Mapoon | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Mapoon was established on the traditional homelands of the Tjungundji (Choong-un-gee) people at Cullen Point in November 1891. The name ‘Mapoon’ is believed to be an anglicised translation of a Tjungundji word meaning ‘place where people fight on the sand-hills’. See more
Our History - Mapoon Aboriginal Shire Council
WEBIn October 1901, Mapoon was gazetted as an industrial school under the Queensland Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act and Northern Protector of Aboriginals W.E. Roth noted in his annual report that prior to this time …
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Aboriginal Community Mapoon - Flickr
WEBIn October 1901, Mapoon was gazetted as an industrial school under the Queensland Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act and Northern Protector of Aboriginals. Mapoon’s …
Mapoon, Queensland - Wikipedia
Teppathiggi (also known Tepithiki and Teyepathiggi) is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Western Cape York Peninsula, Middle Dulcie River, Lower Batavia River, Ducie River, and Mapoon. The language region includes areas within the local government boundaries of Cook Shire Council.
Uradhi (also known as Anggamudi, Ankamuti, Atampaya, Bawtjathi, and Lotiga) is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Western Cape York Peninsula. The traditional language region include…Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license- Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins
Inside Mapoon where seafood is a way of life but a dark past has …
WEBDec 23, 2017 — Children are taught to fish from a young age in Mapoon, a remote Indigenous community in Cape York. (ABC Far North: Anna Hartley) abc.net.au/news/mapoon …
Mapoon: the burning of a community – Solidarity Online
WEBSep 9, 2008 — Following the gazetting of Mapoon as an industrial school in 1901, many children, stolen throughout the Gulf country, were brought to Mapoon. South Sea …
Aboriginal Shire of Mapoon - Wikipedia
WEBThe Queensland Government forcibly removed many children from the Gulf of Carpentaria region to Mapoon when the mission became an industrial school under the Industrial and …
Mapoon (1891-1919) | German Missionaries in …
WEBOld Mapoon. More than fifty years after the Zion Hill missionaries tried to emulate the ‘Moravian model’, the first Moravian mission in Queensland was established at Mapoon.
Mapoon - Indigenous.gov.au
WEBMapoon (also refered to as Old Mapoon) is an Aboriginal community in Cape York, eighty kilometres north of Weipa on the mouth of the Wenlock River, and about 700 km north west of Cairns. Traditional Owners: …
PUTTING THE PAST BEHIND MAPOON - PressReader
WEBAug 28, 2023 — The people of Mapoon, powerless for generations, shaped their own destinies by returning to the place they called “home”. It has a name taught at the primary …
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