Alyawarre

Location of Alyawarre (purple) in the Northern Territory

Alyawarre are an Indigenous Australian tribe or people from the Northern Territory. The name has also been spelt Alyawarra, Alyawarr and Iliaura.

In 1980 they lodged a land claim with the Wakaya people, which was handed back to them on 22 October 1992. The size of the land was 2065 square km. [link]

The Utopia community, 250km north east of Alice Springs was set up in 1927 which is partly on Alyawarre land, also on land of the Anmatyerre. [link] The famous (and most highly paid) Aboriginal painter, Emily Kngwarreye, an Anmatyerre woman, came from this community.

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