TheMariamo orMarri ammu are an indigenous Australian people of theNorthern Territory.
TheethnonymMariamo/Marri Ammu signifies 'plains language'.[1]
Mariamo belongs to theWestern branch of theDaly River language family.
The Mariamo tribal lands covered some 100 square miles (260 km2) of swampland south of Mount Greenwood. Their status as an in independent tribe has been maintained by bothW. E. H. Stanner andNorman Tindale.[2]