Who are the traditional owners in Brisbane?

Who are the traditional owners in Brisbane?

Brisbane was founded upon the homelands of the Turrbal and Jagera peoples and is the gateway to a huge variety of experiences throughout South East Queensland.

Who are the traditional owners of Townsville?

Traditional owners and custodians, the Bindal and Wulgurukaba People are the first people to have lived in the Townsville region.

Who are the traditional owners of calamvale?

We envisioned to educate ourselves, our families and our greater community about the Jagera Peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the Land on which our service is located, holistically embed their histories, perspectives and ways of being into our own everyday lives.

Who are the traditional owners of Mackay?

Mackay Regional Council respects the traditional custodians of the lands that make up our region, the Yuwibara people. We also acknowledge all other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who call our region home.

Where are the Turrbal people from?

Brisbane, Queensland
The Turrbal are an Aboriginal Australian people from the region of present-day Brisbane, Queensland. The name primarily referred to the dialect they spoke, the tribe itself being alternatively called Mianjin/Meanjin.

Is Brisbane Yuggera or Turrbal?

The Turrbal and Jagera people speak Yuggera and their name for Brisbane is Meanjin.

What is the Aboriginal name for Townsville?

Wulgurukaba
Townsville has been home to the Indigenous Tribes of the Wulgurukaba and Bindal people. The land on which The Willows State School is built, was traditionally inhabited by the Wulgurukaba people.

What does Yunbenun mean?

Long before Magnetic Island had its current name, it was known as Yunbenun. That name was give to the island by the Wulgarukaba people who lived on the island for thousands of years before European settlement. One of their popular camping spots was Cockle Bay near the island’s southern tip.

Who are the traditional owners of Southport?

The Yugambeh language people are the traditional custodians of the land located in south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales, now within the Logan City, Gold Coast, Scenic Rim, and Tweed City regions whose ancestors all spoke one or more dialects of the Yugambeh Language.

What Aboriginal land is Mackay on?

Yuwibara
The Yuwibara, also written Yuibera and Juipera and also known as Yuwi, after their language, are an Aboriginal Australian people, originating from the area around present-day Mackay, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia.

How many indigenous people are there in Mackay?

The 2020 Estimated Residential Population (ERP) is 117,902. This represents an increase from the 2016 ERP of 117,218, or 684 persons….The Non-Indigenous cohort stands out with 100,198 people.

Cohorts Mackay
Aboriginal 3,653
Torres Strait Islander 1,271
Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 929

Who are the Turrbul and the Jagera?

Riverside Centre acknowledges the Turrbul and the Jagera peoples who are the Traditional Custodians of this land, and recognises their ongoing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the First Australians, and their Elders past, present and emerging.

Who are the Turrbal people?

The Turrbal people have been the custodians of the Brisbane area for many thousands of years

Who were the Yuggera people?

The groups who spoke dialects of the Yuggera language that lived in the region include the Turrbal People, Jagera People, Yugara People, Yuggera Ugarapul People, Jagera Yagera Gurrangnam.

Are the Turrbal people dead and gone?

The Turrbal people are not all dead and gone – we are alive and well, and our compelling story goes back to the heroic and inspiring survival of Maroochy Barambah’s great, great grandmother named Kulkarawa. King of Toorbal – the King of the Turrbal Tribe from the 1820s to the 1850s

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