Dynamics of descent in determining traditional owner (misconceptions relating to the patriline); contact history of the area in terms of competition for natural resources attitudes toward indigenous population, Stuart and Spencer and Gillen expeditions; overland telegraph, mining (incl. gold) and pastoral interests, growth of racism and Aboriginal resistance, living conditions, wages, pensions, strikes on pastoral properties, history of reserves, government policy, legal/police discrimination; traditional/contemporary conceptions of being Waramunga (parameters of identity, alliances with neighbouring groups); analysis of traditional and present ceremonial life; Winkarra - Dreaming, Dreaming tracks, totemism, association of conception with the land through ancestral forces, sacred knowledge and sanctions, ritual objects and their types and their importance in establishing land claim; Mechanisms, nature of land tenure (incl. moieties - their relationship to land, recruitment, mutual interdependence and division of ritual responsibility and local descent group; identification of claim area incl. anthropological/historical evidence, analysis of present camp locations (residential patterns, constraints, movement); lists claimants, Winkarra affiliations, sites.
