DJABUGAY IN AUSTRALIA

THESE FOLKS ARE A GROUP OF ABORIGINES WHO LIVE IN MOUNTAIN LANDS AND WATERS OF THE GREAT DIVIDE. THEY SHARE A COMMON DESCENT FROM ANCESTORS. THEY SHARE A COMMON DESCENT FROM ANCESRTORS WHO DATE BACK FROM ANCESTOR WHO DATE BACK TO TIME IMMEMEMORIAL. THEIR NAMES COME FROM THE HISTORIC DJABUGAY LANGUAGE OR DIALECTS. THEIR LANGUAGE WAS SPOKEN OVER A WIDENING AREA, EACH GROUP HAD A DIFFERENT DIALECT.

THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFIS AS FOLLOWS - THE SOURCE OF LIFE IS THE STORY. IT IS CALLED DREAMTIME. ALL IS FROM THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS, THEIR FOOD, THE CREATIONS OF THE WORLD, THE RAIN. BULLARU IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE. THE DIGABUGA ARE FROM BULLARU. DREAMTIME DESCRIBES THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE WORLD.

THEIR CREATION ERA TALKS ABOUT THE MAKING OF THE WORLD. IT IS THE SACRED PAST. THEIR GREATEST ANCESTOR WAS OF ALL THE WORLD AND IS GUDJU. THEIR STORIES WERE PASSED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. THEIR GREATEST ANCESTOR WAS OF ALL IS GUDJU. HE COULD TRANSFORM INTO ANCESTORS AS A CARPET OF SNAKES. ON A RAILWAY TO KURABNDA THEY TELL THE STORY OF GIANT CARPET SNAKES TO 10000'S OF VISITORS AS THEY TRAVEL TO THE SIDE OF BARRON. GORGE. BY 2004 THE FEDERAL COURT JUDGE DETERMINED WHEATHER OR NOT THE DYABUGAY PEOPLE LAWS ND THEIR SOURCE IN TRADITIONS PRECEDING ENGLISH SETTLEMENT HERE.

EUROPEAN SETTLERS EXPLORED AND CLEARED LAND FOR GOLD AND TIN IN 1880'S. A RAILROAD WAS CONSTRUCTED FROM CAIRN. THE DJABUGAY WERE UNHAPPY ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT. THEIR TRADITIONAL HUNTING GROUNDS WERE TKEN OVER.

IN 1890 THE DJUWAGAY WERE TAKEN TO A MONA MONA MISSION. THE WEREN'T ABLE TO HUNT, FIWSH, OR MOVE AROUND. THEY BECAME LABOROUS ON COFFEE PLANTATIONS. SOME NOW OWN THEIR OWN LAND. IN 2004 THEIR LAND WAS NAMED BARRON GORGE NATIONAL PARK.

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