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A Nunukul, Bobby Winter, played, together with the former convict Eugene Doucette who had taken up residence among the Nunukul at Amity Point, Queensland Amity Point, played a key role in the capture of the Dalla-Djindubari guerilla leader Dundalli's brother, Oumulli in 1848.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (/ ˈ ʊ d ɡ ə r uː ˈ n uː n ə k əl / UUD-gə-roo NOO-nə-kəl; born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, later Kath Walker (3 November 1920 – 16 September 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian political activist, artist and educator, who campaigned for Aboriginal rights. [1]
Leeanne Enoch, a Quandamooka of Nunukul-Nughi descent, is the Labor party member for the district of Algester in the Queensland assembly since 2015. She is the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Parliament of Queensland and has held various ministerial positions. [19] [20]
Dundalli was born into the Dalla tribes, probably as a son of the Dalambara clan. [2] Together with his brother Oumulli, he grew up in the Blackall Range.The area had a rich regional economy, with fertile ranges spread out over areas of spectacular scenery, with waterfalls plunging into deep gorges.
Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow was one of the three Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) chiefs who traveled to Great Britain to meet the Queen. He is a Mohawk Chief and a member of the Bear clan. During his visit, Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow was baptized and from then on called Peter Brant. He was the grandfather of famous Iroquois leader Joseph Brant.
The Ngugi language was called guwar, a term that, by extension served as one of the names for the people, reflects their word for "no" (gowarliosislipotinoionalop). [1] It was mutually intelligible with the other Moreton bay languages: Tom Petrie, who had mastered the Brisbane area Turrbal language could, according to his daughter's reminiscences, understand the speech of Ngugi people from the ...
For a traditional leader to be accepted by government, they must be appointed according to the customary law of their clan, without major disputes about their current reign. [2] Leaders and their administrative staff are not paid by the state. Instead the traditional group's members are expected to sustain their leadership.
Yarun was the name given by the Djindubari to their land, [8] which was subsequently renamed Bribie Island. Norman Tindale regarded the Djindubari as a horde, restricted to Bribie Island, and thus a subunit of a larger tribe, the Undanbi, which he describes as occupying some 900 square miles (2,300 km 2) of territory including the coastal land along Coolum Beach and Moreton Bay, extending from ...