Lama Lama
The Lama Lama are a contemporary Indigenous Australian people of the eastern Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. The term was formerly used as one of the ethnonyms associated with a distinct tribe, the Bakanambia.[1]
Languages
The Lamalama were constituted from several distinct language groups, speaking respectively Umpithamu, Morrobalama (Umbuygamu), Mba Rumbathama (Lamalama) and Rimanggudinhma.[2]
History
The Lamalama people arose out of the fusion of roughly 40 patrician clans and something like 5 distinct language groups and an as yet unknown number of local people, to form a distinct group in their own right, exercising a collective land right based on their diverse heritage of land ownership. They now comprise more than a dozen cognatic descent groups.[3]
Notes
Citations
- ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 164.
- ↑ Verstraete & De Cock 2008, p. 219.
- ↑ Rigsby & Chase 2014, p. 309.
Sources
- Rigsby, Bruce; Chase, Athol (2014). "The Sandbeach People and Dugong hunters of Eastern Cape York Peninsula: property in land and sea country". In Peterson, Nicolas; Rigsby, Bruce. Customary marine tenure in Australia. Sydney University Press. pp. 307–350. ISBN 978-1-743-32389-2.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Bakanambia (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- Verstraete, Jean-Christophe; De Cock, Barbara (April 2008). "Construing Confrontation: Grammar in the Construction of a Key Historical Narrative in Umpithamu". Language in Society. Cambridge University Press. 37 (2): 217–240. JSTOR 20108123.