Aboriginal Pathways: in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond RiverThe first European chroniclers of Indigenous Culture in Australia looked for the sensational, often neglecting its more significant features. In his fourth book on Queensland’s early history, J. G. Steele corrects this imbalance with a detailed account of the Indigenous people of the subtropical coast at the time of their earliest contact with white settlers. The region described is centred on Brisbane, extending along the coast to Fraser Island, to Evens Head in New South Wales, and inland to the Great Dividing Range. Drawing on early accounts, photographs, place-names, languages, legends, archeology, and museum collections, Aboriginal Pathways provides a wealth of fascinating and important material, much of it relevant to debates on Indigenous land rights and sacred sites of the 1980s. |
Contents
The Upper Clarence and Upper Condamine | |
The Tweed | |
Ipswich and the Fassifern and Lockyer Districts | |
The Sunshine Coast | |
Cooloola | |
Fraser Island | |
Conondale | |
The Mary Valley | |
The Maryborough District | |
The Manumbar District | |
The Gold Coast | |
The Beaudesert Area | |
Moreton Island | |
North Stradbroke Island to Lytton | |
The Brisbane Area | |
The DAguilar Range | |
The Upper Brisbane River | |
The South Burnett | |
Museum Collections Notes to Text and Abbreviations | |
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Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal Aboriginal legends Aboriginal place names Amity Point Anon Armitage Australian Badjala Bandjalang bark Beaudesert blacks boomerangs bora ground bora ring Bribie Island Brisbane Courier Brisbane River Bundjalung camp clan Clarence coast corroboree Creek dialect djurebil dugong Dungidau Durundur Eipper fish four tribes Fraser Island Gidabal goanna Gympie head hundred metres Jinibara tribe Kabi kangaroo kilometres known lagoon language Logan Lost tribes Manumbar Maroochy Mary River Maryborough Mathew means Meston metres metres in diameter middens Moreton Bay Moreton Bay district Moreton Island Mount mountain natives Numinbah Valley Petrie Petrie’s reminiscences pine Place-names private communication 1980 Queensland Museum rainbow serpent reported representative tribes Richmond River road rock scrub snake south-east Queensland spear stone Stradbroke Island territory Toorbul Toorbul Point tree tribes of Moreton tribes of south Turrbal Tweed Undanbi Vocabularies of four Waka Wakka Wakka Wakka Wangerriburra waterhole Watson Welsby Widgee Woodenbong Yuggera Yugumbir