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Wulguru/Manbarra was one of two Nyawaygic languages and constitutes the fourth class of the Herbert River languages, according to Robert M. W. Dixon. [2] The surviving vocabulary of the Manbarra language, mainly collected by Ernest Gribble in 1932, indicates that it had a roughly 50% lexical overlap with Nyawaygi.
The Bindal people's coastal country includes the Burdekin River's outlet in the south, running northwards as far as Cape Cleveland and inland to the Leichhardt Range. They were the indigenous people of Ayr. Norman Tindale estimated the overall extent of their lands at about 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2). [2]
Aboriginal peoples such as the Wulgurukaba, Bindal, Girrugubba, Warakamai and Nawagi originally inhabited the Townsville area. [17] [18] The Wulgurukaba claim to be the traditional owners of the Townsville city area; the Bindal had a claim struck out by the Federal Court of Australia in 2005. [19]
There is an entity known as the Gabulbarra Reference Group registered in Townsville, [3] which lodged two native title claims over parts of Magnetic Island in 1998, but this group was acting for the Wulgurukaba people of Townsville and the Manbarra people of Palm Island. [4] [5]
The Ocean Siren was modelled on Takoda Johnson, a young indigenous girl from the Wulgurukaba tribe. It reacts to live water temperature data from the Australian Institute of Marine Science Davies Reef weather station on the Great Barrier Reef and changes color in response to live variations in water temperature.
Palm Island and Townsville. Wulguru, (also known as Manbara, Manbarra, Korambelbara, Mun ba rah, Nyawaygi or Wulgurukaba) is an Australian Aboriginal language, now extinct, that was spoken by the Wulgurukaba (or Manbarra) people around the area around present day Townsville, Queensland, on the east coast of Australia.
There is no one better to tell the story of womenhood in Afghanistan than the women themselves
Gugu Badhun people have experienced colonisation and dispossession from land, but their story "is a story of achievement in the face of adversity". [ 1 ] The first European contact with Gugu Badhun people was Ludwig Leichhardt 's exploratory party in 1845, making them among the first inland Aboriginal nations in Northern Australia to encounter ...