{{distinguish|Aṉangu}} {{Short description|Indigenous people of Western Australia}} {{use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2018}} The '''Amangu''' are an indigenous [[Yamatji]] people of the [[Mid West (Western Australia)|mid-western region]] of [[Western Australia]].
==Language== {{See also|Nhanda 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,{{sfn|Foley|1865|pp=297–298}} and the other was gathered by the [[Colonial Secretary of Western Australia]] [[Roger Goldsworthy (colonial administrator)|Roger Goldsworthy]], and published by [[Edward Micklethwaite Curr|E. M. Curr]] two decades later.{{sfn|Goldsworthy|1886|pp=316–317}}
==Country== The Amangu's territory stretched over some {{convert|26,200|km2|mi2}}, centring on the area of [[Champion Bay]]. The northern boundary is around [[Chapman River]] and southern [[Geraldton]]. The southern boundary extends to [[Hill River (Western Australia)|Hill River]]. The inland extension was from the coast as far as the vicinity of [[Mullewa, Western Australia|Mullewa]], [[Morawa, Western Australia|Morawa]] and [[Carnamah, Western Australia|Carnamah]]. The southeastern frontier is not clear, but is believed to have run down to the vicinity just north of [[Moora, Western Australia|Moora]].{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=239}}
==History== Excavation at Yellabidde Cave near Leeman indicate that the Amangu territory was occupied as early as 23,000 [[Before Present|BP]], putting back the accepted date for habitation of the Perth-Geraldton coast by some 15,000 years.{{sfn|Yellabidde|2016}}
==Some words== * {{lang|nha|agootha}} (mother){{efn|Foley lists {{lang|nha|amma}} for father, and {{lang|nha|aggo}} for mother. {{harv|Foley|1865|p=297}}}} * {{lang|nha|ammatha}} (father) * {{lang|nha|kilire}},{{sfn|Goldsworthy|1886|p=316}} {{lang|nha|kullali}}{{sfn|Foley|1865|p=297}} (emu) * {{lang|nha|mini}} (white man){{sfn|Goldsworthy|1886|p=316}} * {{lang|nha|yellabidde}} (emu){{sfn|Yellabidde|2016}}
==Notes== {{notelist}}
===Citations=== {{Reflist|20em}}
==Sources== {{refbegin}} *{{Cite news| title = Aboriginal people inhabited WA's mid-west coast much earlier than previously thought | publisher = [[University of Western Australia]] | url = http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201611049179/aboriginal-people-inhabited-was-mid-west-coast-much-earlier-previously-thought | date = 4 November 2016 | ref = {{harvid|Yellabidde|2016}} }} *{{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia | publisher = [[Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies|AIATSIS]] | url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia | ref = {{harvid|AIATSIS}} }} *{{Cite journal | title = Vocabulary of the Champion Bay Tribe | last = Foley | first = R. J. | editor-last = Oldfield | editor-first = Augustus | editor-link = Augustus Frederick Oldfield | journal = [[Ethnological Society of London|Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London]] | via = [[Internet Archive]] | year = 1865 | volume = 3 | pages = 297–298 | url = https://archive.org/details/jstor-3014165 | format = PDF }} *{{Cite book| chapter = The Champion Bay tribe | last = Goldsworthy | first = Roger Tuckfield | year = 1886 | author-link = Roger Goldsworthy (colonial administrator) | title = The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent | editor-last = Curr | editor-first = Edward Micklethwaite | editor-link = Edward Micklethwaite Curr | publisher = J. Ferres | location = Melbourne | volume = 1 | pages = 316–317 | chapter-url = https://archive.org/download/australianracei01currgoog/australianracei01currgoog.pdf | via = [[Internet Archive]] }} *{{Cite journal | title = On the Aborigines of Australia | last = Oldfield | first = Augustus | editor-last = Oldfield | editor-first = Augustus | editor-link = Augustus Frederick Oldfield | journal = [[Ethnological Society of London|Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London]] | via = [[Internet Archive]] | year = 1865 | volume = 3 | pages = 215–298 | url = https://archive.org/details/jstor-3014165 | format = PDF | doi = 10.2307/3014165 | jstor = 3014165 }} *{{Cite web| title = Tindale Tribal Boundaries | publisher = [[Department of Aboriginal Affairs (Western Australia)|Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia]] | url = https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160308145114/https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf | date = September 2016 | access-date = 1 December 2017 | archive-date = 8 March 2016 | ref = {{harvid|TTB|2016}} }} *{{Cite book| chapter = Amangu (WA) | last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974 | author-link = Norman Tindale | title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names | publisher = [[Australian National University]] | chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/amangu.htm | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/amangu.htm | archive-date = 20 March 2020 | isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6 }} {{refend}}
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