Due to their displacement in the colonisation process, which forced them into Roebourne, many speakers are Ngarluma people who have adopted Yindjibarndi.
It is located on the lower Hamersley Range plateau south of the Pialin at the junction of Portland Creek with the Fortescue River, east along a line formed by the edge of the scarp facing the eastern headwaters of Yule River; east along the Fortescue River to Marana Pool, about 10 miles west of Kudaidari; south to the clifflike north-facing scarp of the higher Hamersley Range plateau, roughly along a line from Mount Elvira east-southeast to Mount George.
[6] Traditionally, until the arrival of Europeans, the Yindjibarndi lived along the middle sector of the valley through which the Fortescue River runs, and the nearby uplands.
Under the agreement, Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi people remain the traditional owner representatives for the North West Shelf Venture area, which includes the Karratha Gas Plant.
[10] In 2022 the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) asked the Federal Court to rule on compensation, after attempts to negotiate an Indigenous land use agreement had stalled.