ed.). "On the Aborigines of Australia" (PDF) . Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 3 : 215– 298. doi :10.2307/3014165 . JSTOR 3014165 – via Internet Archive . "Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF) . Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia . September 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2017 .Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Amangu (WA)" . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . Australian National University . ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6 the original on 20 March 2020.
