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The Irukandji as a distinct tribal identity were close to extinction by the end of the 19th century. William Parry-Okeden, in a short report on Queensland Aboriginal people written in his capacity as Police Commissioner, wrote in 1897 [7] that he counted 6 Yettkie, a name now thought to refer to a remnant of the Irukandji. [4]
The Kooma People's determination spans an area approximately 2,950 square kilometres in the south-west region of Queensland, and falls within the Maranoa, Balonne, Murweh and Paroo local government regions. This country includes the Bendee Downs and Murra Murra pastoral properties; and also includes other areas around Bollon.
The Nywaigi are a coastal people occupying 50 miles of coastland to a depth of some 15 kilometres. To their north, bounded on the west by the Toobanna, Frances Creek and Waterview Creek, over the Herbert River at Halifax and Ingham, were the Biyaygiri. [5] To the west was Warrongo country. Their southern boundary lay at the Seaview Range.
Aboriginal peoples of central-Eastern Queensland The Gayiri , people, also spelt or known as Kairi , Kararya , Kari , Khararya and Kaira , Bimurraburra , Gahrarja , Gara Gara , Ara Ara , and Kara Kara , [ 1 ] are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland .
Murri Courts, a type of specialist community court for sentencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland, were established in August 2002. After being closed down by the government in September 2012 as a cost-cutting exercise, [3] they were reopened in April 2016 under the Palaszczuk government.
The Warrgamay were the Indigenous people of Halifax Bay, and held in Norman Tindale's calculations, approximately 600 square miles (1,600 km 2) of tribal domains. [3] An early resident, James Cassady, specified that they had 50 miles (80 km) of shoreline, extending into the hinterland approximately 15 miles (24 km).
Camboon Station was a major employer of people from the Wulli Wulli first nation. State Library of Queensland holds the Camboon Station records [4] which record the day to day activities or running the pastoral station including details of the Wulli Wulli peopled employed as drovers and stockmen, shepherds, general station hands and domestic servants.
Descendants of the Juru people put in a claim for their native title rights in 2010 who are and only are the following apicals Emily Pickard, Nelle Stell/Steal, Rosie Wake (mother of William and Emma Nicol, and Roger Heron), Lena Taylor, Jinnie Ross, Con Lymburner, Eliza Lampton (Mother of Arthur Lampton) and William Morrell and his wife Bessie Rook.