# Yapurarra > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yapurarra > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yapurarra.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapurarra > Source revision: 1333092192 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description |Aboriginal people from the Pilbara, Western Australia}} {{use dmy dates|date=February 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2018}} The '''Yapurarra''' or '''Jaburara''', also rendered '''Yaburara''', are an [Aboriginal Australian](/source/Aboriginal_Australian) people whose traditional lands are in the [Pilbara](/source/Pilbara) region of [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia) and the [Dampier Archipelago](/source/Dampier_Archipelago). ==Language== The [Jaburara language](/source/Jaburara_language) (Yaburarra) is thought to have been similar to [Ngarluma](/source/Ngarluma_language), part of the [Ngayarda languages](/source/Ngayarda_languages).{{sfn|Thieberger|1993|p=100}} ==Country== The Jaburara owned some {{convert|200|mi2|km2|order=flip}} of territory from around [Dampier](/source/Dampier%2C_Western_Australia), [Burrup](/source/Burrup_Peninsula), Nichol Bay and the peninsula northwards to the [Dolphin](/source/Dolphin_Island_(Western_Australia)) and Legendre islands.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=242}} ==Early contact== During one of [Phillip Parker King](/source/Phillip_Parker_King)'s voyages on {{HMS|Mermaid|1817|6}} to survey the Australian coast, an attempt was made to communicate in February 1817 with members of the tribe, three of whom had been sighted off-shore floating on a log in the vicinity of present-day [Karratha](/source/Karratha%2C_Western_Australia). The intermediary used was the ship's interpreter [Bungaree](/source/Bungaree), who, speaking the [Broken Bay](/source/Broken_Bay) [Dharug language](/source/Dharug_language) could not understand them, but managed to calm their anxieties by undressing and showing he wore [ritual scars](/source/Scarification).{{sfn|Shellam|2015|pp=89–91}} ==Resistance and extinction== The Jaburara, together with other local tribes such as the [Ngarluma](/source/Ngarluma) and [Mardu-Dunera](/source/Martuthunira_language), fought against the [colonization of their lands by white settlers](/source/History_of_Australia_(1788%E2%80%931850)).{{sfn|Stannage|1981|p=99}} According to an American whaler at the time, the law that accompanied settlement in their region could be summed up as "a word and a blow: the blow, which is generally fatal, coming first".{{sfn|Gibbs|2010|p=28}} In 1868, near the present-day township of [Roebourne](/source/Roebourne), in an area known in the local language as [Murujuga](/source/Murujuga), two policemen and a native tracker had been killed. The suspects, three Jaburara men, were duly caught and sentenced to imprisonment. Two parties, made up of [north coast pearlers](/source/Pearling_in_Western_Australia) and [settler pastoralists](/source/Pastoralism), had been given permission by the district authority to apply lethal force "with discretion and judgement",{{sfn|Knafla|2016|p=79}} and they attacked Jaburara encampments in a pincer movement. In what is now known as the [Flying Foam massacre](/source/Flying_Foam_massacre) it has been estimated that up to 60 Jaburara were killed.{{sfn|Knafla|2016|p=79}} In one camp alone, some 15 were killed.{{sfn|Gara|1983|pp=85–94}} Following the [La Grange massacre](/source/La_Grange_expedition), this episode constitutes the second known example of the use of massacre to forcibly remove an indigenous north western population.{{sfn|Walsh|2015}} One small "family" was recorded in the first half of the 20th century as still surviving{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=242}} but the massacre effectively cut off the tribe's connections to the islands.{{sfn|Veth|2015}} ==Heritage== The Jaburara heritage is attested by rock quarries, extensive archaic [petroglyph](/source/petroglyph)s, grindstones used by native women to make flour from native seeds, nomadic camps, and [midden](/source/midden)s to be found along the Jaburara Heritage Trail, which winds through an area containing some of the most extensive remains of [ancient Aboriginal](/source/Indigenous_Australian_art) [rock art](/source/rock_art), some dating back 25,000 years.{{sfn|Van Driesum|2002|p=343}}{{sfn|Flood|1999|pp=66–67}} ==Alternative names== * ''Jaburara-ngaluma'' (northern Ngaluma) * ''Jaburrara-ngarluma'' * ''Madoitja'' (perhaps){{sfn|Tindale|1974}} ==Notes and references== {{notelist}} ===Notes=== {{Reflist|20em}} ===References=== {{refbegin|30em}} *{{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia | date = 10 November 2022 | publisher = [AIATSIS](/source/AIATSIS) | url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia | ref = {{harvid|AIATSIS}} }} *{{Cite web | title = Tindale Tribal Boundaries | publisher = [Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia](/source/Department_of_Aboriginal_Affairs_(Western_Australia)) | url = https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf | date = September 2016 | ref = {{harvid|TTB|2016}} | access-date = 1 December 2017 | archive-date = 8 March 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160308145114/https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf | url-status = dead }} *{{Cite book| title = The Riches of Ancient Australia: An Indispensable Guide for Exploring Prehistoric Australia | edition = 3rd | last = Flood | first = Josephine | year = 1999 | publisher = [University of Queensland Press](/source/University_of_Queensland_Press) | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=k9x8AAAAMAAJ | isbn = 978-0-702-23083-7 }} *{{Cite book| chapter = The Flying Foam Massacre: An Incident on the North-west Frontier | last = Gara | first = Tom | year = 1983 | title = Archaeology at ANZAAS | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = Moya | publisher = [Western Australian Museum](/source/Western_Australian_Museum) | pages = 86–94 }} *{{Cite book| title = The Shore Whalers of Western Australia: Historical Archaeology of a Maritime Frontier | last = Gibbs | first = Martin | year = 2010 | publisher = [Sydney University Press](/source/Sydney_University_Press) | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wwYDObZmJDAC&pg=PA28 | isbn = 978-0-855-64181-8 }} *{{Cite book| chapter = Policing Aboriginal People on the Settler Frontier | last = Knafla | first = Louis A. | year = 2016 | title = Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada | editor1-last = Nettelbeck | editor1-first = Amanda | editor2-last = Smandych | editor2-first = Russell | editor3-last = Knafla | editor3-first = Louis A. | publisher = [University of British Columbia Press](/source/University_of_British_Columbia) | pages = 62–83 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fFeTCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA79 | isbn = 978-0-774-83091-1 }} *{{Cite book| chapter = Mediating Encounters through bodies and talk | last = Shellam | first = Tiffany | year = 2015 | title = Indigenous Intermediaries: New perspectives on exploration archives | editor1-last = Konishi | editor1-first = Shino | editor2-last = Nugent | editor2-first = Maria | editor3-last = Shellam | editor3-first = Tiffany | publisher = [Australian National University Press](/source/Australian_National_University_Press) | pages = 85–102 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gXpQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA90 | isbn = 978-1-925-02277-3 }} *{{Cite book| title = A New History of Western Australia | last = Stannage | first = Tom | author-link = Tom Stannage | year = 1981 | publisher = [University of West Australia Press](/source/University_of_Western_Australia) | isbn = 978-0-855-64181-8 }} *{{Cite book| title = Indigenous People and the Pilbara Mining Boom: A Baseline for Regional Participation | last1 = Taylor | first1 = John | last2 = Scambary | first2 = B. | year = 2005 | publisher = [Australian National University Press](/source/Australian_National_University_Press) | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ePCm5gJnbgEC&pg=PA46 | isbn = 978-1-920-94254-0 }} *{{Cite book| title = Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region | last = Thieberger | first = Nicholas | year = 1993 | publisher = [Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies](/source/Australian_National_University) }} *{{Cite book| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names | last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | author-link = Norman Tindale | year = 1974 | publisher = Australian National University Press | url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/jaburara.htm | archive-date = 20 March 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/jaburara.htm | isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6 }} *{{Cite book| title = Outback Australia | last = Van Driesum | first = Rob | year = 2002 | publisher = [Lonely Planet](/source/Lonely_Planet) | isbn = 9781864501872 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8-jO2cfz-VwC&pg=PA343 }} *{{Cite journal | title = Exile in the Kingdom: The Struggle for Cultural Heritage in the Pilbara | last = Veth | first = Peter | journal = [Cultural Anthropology](/source/Cultural_Anthropology_(journal)) | url = http://fara.com.au/node/28 | date = 17 December 2015 | archive-date = 30 May 2016 | access-date = 6 October 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160530011053/http://fara.com.au/node/28 | url-status = dead }} *{{Cite journal | title = A History of Forced Removal: Diminishing Returns in the Northwest of Western Australia | last = Walsh | first = Aileen | journal = [Cultural Anthropology](/source/Cultural_Anthropology_(journal)) | url = https://culanth.org/fieldsights/763-a-history-of-forced-removal-diminishing-returns-in-the-northwest-of-western-australia | date = 17 December 2015 | archive-date = 9 October 2016 | access-date = 6 October 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161009202033/https://culanth.org/fieldsights/763-a-history-of-forced-removal-diminishing-returns-in-the-northwest-of-western-australia | url-status = dead }} {{refend}} ==External links== *{{cite web|url=https://www.murujuga.org.au/about/ |website=Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC)|title=About}} {{Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia}} {{Authority control}} Category:Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia Category:Extinct languages of Western Australia Category:History of Indigenous Australians Category:History of Western Australia Category:Ngayarda languages Category:Pilbara --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Yapurarra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapurarra) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapurarra?action=history)). 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