Mitaka people

The Mitaka (alternatively Mithaka) were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Country

In Norman Tindale's calculations, the Mitaka, a Channel Country people around Lake Machattie, are assigned a tribal domain of some 4,800 square miles (12,000 km²) from Durrie in the south northwards as far as Glengyle. Their eastern limits ran close to Monkira, while the western frontier was at Kalidawarry.^[1]

Alternative names

Mithaka
Mittaka
Mittuka
Marunga
Mit:aka (putatively a Dieri exonym)
Marrala/ Marranda (language names)
Murunuta
Midaga^[2]

Notes

Citations

^ Tindale 1974, p. 181.
^ Tindale 1974, p. 182.

Sources

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