Kalkatungu

Kalkadoon
Total population
several hundred
(less than 1% of the Australian population, about 1% of the Aboriginal population)
Regions with significant populations
Australia
(Queensland)
Languages
English, formerly Kalkatungu language
Religion
Aboriginal mythology

The Kalkadoon (properly Kalkatungu) are descendants of an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the Mount Isa region of Queensland. Their ancestral tribe has been called "the elite of the Aboriginal warriors of Queensland".[1] In 1884 they were massacred at "Battle Mountain" by settlers and police.

  1. ^ Lack 1959, p. 187.