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The Dadi Dadi or Tatitati are an Australian Aboriginal tribe who's traditional lands are located along the southern banks of the Murray River in Victoria Australia. They were, Norman Tindale noted "from Euston to 15 miles (25 km.) above the Murrumbidgee junction chiefly on southern bank of the Murray River but extending north to Benanee."
They spoke a nearly extinct language of the Lower Murray group of the Pama-Nyungan language family.[1][2] During the 1960s and 1970s samples of the Language were recorded.[3]
The language is related to Yita Yita[4] and possesses two dialects Mallee Cliffs and Mildura.
During colonial times bodies were taken from five burial sites along the New South Wales side of the Murray River[5] and are now part of the Murray Black Collection The repatriation of these bodies is now being sought, by tribal groups.
Charles Sturt encountered the Dadi Dadi along the Murrumbidgee in the 1830s.[6]
References
- ^ Dadi Dadi Languages, Australia.
- ^ Sound recordings collected by L. A. Hercus, 1965-1967. (01 August, 2011.)
- ^ Endangered local languages come to life through linguist’s work with community.
- ^ L Hercus, aboriginal history 1989 13:1 44 - ANU Press.
- ^ Jordi Rivera Prince, Can the Repatriation of the Murray Black Collection be Considered an Apology? Colonial Institutional Culpability in the Indigenous Australian Fight for Decolonization, In Situ 2015 vol1, 5.p11
- ^ Horton, David, Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia;1994, Vol. 1, p251