Arabana people

[2] The neighbouring tribes were the Kokata to the west, with the frontier between the two marked by the scarp of the western tableland near Coober Pedy.

[2] In 2012, the National Native Title Tribunal issued a consent determination in the matter of Dodd versus the State of South Australia.

[7] The Arabana were interviewed at Old Peake Station[8] and Thantyiwanparda in the nearby gidgee scrub[9] by Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis James Gillen over a ten-day period[10] in August 1903 for a specific purpose.

Their earlier work had argued that the truly "primitive" nature of the Arrernte was indicated by the fact that their totemic identities came from the spirit responsible for making individuals' mothers pregnant.

[9] Today, cross-cultural research collaborations are building on Arabana traditional knowledge and colonial and pastoral experiences to develop new ways of approaching modeling climate change.