Laia people

The Laia were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Laia had 2,100 square miles (5,400 km²) of territory, ranging over the area to the north of the Palmer River, and east as far as the Great Dividing Range. Their western limits lay around the headwaters of the Alice River.[1]

Alternative names

• Koko Laia.
• Kokowara. (Kuku Yalanji exonym, signifying 'bad speech')
• Coo-coo-warra.[1]

Notes

Citations

1. Tindale 1974, p. 179.

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
• Dutton, H. S. (1901). "Linguistics, Goa. Miorli. Coo-coowarra". Science of Man. Sydney. 3 (12): 208–209.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Sharp, R. Lauriston (March 1939). "Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia". Oceania. 9 (3): 254–275. JSTOR 40327744.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Laia (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)