Kalaamayan

The Kalaamaya, recorded as the Kalamaia or Kalamai, are an Aboriginal people of the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance country of inland Western Australia. Their lands extended over some 88,000 square kilometres, from Bullabulling in the east to Lake Moore in the west, and from Youanmi in the north down to Mount Holland.

Groups remembered as the Kaprun, Jungaa and Jungal were Kalaamaya bands, and Takalako was the name given them by their Njakinjaki neighbours. They were among the eastern tribes who practised circumcision as the heart of male initiation, and looked down on the south-western peoples who lacked the rite.

Their language belongs to the Pama-Nyungan family. When the Swan River Colony was founded in 1829 their inland country still lay beyond the frontier, and gold prospectors only reached it in the later nineteenth century.