Talk:Yeidji

Balanggarra ...
Is this a more modern name for these people, some kind of umbrella term, or ... what's going on? See page 3 of this, this native title claim, etc. I've noticed this term used a lot for sources from the area (e.g. this ABC News story and this one from the Guardian. If somebody could help resolve this confusion, that would be great. Graham 87 17:38, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Pinging Nishidani as the article's creator. Graham 87 17:39, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Tindale and early writers drew on distinctions that once existed. Many distinct groups decimated by colonialism lost their distinct fully 'tribal' cultures, traditionalist identities and languages, amd their descendents now have recreated regional mega-identities to represent themselves particularly as demanded by the white man's land laws. It's all very complex and tabu-fraught. I know of one mention of a Balanggarra group going back to the 1840s in that area, but most of the intervening documentation refers to the other names by which their various forefathers were known as. We can't rewrite over the old names with these new ones for the simple reason that they refer to different historical realities. In any case, what is decisive here is what AIATSIS calls them, and their term in Yiiji, a variant of Yeidji.Nishidani (talk) 21:03, 12 November 2020 (UTC)