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{{see also|Nokaan language}}
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The '''Nokaan''' or '''Nhugarn''' were an [[Aboriginal Australian]] people of the [[Mid West (Western Australia)|Mid West]] region of [[Western Australia]].
==Country==
The Nokaan dwelt on the plateau west of the [[Murchison River (Western Australia)|Murchison]], at least as far south from Curbur to Yallalong and Coolcalaya. Their inland extension to the south went close to [[Northampton, Western Australia|Northampton]]. According to [[Norman Tindale]], who estimated their lands as embracing about {{convert|4,700|mi2|km2}} of territory, they pushed into the coastal strip only relatively recently after the onset of contact with white settlers.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=254}}
Running clock-wise from north, their neighbours were the [[Malgana]], [[Watjarri]], [[Widi tribe|Widi]], then the [[Amangu]] south, and the [[Nanda tribe|Nanda]] directly east.
==Alternative names==
* ''Noga:n'' ([[Malgana]] [[exonym]])
* ''Nagadja'' (easterners, an [[Amangu]] exonym for circumcised tribes lying to the east of [[Geraldton]])
* ''Nagodja'' (a [[Watjarri]] exonym)
* ''Ngadja''
* ''Akadja, Akady, Akadi''
* ''Wiludjanu'' (another Watjarri language-denoting exonym, signifying 'western talk'){{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=254}}
==Notes==
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===Citations===
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==Sources==
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*{{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia
| date = 14 May 2024
| publisher = [[AIATSIS]]
| url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia
| ref = {{harvid|AIATSIS}}
}}
*{{Cite web| title = Tindale Tribal Boundaries
| publisher = [[Department of Aboriginal Affairs (Western Australia)|Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia]]
| url = https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf
| date = September 2016
| ref = {{harvid|TTB|2016}}
}}
*{{Cite book| chapter = Nokaan (WA)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| year = 1974
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
| publisher = [[Australian National University Press]]
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nokaan.htm
| archive-date = 20 March 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/nokaan.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
*{{Cite journal | title = A Short Vocabulary of Aboriginal Words, Collected at Nichol Bay
| last = Walcott | first = P.
| journal = [[Ethnological Society of London|Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London]]
| year = 1863 | volume = 2 | pages = 249–251
| doi = 10.2307/3014322 | jstor = 3014322
}}
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[[Category:Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia]]
[[Category:Mid West (Western Australia)]]