Jadira
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Jadira refers to a people and territory believed by Norman Tindale to inhabit an area in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The status of Jadira in the sense defined by Tindale has been recently questioned by Paul Burke.
Tindale described the tribal boundaries of some 3,600 square miles (9,300 km2) of land belonging to this "Jadira" people, in the following terms.3,600 sq. The Jadira occupied the areas about the middle sections of the Cane and Robe rivers, running south of Mount Minnie, and as far north as the Fortescue River. Their eastern frontier putatively fell short of the western scarp of the higher plateau of the Hamersley Ranges.[1]
Tindale also added a list of alternative names for these Jadira:
- Kawarindjari, Kawarandjari
- Kawarandari
- Kawarindjara
- Kauarind'arri, Kauarndhari
- Garindjari
These terms represented Ngarluma exonyms applied to the Jadira, and bore the sense of "belonging to the west".[1]
The only other information available to Tindale led him to suggest that some of the Jadira, a non-circumcising tribe, with the onset of European colonization, shifted eastwards to Ashburton Downs Station, while a second group moved to the mouth of the Fortescue River where they were assimilated into the Martuthinira. Traditionally, he added, their access to the coastal waters lay through Nhuwala (which Tindale spelt Noala) territory, between the Cane and Robe rivers,[1] a practice Tindale described as "trespassing".[2]