Rarrdjali Aboriginal Corporation was formed by Yawuru people in 2001 to help improve their lives, culturally and economically, through a CDEP program funded by Atsic.

  The name Rarrdjali comes from Rarrdjali Point, situated about 50 kilometres north of Broome near Lake Eda. This traditional Yawuru land is still abundant in wildlife today.

     A few hundred Yawuru people live around the Broome area. Their closest traditional neighbours are the Nyikina people, whose language is closely related to Yawuru, as is Nyul-Nyul, another indigenous language of the area.

      The Yawuru language is still spoken by about a dozen people, most of them living in the Dampier Peninsula region, near Broome in the West Kimberley. It is being taught again to youngsters at Cable Beach High School by Doris Edgar.

      The Yawuru people want to cooperate with their indigenous neighbours in the present renaissance of Australian Indigenous culture, and hope that this web-site will be a step in that direction.