Yalata
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Yalata is an Aboriginal community located 200 kilometres west of Ceduna on the Great Australian Bight in South Australia. The community is mainly comprised of Anangu who lived in the spinifex country far to the north around Ooldea prior to their forcible removal to Yalata in 1952. In the 1950s areas around Maralinga and Emu were used for Atomic Testing by the British Government of the day. Around this time the Australian Government resumed much Anangu land to be used for the Woomera Rocket testing Range. As a result Anangu were moved to Ooldea in the first instance then later moved to the Yalata site. The Maralinga Tjarutja native title land was handed back to the Anangu under legislation passed by both houses of the South Australian Parliament in December 1984 and proclaimed in January 1985. The Yalata Aboriginal lands cover 458,000 hectares and span approximately 150kms of the Eyre Highway. Inland Anangu resettled on the land in 1995 and forming a community at Oak Valley. Regular movement of Anangu between Yalata and Oak Valley occurs.
Yalata Roadhouse, 200kms west of Ceduna, is operated by Yalata Aboriginal Community Incorporated
Anangu regard themselves as a Southern Anangu people and speak a Southern dialect of the Pitjantjatjara language.[1]
The lands of the Yalata bear their own name. A portion of these lands in South Australia's remote west, comprises Yalata, one of the four local government areas of South Australia classified as an Aboriginal Council (AC). The main settlement in this government area is also named Yalata (see Yalata, South Australia).
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- ^ Yalata Land Management. Retrieved on 2006-05-18.
