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The Wanamara's tribal lands extended over, in Norman Tindale's calculations, some 13,000 square miles (34,000 km 2) from the headwaters of the Flinders River, eastwards as far as Richmond.
They were one of the Channel Country peoples associated with the Cooper Creek river system, and lay to the north of Durham Downs. Their eastern limits were around Mount Howitt and Kyabra Creek. Their northwesterly frontiers lay in proximity of Lake Yamma Yamma. [2] Neighbouring tribes were the Kuungkari, Bidia and Kulumali.
Males were initiated into full manhood by undergoing subincision at the Mika ceremony. Hill described the technique in the following terms: One of the elders will lie face downwards on the ground, a slight excavation having been made there to receive the stomach, the initiate is placed upon this individual's back, face up, his limbs are placed in position by various assistants, one of whom ...
The Kongabula inhabited the steep forest areas of the Carnarvon Range and the headwaters of the Injune (Hutton) Creek and Dawson River north of their meeting point. They lay both east and north of the Great Dividing Range Norman Tindale set their lands at 2,300 square miles (6,000 km 2).
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.
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.
White settlement in this area began around 1874-1878. It was estimated that at the time of first contact, the population of this area, including not only the Kuungkari, but two other tribes (the Bidia), was around 1,200.
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 .