Bonyi Bush Books

In this part;

Jack Napoleon, 

Dundalli, 

Jandamurra 

the Kalkadoons.

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Musquito and the Black Banditti

Yagan of the Nyungar,

by David Lowe

A collection of biographies of Aboriginal resistance fighters; chapters on Windradyne, Musquito, Yagan, Jack Napoleon, Dundalli, Jandamurra and the Kalkadoons.

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Wild White Men in Queensland.

By Cilento, Raphael and Lack, Clem (1959)

The First Wild White Men.

Pamphlett and Finnegan (April to December, 1823), and Parsons (April 1823 to September 1824) were the first white men known to have lived with the blackfullahs in what is now Queensland. The best known "wild white men" in the area between Moreton Bay, the Darling Downs, and the Burnett area, were:

John Sterry Baker. ("Boraltchou" or "Boralsha").

John Graham. ("Moilow").

David (Bracefield). (Bracefell). ("Wandi").

James Davis. ("Duram- boi"; "Dormboi"; "Tallboy").

Samuel Derrington, a more shadowy character, was also a "wild white man".

While John Fahy. ("Gilberri"; "Gilbury") might be called the last to merit mention.

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Written by Constance Campbell Petrie, this invaluable work of social history vividly describes life in the Moreton Bay penal settlement from the 1830s." "Tom was over sixty years old when he told his life story to his daughter Constance

The Kabi Genocide - Deportation to Barambah

by Ray Gibbons (2019)

Queensland Aboriginals suffered a rolling genocide across multiple phases from invasion to  deportation and repression, group by group, area by area. We deconstruct this fractal-like process  in a companion volume.

For now, we will briefly focus on one particular language group (the Kabi of  the Sunshine Coast) for one particular phase of Lemkinian repression (deportation and detention to  Barambah).

Barambah near Murgon in traditional Waka Waka territory operated as an internment camp  for Aboriginals who were rounded up from southeast Queensland, including the Kabi.  Barambah was gazetted as a Salvation Army Aboriginal mission from 1900 when it was  handed over to the Queensland Government in 1905 before being renamed Cherbourg in  1931.

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Author(s): Greg Blyton

Source: Aboriginal History, 2015, Vol. 39 (2015), pp. 63-82

In recent years there have been a number of important historical works which recognise the important contribution of Aboriginal guides in the exploration of Australia. This article contributes to this field by providing a narrative history of a young Aboriginal man from Newcastle called Harry Brown who accompanied the well-known Prussian explorer, Dr Ludwig Leichhardt, on two expeditions into the interior of Australia in the 1840s. Brown was a highly intelligent, resilient and skilful man who made an enormous contribution to Australian exploration, yet has been overlooked in Australian historiography. His contribution to Australian exploration is an example of Aboriginal influence during the nineteenth century which extends well beyond simplistic portrayals of Aboriginal people as useful, submissive and subservient guides. It will be demonstrated in this article that without the courageous and resolute Brown along with his perspicacity and judgement, the widespread celebration of Leichhardťs discoveries may not have been forthcoming.

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The Dreaming of Kin Kin.

A story about the little black ants of Kin Kin.

In the ancestor time at War'pbunga-nga, the Land of the Frogs and Wub'onga-nga, the Land of the Mosses and ferns, there lived two little peoples called the Wa'baungi: the Frog People and the Wu'banga: the People who come out of the Moss.

They lived high in the great ceedar, beech and bunya trees where none could see or find them.

Their lands were in the east past the mountain places of Mu’dhaba, the Land of Spider. Mu’dhaba is now known as Mothar Mountain.

They lived on forest fruits, plants, birds, eggs, pigeons, snakes, crayfish, eel and grubs.

In their lands were the great mountains that once came from fire called Bpin-bparrin'ga (the

Place where the ground squeezes out. mount Pinbarren.),

Kgauwang-dhur (the Place of the tall round trees. Mount Cooran) and

Kgurru'gai (the Round Mountain looking at the Sky. Mount Cooroora ).

At the place of Kgurru'gai, Mount Cooroora, was the place of the sweet honeysuckle flowers called Pbomerra or Pomoma, where the bees gather.

Further to the south was the place of Ngam burra or Nambour (the red-flowering Tea Tree) where the Dhak'kin birds (Rainbow parrots) played in profusion and happiness.

