page_title: Jawi people
section_title: Country
hierarchical_section_title: Jawi people / Country
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia
context_page_description: The Jawi people, also spelt Djaui, Djawi, and other alternative spellings, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Kimberley coast of Western Australia, who speak the Jawi dialect. They are sometimes grouped with the Bardi people and referred to as "Bardi Jawi", as the languages and culture are similar.
context_section_description: Jawi traditional lands encompass Sunday Island (Ewenu) (= Iwany) in the King Sound and the wider archipelago.
  Norman Tindale estimated that the traditional lands of the Jawi (Iwany-oon, meaning "Sunday Islanders") encompassed about 50 square miles (130 km²) of territory: including Sunday Island and Tohau-i (probably = Jawi), and extending to West Roe Island in the north and to Jackson Island (also called Jayirri or Tyra Island) in the west. However, there are problems with Tindale's estimates about territories in this region.
  Historical maps are vague about the ownership of islands in this area. 
  In 1972 the Jawi and Bardi community of One Arm Point was established on the Bardi mainland. 
  In 2005 and 2015 the Jawi and Bardi people obtained partial recognition of their collective native title claim.
caption: Traditional lands of Aboriginal tribes around Derby, WA
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