Yiiji

The Yiiji, also spelt Yeidji, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, closely bound up with the people called Gwini or Kwini; the groups around the Forrest River are often treated as one people, which also includes the Miwa. Their speech, also called Yiiji, is a dialect of Wunambal within the Worrorran family.

Their territory covered about 2,600 square kilometres between Cambridge Gulf and the Milligan ranges. From the eighteenth century they were drawn into the Makassan trepang trade: Makassan visitors, whose landfalls on the Kimberley coast began between 1669 and 1763, exchanged dugout canoes and trade goods for the sea cucumber cured on their beaches.