Titjikala, also known as Tapatjatjaka and formerly known as "Maryvale" (after the cattle station of the same name) is an Aboriginal community in the south of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Titjikala is situated in the Simpson Desert, which occupies much of the southern portion of the Northern Territory.

Chambers Pillar is a spectacular landmark, a multi-coloured rock column some 40 km (25 mi) away from the site.

Median weekly income was $276, some $70–80 more than other Aboriginal communities but still far short of larger white settlements.

Tapatjatjaka Community, on their website, gives the following history: From the 1940s onwards families came to the Maryvale Station to work as stockmen and as domestic helpers.

Aboriginal people started settling in the area in the 1950s, when a mission truck visited every six weeks.

Children and women would travel back and forwards most of the day collecting water from the well and carrying it to the humpy area.

At this time the station laid piping from a good bore with the help of the Aboriginal people to provide a tap near the new buildings.

[4]Titjikala was visited on 28 June 2007 by one of the Howard Commonwealth Government's "scoping teams" (comprising federal bureaucrats, social / health workers, police and soldiers), sent to enforce a "crackdown" on sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities.

Gunya Titjikala is unique in being funded through a private loan by Macquarie Bank executive Bill Moss, who provided $400,000 to start operations.

[12] The Australian newspaper reported on 9 October 2007 that Gunya had suspended operations due to the cancellation of the Community Development Employment Program as part of the Howard Government's Northern Territory National Emergency Response interventions in the Northern Territory.