Mudburra

 ( Aboriginal Peoples Of The Northern Territory ) 

The Mudburra, also spelt Mudbara and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Language Mudbura language is one of the far eastern forms of the Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages.

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Country The Mudburra people live in the thick scrub area near and west of the Stock route and held in Norman Tindale's estimation some of land, centered on the junction of the Armstrong River Armstrong River and the upper Victoria River at a place called Tjambutjambulani. Their northern reach ran as far as Top Springs, their frontier to the south lay at Cattle Creek. In an east–west axis, their land extended from near Newcastle Waters to the Camfield Station.

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Alternative names

• Madbara
• Moodburra, Mootburra
• Mudbara
• Mudbera
• Mudbra
• Mudbura
• Mudburra
• Mulpira (Alyawarre exonym)

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See also

• Ngumpit, a name used by the Gurindji people, Malngin, Bilinara, Mudburra and Ngarinyman peoples to refer to themselves as a group
• Wave Hill walk-off, in which Mudbara workers joined the Gurindji strike in 1967

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Citations

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Sources

• (2025). 9781614512745, Walter de Gruyter. . ISBN 9781614512745
• Norman Barnett Tindale (1974). 9780708107416, Australian National University. ISBN 9780708107416

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