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Author Bottoms, Timothy (Timothy David Reis)

Title Djabugay country : an Aboriginal history of tropical North Queensland / Timothy Bottoms
Published St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1999

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Description xxii, 138 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents Foreword by the Elders -- Preface by Noel Pearson -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Illustrations -- A guide to Djabugay pronunciation -- Glossary -- 1. Journeys of the Gurra-Gurra (Ancestors) -- 2. From Bama Bulmba to Far North Queensland (1873-1912) -- 3. Mission Days (1913-1962) -- 4. This side of the railway tracks (1963-1997) -- Afterword by Henry Reynolds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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
Analysis Aborigines
Cairns
Djabugay (Aboriginal people)
History
Queensland
Rainforests
Social conditions
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 127-132
Subject Djabugay (Australian people) -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Cairns Region (Qld.) -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Cairns Region -- History
Djabugay (Australian people)
SUBJECT Cairns Region (Qld.) -- History
Cairns Region (Qld.) -- Race relations -- History
Author Pearson, Noel, 1965-
Reynolds, Henry, 1938-
LC no. 00363898
ISBN 1865080314