title: Kuku-Warra
text: # Kuku-Warra
  
  The Kokowara were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
  
  ## Name
  
  The ethnonym, applied to them by other tribes, namely Kokowara, means 'rough speech'. Their autonym, or word for themselves, had not been ascertained as of 1974.
  
  ## Country
  
  According to Norman Tindale, the Kokowara had some 1,800 square miles (4,700 $km^2)$ of tribal land on the Normanby River, extending south from Lakefield to Laura and the Laura River. Their central camping area was at a place called Daidan on the Deighton River.
  
  ## Alternative names
  
  * Kookawarra
  * Coo-oo-warra
  * Gugu-Warra
  * Laura-Deighton tribe
  