Rakaya
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The Rakkaia were an indigenous Australian people, from what is now Queensland.
Country
The Rakkaia are estimated by Norman Tindale to have had, within their tribal domains, some 2,200 square miles (5,700 km2) of territory, stretching westwards from Coorabulka as far as the Georgina River, and the eastern vicinity of Breadalbane.[1]
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Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 185.
- ^ Roth 1897, p. 41.
Sources
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 14 May 2024.
- Roth, W. E. (1897). Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (PDF). Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Rakkaia (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.