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12-416: (Redirected from Yidindji ) Yidinji or Yidindji may refer ro: Yidinji people Sovereign Yidindji Government Yidiny language Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Yidinji . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

24-537: A more viable political unit, in the shape of a macro-tribe, but the merger failed to take hold, given the notable linguistic differences between groups. In 2014, 40 members of the Yidiny people, led by Murrumu Walubara Yidindji (formerly Jeremy Geia) renounced legal ties with Australia to form the Sovereign Yidindji Government , claiming sovereignty over the lands from south of Port Douglas to Cairns and

36-426: A shot was fired from one side into the camp to make them scatter, and then as they rushed into the ambushing forces elsewhere, were shot down. The native police then stabbed or smashed the brains of the children. One group of the Yidiny, broke off from the rest of the tribe in the early period of settlement, and after shifting to the area of the present-day Redlynch asserted a distinctive identity by calling themselves

48-479: Is considered primitive with at least 587 moths identified worldwide, including southern Gondwana distribution. Adult moths have greyish brown forewings each with a faint pale pattern. The hindwings are red shading to grey along the margins. The head and thorax have fawn patterns, and the abdomen is red. The wingspan is about 12 cms. Norman Tindale first described the Buluwandji ghost moth in 1964 and named it after

60-521: The Atherton Tablelands . The Yidiny were composed of several Clans , with Norman Tindale (1974) reporting five: Newer sources list eight: Buluwai The Buluwai are an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland . The Buluwai are a rainforest people of the Atherton Tableland , occupying, according to Norman Tindale , some 200 square miles (520 km ) in

72-494: The tropical rainforest areas from Cairns to Ingham , and the Atherton Tableland were cleared off their land to enable the establishment of cattle stations and sugar cane plantations. Jack Kane participated in some massacres as a youth and recalled, in 1938 one episode alone in 1884, during a week-long campaign to round up the tribes, Queensland police and native troopers, encircled a Yidiny camp at what became known as Skull Pocket, several miles north of Yungaburra . At dawn,

84-517: The Buluwai people where the moth was found. The Seventh-day Adventists established a mission on Buluwai lands in 1930 calling it Mona Mona Mission . According to contemporary Buluwai elder Willie Brim, the missionaries imposed a highly regimented 'Christian' way of life. The Mission was closed down in 1962. Today most descendants identify themselves with the Djabugay people , though some Buluwai maintain

96-586: The Djumbandji. This segment took over a part of Buluwai territory. Starting around 1910, even those who remained in the area of white settlement were the object of a Queensland Government policy of shifting them into the Anglican mission at Yarrabah on the Cape Grafton peninsula . As each tribe was weakened by dispersal and fragmentation, the elders formed a counter-plan in the 1920s to organise themselves into

108-442: The area east of Tolga , and extending on north to Kuranda , and in a south-westerly direction to Tinaroo . The Barron River formed their coastal limit. The Buluwai language was recorded by Norman Tindale in 1938 during the 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939'. Oxycanus buluwandji is a moth of the family Hepialidae , often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths. The family

120-652: The areas of Deeral north to Gordonvale and Cairns . Their inland extension ran as far as Lake Barrine . Their eastern boundary was on the crest of the Prior Range. Today, there are four traditional owner groups representing the peoples of the Cairns region. One of these groups represents the Yidinji clans, and comprises Gimuy Walubara Yidinji, Dulabed Malanbarra and Yidinji, Mandingalbay Yidinji and Wadjanbarra Tableland Yidinji. The Yidiny, along with many other tribal people in

132-568: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yidinji&oldid=943211995 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Yidinji people The last fluent speakers of Yidiny were Tilly Fuller (d. October 1974), George Davis (b.1919), Dick Moses (b.1898) and his sister Ida Burnett of White Rock . A substantial part of

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144-518: The language has been analysed and recorded by Robert M. W. Dixon . The Yidiny lands were in lowland rainforest areas, stretching from Yarrabah down to the south, where their borders met those of the Ngajanji and the Mamu . To their north were the coastal Djabugay people. In Norman Tindale 's calculation, the Yidiny tribal lands were estimated to cover some 400 square miles (1,000 km ). These included

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