"minga" meaning in English

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          "text": "It's easy to see why local Aborigines refer to these intruders as minga—or little ants.",
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          "ref": "2009, Rolf Potts, Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer, page 127",
          "text": "I, too, have come to central Australia as a minga tjuta, though I'm not here to scale the slopes of Uluru.",
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          "text": "At the end of her patrol yesterday arvo, Ruby went into the crater and found a group of minga off track.",
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