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Kaniyang

Indigenous people of Western Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ61055296 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Kaneang are an indigenous Noongar people of the south west region of Western Australia.

Country

The Kaneang traditional lands enclosed some 4,800 square miles (12,000 km2) of territory. On the Upper Blackwood River. The eastern boundary was formed by the line that runs from Katanning, Tambellup, Cranbrook, and Tenterden. Kaneang lands took in Kojonup, Qualeup, Donnybrook, Greenbushes and Bridgetown. They camped around the headwaters of both the Warren and Frankland rivers and along the southern bank of the Collie River as far as Collie.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kaniyang” as indigenous people of Western Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 85-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kaniyang, Indigenous and people can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as indigenous people of Western Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q61055296. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kaniyang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.