The Yeidji, also spelt Yiiji and other variants,[1] commonly known as Gwini or Kwini,[2] are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley area of Western Australia, who also self-identify as Balanggarra.
Norman Tindale, writing in 1974, maintained that Gwini was a directional term meaning "easterners" used by inlanders.
[b] The Yeidji, according to Norman Tindale, controlled some 1,000 square miles (2,600 km2) of tribal territory, running from the coast of Cambridge Gulf along the Forrest River as far as the Milligan ranges.
[6] Today they are the traditional owners by succession of Sir Graham Moore Island, off the Kimberley coast.
Oral histories and archaeological excavations reveal evidence of interactions with Makassan traders from the 18th century onwards.