Ngarti


The Ngarti, also spelled Ngardi, are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Name

took the term Ngardi to refer, not to a distinct tribe, but to a branch of the Warlpiri, a point contested by Norman Tindale, who maintained they were distinct.

Country

In Norman Tindale's calculations, the Ngarti's tribal territory stretched over approximately, covering the sandhill country west of the Tanami track, extending from Chilla Well, the Granites, and Gardiner Range over the border into Western Australia at Ima Ima. They were present at Sturt Creek, and the Pallottine Mission area at Balgo Hill. Their southern extension, he adds, went as far as across the mulga scrubland to Milidjipi and Tekkari north of Lake Mackay.

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