Wakayan

The Wakaya are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory, whose traditional territory of some 39,000 square kilometres lay north-east and east of Tennant Creek, bordered by the Alyawarre, Kaytetye and Warlpiri. They gathered purslane seeds and threshed them inside stone circles to draw out their oily nutrients.

Their language, Wagaya, belonged to the Warluwarric (Ngarna) subgroup of the Pama-Nyungan family and had eastern and western dialects; frontier violence later drove many Wakaya from their country together with the Alyawarre.