The Kunapa are a clan[1]ofIndigenous Australian families of Central Australia who traditionally lived to the north of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory.[2]
The Kunapa's traditional lands lie on the Western Barkly Tablelands of Central Australia, and include territory in the areas of the Banka Banka, Brunchilly, and Elroy Downs pastoral leases.[3]
The Kunapa were alienated from their original homelands with the development of pastoralism. and subsequently were concentrated in towns like Tennant Creek. In the last decades two Kunapa communities, the Ngurrara and Kurnturlpara, have been re-establishing outstations in houses they had once owned in the western areas of Barkly Tableland.[1]
The mining corporation, OM Manganese, was fined $150,000 in 2013 for having desecrated a site known as "Two Women Sitting Down"[4] at the Bootu Creek Manganese Mine. The Kunapa are one of the traditional custodians of this area.[a]
Kunapa land claims are represented by the Manungurra Aboriginal Corporation.