Wangan people

The Wangan are an indigenous Australia people of the Isaac Region of Central Queensland. There is no linguistic data.[1]

Country
Traditional lands of tribes around Gladstone

The Wangan were estimated by Norman Tindale to have had roughly 3,000 square miles (7,800 km2) of territory around Capella. These extended northwards to the vicinity of Blair Athol, and eastwards as far as the Peak Ranges. Their westward extension went as far as Drummond Range. They were also present at Peak Downs.[2]

Social divisions

One name at least survives for a clan of the Wangan, the Babbinburra, a horde that inhabited the area between Mistake Creek and Clermont.[2] The element -burra was a suffix, meaning 'tribe, according to James Muirhead, who stated that the Babbinburra/Wangan were one of several tribes speaking the same language.[lower-alpha 1]

History of contact

In very recent developments the descendants of the Wangan together with those of the Jagalingou have been engaged in a legal battle with the Queensland and Federal governments over the approval of the development of the Carmichael coal mine, a project run by the Adani Group.[4][5]

Alternative names
  • Babbinburra.[2]

Some words
  • wanti. (tame dog)
  • aunti/woddi. (father)
  • yunga. (mother)[6]

Notes
  1. The others being:
    • (1) (K)Owanburra on the upper Belyando;
    • (2)Wokkelburra, Lower Belyando and its junction with the Suttor;
    • (4)Terraburra, around Alice River;
    • (5) Mungullaburra, Fort Cooper area;
    • (6)Koombokkaburra, on Bower Downs;
    • (7) Muthoburra on Elgin Downs;
    • (8)Durroburra, in Burdekin/Suttor country.[3]

Citations
  1. E47 Wangan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Tindale 1974, p. 188.
  3. Muirhead 1887, p. 26.
  4. Brigg, Quiggin & Lyons 2017a.
  5. Brigg, Quiggin & Lyons 2017b.
  6. Muirhead 1887, p. 32.

Sources
  • "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
  • Brigg, Morgan; Quiggin, John; Lyons, Kristen (2017a). "Unfinished Business: Adani, the State, and the Indigenous Rights Struggle of the Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners council" (PDF). Earthjustice.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Brigg, Morgan; Quiggin, John; Lyons, Kristen (19 June 2017b). "The last line of defence: Indigenous rights and Adani's land deal". The Conversation.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Muirhead, James (1887). "Belyando" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 26–33.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wangan (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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