The Mudburra, also spelt Mudbara and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
Mudburra is one of the far eastern forms of the Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages.
Country The Mudburra people live in the thick scrub area near and west of the Murranji Track (the Ghost Road of the Drovers) and held in Tindale's estimation some of land, centered on the junction of the Armstrong RiverArmstrong River and the upper Victoria River at a place called Tjambutjambulani. Their northern reach ran as far as Top Springs, their frontier to the south lay at Cattle Creek. In an east–west axis, their land extended from near Newcastle Waters to the Camfield River.
Alternative names Madbara Moodburra, Mootburra Mudbara Mudbera Mudbra Mudbura Mudburra Mulpira (Iliaura exonym)
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See also Ngumpit, a name used by the Gurindji, Malngin, Bilinara, Mudburra and Ngarinyman peoples to refer to themselves as a group Wave Hill walk-off, in which Mudbara workers joined the Gurindji strike in 1967
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