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The Wulili were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Queensland North-east state of Australia

Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).

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Language

Wulili is regarded as a dialect of Wagawaga. [1] Nils Holmer has analysed what little has been salvaged from the language. [2]

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Country

Norman Tindale assigned the Wulili an area of traditional tribal lands of approximately 3,200 square miles (8,300 km2), ranging over the headwaters of the Auburn River and Redbank Creek, northwards as far as Walloon and Camboon, and on the ranges east of the Dawson River. he placed their eastern borders in the vicinity of Eidsvold. [3]

Norman Tindale Australian biologist

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History

A very late tradition collected in 1979 [4] states that a certain Jimmy Reid, A Camboon station resident, told a third party before his own death, that the Wulili had participated in the Hornet Bank massacre. [5] In her memoir, the Queensland poet Judith Wright affirmed that, together with the Yiman, who were held responsible for the killings of the Fraser family, the Wulili also were wiped out. [6] John Mathew, however, managed to collect samples of their language from native informants decades later, and published the results in 1926. [7]

The Hornet Bank massacre of eleven British colonists and one Aboriginal station-hand in direct retaliation to the deaths of twelve Iman people by member(s) of the Fraser clan, occurred at about one or two o'clock on the morning of 27 October 1857. It took place at Hornet Bank station on the upper Dawson River near Eurombah in central Queensland, Australia. In subsequent punitive missions conducted by Native Police, private settler militias and by William Fraser, as many as 300 Aborigines may have been murdered in counter-retaliation. Indiscriminate shootings of Aboriginal men, women and children found within a wide radius of the station were conducted. The result was the believed extermination of the entire Iman tribe and language group by 1858, but this is however not true and descendants of this group have recently been recognised by The High Court of Australia to be the original custodians of the land surrounding the town of Taroom.

Judith Wright Twentieth century Australian poet, environmentalist and Indigenous rights campaigner

Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.

The Yiman, also referred to as Yeeman/Eoman or Jiman, and by themselves in modern times as Iman, are an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the Upper Dawson River region around Taroom of eastern Central Queensland.

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Notes

    Citations

    1. ↑ Dixon 2002, p. xxxiv.
    2. ↑ Holmer 1983.
    3. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 190.
    4. ↑ Reid 1982, pp. 49, 222.
    5. ↑ Reid 1982, p. 97.
    6. ↑ Wright 1999, p. 16.
    7. ↑ Mathew 1926, pp. 524–539.

    Sources

    Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon is a Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland. He is also Deputy Director of The Language and Culture Research Centre at JCU. Doctor of Letters, he was awarded a prestigious Honorary Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa by JCU in 2018. Fellow of British Academy; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, he is one of three living linguists to be specifically mentioned in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by P. H. Matthews.

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