To the west of the mountains of Mu’dhaba in the lands of the Yuroi (the climbing vine) lived the Spider, Bee and Snake peoples. They were tall forest people. They were great hunters who killed the ducks, turkey, wallaby, emu, anteater, fish and many other animals. They were

fighting people.

Yuroi lands are an area known as the Skyring Creek valley that continues through to

Cooran/ Pomona. It finishes near Mount Cooroora an area about 68 kms north of

Cooroy near the base of the ranges.

The Spider People would use their nets to trap people and take them away.

The Bee People would blow little spear (stingers) to make people go to sleep and then take

them away.

The Snake People were (angry) fighters. They were the most feared by others. They had big clubs that crushed the head. They had long axes that cut away the body. They would take away the skins and eat the meat.

A Survey of Early Settlement in the Maroochy District

up to the Passing of the Crown Lands Alienation Act, 1868.

by E.G. heaps

ABORIGINES OF THE MAROOCHY DISTRICT

The early settlers in the Maroochy District were not long in the area before  they came into contact with its native inhabitants, the Kabi, whose territory  embraced the country drained by the Burrum, Mary, Maroochy, and Mooloolah Rivers  and also Eraser and Bribie Islands.

As the Aborigines are said to have brought the dingo with them when they  migrated to Australia, it is probable that in the society they left they were at  the cultural level known as the Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age; for it was at that  stage that hunters used dogs to assist them in their chase. The Aborigines, from  some points of view, made an unwise move in migrating to Australia from South-East  Asia, as in this country there were no seed plants producing cereals of a standard,  equal to those of some of the lands they left behind, and no animals suitable as  beasts of burden to enable them to begin the slow process of conquering their  environment. Accordingly, when the first settlers moved into the Maroochy District,  they came into contact for the first time with Stone Age people.

As is well known, Dampler described the Australian Aborigines as "the  miserablest people in the world;" and it is true that too much reliance has been  placed on his opinion. Other early writers, on the other hand, have commented  favorably on the physique and general bearing of Australia's indigenous population.  Meston^ collected opinions from no fewer than two dozen of these early observers,  commencing with Elizabeth Macarthur, who wrote in 1825, and all of them bore witness  to the high physical standards of the Aborigines.

. Watson, who saw his first Kabi Aborigine in 1876, described him as having a  "mien ... of innate dignity." Thorne,^ writing of his experiences in the Maroochy  and Noosa districts during the 1860s, spoke of the Kabi as  a fine race of men ... Their strength is very

considerable, although, perhaps, they have not the

endurance of white men. We have seen a blackfellow

carry a 200 lbs bag of flour on his head a distance

. of two miles, only resting once on the way

Aboriginal Pathways in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River

by J.G. Steele

University of Queensland Press .  1982

The Brisbane Area.

This chapter considers the area in which the Turrbal language was spoken. Since the extent of this area has sometimes been disputed, let it be stated clearly that the

evidence of Tom Petrie is accepted here.

When challenged about the scope of the Turrbal area, Petrie replied, "The

Brisbane tribe - 'Turrubul' - extended as far south as the Logan River, and north to the Pine River; then the dialect spoken at Humpybong was different again." His daughter

amplified this: "The Turrbal language was spoken as far inland as Gold Creek or Moggill, as far north as North Pine, and south to the Logan, but my father could speak to and understand any black from Ipswich, as far north as Mount Perry, or from Fraser, Bribie, Stradbroke and Moreton Islands."!

The reference to Moggill is corroborated by the Rev. William Ridley, who in 1855 addressed thirty Aboriginals at Moggill in Turrubul and found that they understood the address.

The area will be described in terms of five identifiable

clans, although other clans no doubt inhabitated the area.

The clans to be described are

• the "Duke of York's" clan, occupying the Brisbane

metropolitan area on the north side of the river;

• the North Pine or Petrie clan;

• the Coorpooroo clan on the south bank of the Brisbane

River;

• the Chepara clan of Eight Mile Plains; and

• the Yerongpan clan of Oxley Creek

The Aboriginal people of the area now known as Cooloola Shire spoke a language named Kabi after the word they used for 'No'. Dialects of this language were spoken among the Aboriginal groups who occupied particular territories from Childers in the north to Bribie Island in the south and west to the mountains that divide the Mary and Burnett Rivers.