Luthigh
By Norman Tindale's reckoning, the Luthigh (a.k.a. Lotiga, Okara, and Oharra) occupied about 1,000 square kilometres around the upper Dulhunty River and McDonnell Telegraph Station between the Paterson and Moreton stations on the Cape York Telegraph Line. They spoke a dialect of an extinct Paman language closely related to Mpalitjanh. Their dialect differed slightly from the neighbouring Unjadi (Unyadi) in the Western Cape's cluster of related languages and dialects around the Ducie River's catchment.
The post-contact frontier violence as prospectors, miners and cattlemen moved into the northern Cape under the protection of Queensland's Native Mounted Police saw remnants from the Luthigh, Teppathiggi, Mpakwithi, Thaynhakwith, Warrangku, Wimarangga and Yupungathi removed to the Batavia River Mission, where traditional languages were forbidden. As a result, there is minimal historical documentation on the various groups.
In the confusing post-contact ethnography that resulted, Tindale equated the Luthigh/Lotiga with the Okara based on Ursula McConnel's suggestion that Lauriston Sharp's Okara tribe, which he assigned to the Jathaikana type of social organisation, might be the same as the Lotiga.
