ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA –

Culture and history of the Djabuganydji, Nyagali, Guluy, Buluwanydji and Yirrganydji peoples who speak dialects of Djabugay; Ancestors’ stories; history of contact by sea and by land; setting up Mona Mona Mission near Flaggy Creek and operation of the Mission; Kyber Farm; Four Mile Beach Camp, Port Douglas; effects of the closure of Mona Mona Mission on 1/1/1963; life at Mantaka; handback of parcels of land at Mantaka and Kowrowa.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 127-132.

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Land rights – Handbacks
  • Stories and motifs
  • Social organisation
  • Stories and motifs – Cultural heroes
  • Government policy – State and territory – Queensland
  • Daily life
  • Religions – Christianity – Missions
  • Language – Vocabulary – Place names
  • Colonisation
  • History
  • Djabugay / Tjapukai / Djabuganjdji language (Y106) (Qld SE55-01)
  • Djabugay / Tjapukai / Djabuganjdji people (Y106) (Qld SE55-01)
  • Mona Mona (NE Qld SE55-02)
  • Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)
  • Barron River (NE Qld SE55-02, SE55-05)
  • Kowrowa (NE Qld SE55-02)
  • Port Douglas (NE Qld SE55-01)
  • Mareeba (NE Qld SE55-01, SE55-05)
  • Kuranda (NE Qld SE55-02)
  • Flaggy Creek (NE Qld SE55-02)
  • Mantaka (NE Qld SE55-02)

  Subject:

  • Djabugay (Australian people) — History
  • Aboriginal Australians — Queensland — Cairns Region — History
  • Cairns Region (Qld.) — Race relations — History
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  • Timothy Bottoms is a Cairns-based professional historian and radio producer whose many published and broadcast projects include histories of the people of tropical far north Queensland based on collaboration with local communities. To research and write Djabugay Country, Tim worked closely with the Elders of the Djabugay to blend oral testimony with documentary, pictorial and other archival material into a fascinating community history.