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The British set up manned pilot station in their territory in 1825. Initially they continued to show themselves hospitable to the newcomers, but gradually relations soured over frictions arising from possession of indigenous women, some of whom, according to Nunukul oral history traditions, suffered abduction.
The Jagera people, also written Yagarr, Yaggera, Yuggera, and other variants, are the Australian First Nations people who speak the Yuggera language. The Yuggera language which encompasses a number of dialects was spoken by the traditional owners of the territories from Moreton Bay to the base of the Toowoomba ranges including the city of ...
The Quandamooka people (Jandai pronunciation: / ˈ k w ɒ n d ə ˌ m ʊ k ə /) are Aboriginal Australians who live around Moreton Bay in Southeastern Queensland. They are composed of three distinct tribes, the Nunukul, the Goenpul [a] and the Ngugi, and they live primarily on Moreton and North Stradbroke Islands, that form the
Stephen George Page [1] was born in Brisbane in 1965. [2] He was the tenth of 12 children, [3] raised in the Brisbane suburb of Mt Gravatt. [4] /> Page is descended from the Nunukul people on his mother's side [5] and the Munaldjali of the Yugambeh people from southeast Queensland, [6] [7] on his father's, but his parents lived in a time where they were not able to celebrate their Aboriginal ...
Australian Aboriginal dancers in 1981. Traditional Aboriginal Australian dance was closely associated with song and was understood and experienced as making present the reality of the Dreamtime. In some instances, they would imitate the actions of a particular animal as part of telling a story.
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Djuki Mala first came to attention in 2007 after Margaret Nyungunyungu recorded a video of the group performing in Darwin. One of the dancers was her son Lionel Dulmanawy Garawirrtja who came up with their routine to honour his sister's carer, a Greek lady named Liliane. [1] As of June 2017 the video had over 2.7 million views. [2]
The Goenpul's traditional lands occupied some 100 square miles (260 km 2) on southern part of Stradbroke Island.On their northern boundary were the Nunukul. [3] As one of the three tribes constituting the Quandamooka people, the others being the Nunukul and the Ngugi, [1] they are custodians with traditional ownership rights in Moreton Bay.