Global InformationKuku Nyungkal information
| Kuku Nyungkal | |
|---|---|
| Aka: Kokonyungal (Tindale), Gugu Njunggal (AIATSIS), Kuku-Nyungkul (SIL) | |
 Wet Tropics BioRegion | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Language Family: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Language Branch: | Yalandyic |
| Language Group: | Kuku Yalanji |
| Dialect: | Kuku Nyungkal |
| Estates: | Kuna[1] Ngulungkaban[1] Muwan[1] Jiraraku[1] Wulumuban[1] Ngarrimurril[1] Nyambilnyambil[1] Yulbu[1] Yumal[1] Kabu[1] |
| Area (approx. 800 km²) | |
| BioRegion: | Wet Tropics |
| Location: | Far North Queensland |
| Coordinates: | 15°40′S 145°15′E / 15.667°S 145.250°E |
| Mountains: | Black Mountain (a.k.a. Kalkajaka[2][3]) Mount Amos (a.k.a. Muku Muku[4] Mount Finnigan |
| Rivers | Annan River (a.k.a. Yuku-Baja[3][5]) Upper Normanby River[6] |
| Creeks | Russell Creek (a.k.a. Ngarrilmurril[3]) Banana Creek |
| Other Geological: | Shiptons Flat (a.k.a. Kuna[5]) Kings Plain (a.k.a. Dandi[5]) Cedar Bay (a.k.a. Mangkalba[5]) Hope Islands |
| Settlements: | Helenvale (a.k.a. Bibikarrbaja[5]), Rossville (a.k.a. Ngulangaban[5]) |
| Notable Individuals | |
| Noel Pearson[7] | |
| Henrietta Marrie | |
The Kuku Nyungkal people (or Annan River Tribe[8]) are a group of Aboriginal Australians who are the original custodians of the coastal mountain slopes, wet tropical forests, waters, and waterfalls of the Upper Annan River, south of Cooktown, Queensland
All Kuku Nyungkal people share in common social descent from ancestors who back to time immemorial have transmitted, from generation to generation, their Kuku Nyungkal dialect, knowledge, names (for people, places, and things), traditions, heritage, plus lore[6]
In 1995 Queensland's Aboriginal Land Tribunal, relying on Kuku Nyungkal genealogical material submitted to them, estimated the total population of Kuku Nyungkal people to be "at least 900" (not including those people who had married into Kuku Nyungkal families)[6]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Anderson, Christopher (1983) "Aborigines and Tin Mining in North Queensland: A case study in the Anthropology of Contact History" The Australian Journal of Anthropology 13(6): 473-498
- ^ Environmental Protection Agency (Qld) "Black Mountain ((Kalkajaka) National Park - Features" Accessed 24 February 2009
- ^ a b c "Bama Way" map Accessed 13 March 2009
- ^ Anderson 1983: 475)
- ^ a b c d e f Hershberger, Henry & Hershberger Ruth (1986) "Kuku Yalanji Dictionary Summer Institute of Linguistics. Darwin" Accessed 16 March 2009
- ^ a b c Australian Indigenous Law Reporter (1996) Aboriginal Land Claim to Available Crown Land near Helenvale: Wunbuwarra - Banana Creek Accessed 14 March 2009
- ^ Aboriginal Land Tribunal (1995) "Aboriginal Land Claim to Available Crown Land near Helenvale: Wunbuwarra - Banana Creek" Report to the Hon. Minister for Lands, November 1995, Queensland Government.
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