Lama Lama people

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The Lama Lama, also spelt Lamalama, are a contemporary Aboriginal 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 or clan group, the Bakanambia. [1] They are today an aggregation of remnants of several former tribes or clan groups.

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The Lamalama were constituted from several distinct language groups, speaking respectively Umpithamu, Morrobalama (Umbuygamu), Mba Rumbathama (Lamalama) and Rimanggudinhma. [2]

History

The Lama Lama people arose out of the fusion of roughly 40 patrician clans and something like five 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 consist of more than a dozen cognatic descent groups. [3]

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