Meintangk people

The Meintangk are an indigenous Australian people, often classified as a subgroup of the Ngarrindjeri.

Country

Meintangk land extended across an estimated 1,500 sq. miles. It stretched from Lacepede Bay, northwards some 12 miles (19 km) from Kingston to the Granite Rock. To the south its coastal boundaries lay on Cape Jaffa and inland eastwards to Lucindale, Blackford, Keilira, and Naracoorte. The inland territory from Lake Hawdon to Mosquito Creek also formed part of their land.[1]

People

The Meintangk comprised at least 7 hordes.[1] Among these were the Paintjunga who were located at Penola.[1]

Notable people

• Irene Watson, Professor of Law at University of South Australia Business School, is of mixed Meintangk and Tanganekald descent,[2] and has written a book on the history of aboriginal peoples in the southeast.[3]

Alternative names

• Painbali (This was the exonym used of the Meintangk by the Tanganekald).
• Paintjunga
• Pinchunga, Pinejunga
• Mootatunga
• Wepulprap (a Tanganekald term, signifying 'southern people').[1]

Notes and references

Explanatory notes

Notes

1. Tindale 1974.
2. Watson 2014, p. 75.
3. Watson 2002.

References

• Fort, Carol (2005). 'Doing' history and 'Understanding' Cultural Landscapes:Cutting Through South Australia's Woakwine Range (PDF). pp. 1–17.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Meintangk (SA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Watson, Irene (2002). Looking at You, Looking at Me: An Aboriginal History of the South East vol.1. Nairne. ISBN 0958061300.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Watson, Irene (2014). Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-93837-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)