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Bidyadanga, also known as La Grange, is the largest Aboriginal community in Western Australia, with a population of approximately 750 residents.It is located 180 kilometres (110 mi) south of Broome and 1,590 kilometres (990 mi) from the state capital Perth, in the Kimberley region.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are built communities for indigenous Australians within their ancestral country; the communities comprise families with continuous links to country that extend before the European settlement of ...
The site of the community that is now Mount Margaret was founded as a mission by the United Aborigines Mission in 1921, and soon drew Aboriginal people from surrounding areas. [1] [2] By 1928, after the mission became the central rationing station for the whole district, the WA Government moved the Mount Margaret mission further east. [3]
The island became a focal point for all the communities in the area: people were born, married and died in this place and every one of them is remembered by today's Aboriginal community. [1] For the Aboriginal people of today who have an association to the island, it holds a special place as a symbol of their changing place in history and their ...
Indigenous communities by usual population (left) and by remoteness area (right) based on ABS data for 2006 [1] Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are communities for Aboriginal Australians within their ancestral country ; the communities comprise families with continuous links to country that extend before the European settlement of ...
The name Ieramugadu, also spelt Yirramagardu, which is used by the local Aboriginal community to describe Roebourne, is the Ngarluma word [3] for a native fig species that is found in and around the area. [4] The fig is a food source for traditional owners. Archaeological evidence indicates human occupation of the area for over 40,000 years.
According to R. H. W. Reece in his book "Aborigines and Colonists," local tradition states that Nunn's party of Mounted Police was involved in at least one more large melee with local Aboriginal people before the party left the Plains. Major Nunn's Campaign (as it was known in the district) did not prevent further racial conflict.
Electricity supply is currently regularised and now managed by Horizon Power, under the state government-funded Aboriginal and Remote Community Power Station Project. The power station has four 300kW Scania diesel engines and a 200kW solar photovoltaic array (fixed). It uses battery storage to smooth any fluctuations in the solar output.