The Tanganekald lay to the southeast of the Jarildekald[1] (aka Yaralde[2]) and occupied 750 square miles (1,900 km2), predominantly about the narrow coastal strip along Coorong.
Norman Tindale gives the following precise locations, based on detailed work with his informant, Clarence Long (Milerum), the last full blooded adult survivor of the Tangane.
[4]Law professor Irene Watson wrote in a 2019 article about the Maria massacre: "The ancient identity and name of the Milmendjeri, one of the Tanganekald peoples, belong to the Coorong.
"[2] A distinction was made between (a) teŋgi - the sandy grassed limestone slopes just back of the pandalapi (Coorong lagoon) where they fished and favoured for camping, as was the southern seaward side, the pariŋari, protected by the natunijuru, duned sandhills between them and the seashore (jurli) - and the inland mallee and swamps, known as lerami, which were good for hunting.
[13] According to Tanganekald belief, ancestral human-like beings, the Ŋurunderi and others, collectively referred to by the term maldawuli, were responsible, together with ŋaitje, (totemtotemic animals, consisting mostly of birds) for the creation of the landscape they now inhabit.
One story in this sequence, whose events are associated with a crater near McGrath Flat homestead, concerns an aged woman, Prupe,[a] and her sister Koromarange, both of the Marntandi clan.