Djabugay country : an Aboriginal history of tropical North Queensland / Timothy Bottoms
- Bib ID:
- 1283682
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bottoms, Timothy (Timothy David Reis)
- Description:
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- St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1999
- xxii, 138 p. ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1865080314
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 127-132.
- Subject:
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- Djabugay (Australian people) -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Cairns Region -- History
- Land rights - Handbacks
- Stories and motifs
- Social organisation
- Stories and motifs - Cultural heroes
- Djabugay / Tjapukai / Djabuganjdji language (Y106) (Qld SE55-01)
- Government policy - State and territory - Queensland
- Djabugay / Tjapukai / Djabuganjdji people (Y106) (Qld SE55-01)
- Daily life
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Colonisation
- History
- Cairns Region (Qld.) -- Race relations -- History
- Mona Mona (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Barron River (NE Qld SE55-02, SE55-05)
- Kowrowa (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Port Douglas (NE Qld SE55-01)
- Mareeba (NE Qld SE55-01, SE55-05)
- Kuranda (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Flaggy Creek (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Mantaka (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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