Gunggari people

The Gunggari are an indigenous Australian people of southern Queensland.[1] They are to be distinguished from the Kuungkari

Country

The traditional tribal lands of the Kunggari stretched over some 8,200 sq. miles, taking in the Upper Nebine and Mungallala creeks from Bonna Vonna and Ballon[lower-alpha 1] north to Morven and Mungallala.[2]

Language

They speak the Gunggari language, a member of the Maric language family. Their language is closely related to, and sometimes considered a dialect of neighbouring Bidjara and Manandanji languages.[3]

History of contact

As white pastoralists began to seize and develop properties, the neighbouring Mandandanji began to be absorbed into the Kunnggari as the latter moved eastwards.

Social Organisation

According to information supplied by James Lalor to A. W. Howitt. The Kunggari class names were as follows:

  • Urgilla. Totem = Ngorgu (Kangaroo)
  • Anbeir. Totem = Bondun (Bandicoot)
  • Wango. Totems =(a)Tonga (opossum) (b)Bulbora (flying fox)
  • Ubur. Totems = (a) Tambool (Brown snake) (b)Abboia (lizard)[4]

Native Title

The Gunggari people received a positive determination of native title in 2012.[5][6]

Alternative names

  • Unggari.
  • Kungeri.
  • Kungri.
  • Ungorri.
  • Gungari, Gunggari, Goongarree.
  • Coongurri.
  • Unggri, Unghi.
  • Congaro
  • Kogurre
  • Kogai (language name)
  • Ngaragari. (Koamu word for the tongue spoken between Bollon and Nebine Creek)

Notes

  1. ↑ I have retained Tindale's spelling, in case his 'Ballon' is a different place from 'Bollon'.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Gunggari Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC". nativetitle.org.au. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  2. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 178.
  3. ↑ jurisdiction=Queensland, ; corporateName=State Library of Queensland;. "Gunggari language". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  4. ↑ Howitt 1904, pp. 110-111.
  5. ↑ "Native title recognition for the Gunggari People of Queensland". www.nntt.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  6. ↑ "Gunggari win south Qld native title claim". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2018-02-01.

Sources

  • Barlow, Harriott (1873). "Vocabulary of Aboriginal Dialects of Queensland". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 2: 165–175. JSTOR 2841159.
  • Cameron, A. L. P. (1904). "On two Queensland tribes". Science of Man. Sydney. 7 (2): 27–29.
  • Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
  • Ridley, William (1861). "Journal of a Missionary tour among the Aborigines of the Western Interior of Queensland, in the year 1855, by the rev. William Ridley, B.A." (PDF). In Lang, J. D. Queensland, Australia; a highly eligible field for emigration, and the future cotton-field of Great Britain: with a disquisition on the origin, manners, and customs of the aborigines. London: E. Stanford. pp. 435–445.
  • Ridley, William (1873). "Report on Australian Languages and Traditions". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 2: 257–275. JSTOR 2841174.
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kunggari (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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