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To their north were the coastal Djabugay people. In Norman Tindale's calculation, the Yidiny tribal lands were estimated to cover some 400 square miles (1,000 km 2). These included the areas of Deeral north to Barron River north of Cairns. Their inland extension ran as far as Mount Hypipamee. Their eastern boundary was on the crest of the Prior ...
The Sovereign Yidindji Government or Yidindji Tribal Nation is an Aboriginal Australian micro-nation that claims to exercise Australian Aboriginal sovereignty.Led by Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, members of the Yidindji nation renounced legal ties with Australia in 2014.
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]
Walubarra (aka walubara, [1] walpoll, [2] wolluparra [3] or gimuy walubara yidinji [4]) is the name for the local Aboriginal Australian group (ie the local Yidiny speaking group) whom are particularly associated with, and belong to, the foothills and hillslopes beneath those Wet Tropical mountains that encircle and face, from the west, north west, and north, into the Trinity inlet, being ...
Prior to British settlement, the Cairns area was inhabited by the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people, [6] [7] who still claim their native title rights. [8] Yidinji (also known as Yidinj, Yidiny, and Idindji) is an Australian Aboriginal language.
Djabugay belongs to the Yidinic branch of the Pama–Nyungan language family, and is closely related to Yidin. [3] It shares the distinction, with Bandjalang in north-eastern New South Wales and South East Queensland, and Maung spoken on the Goulburn Islands off the coast of Arnhem Land, of being one of only three languages that lack the dual form. [4]
Norman Tindale's estimate of Guŋgañji lands sets them at 390 square kilometres (150 sq mi).They are rainforest people, living around the Cape Grafton peninsula, west of the Prior Range, and their southern extension runs down to Palmer Point (Wararitji) and the mouth of Mulgrave River.
In Norman Tindale's guesstimate, the Yindjilandji ranged over roughly 8,200 square miles (21,000 km 2) of tribal land.They were a Barkly Tableland people, occupying the area about Buchanan Creek and Ranken River, with a western limits toward Dalmore and Alroy Downs.