Monday 19 November 2018

NNTT Waanyi People #2

National Native Title Tribunal File QC2018/004 available here entered on the Register 9/11/2018.

The attachments are as follows :-
Register extract available here
Attachment B2 - Areas Excluded from the Claim area here
Attachment C - Map showing Boundaries of the Area Covered by the Application here
Attachment B1 - External Boundaries of the Claim Area here

A person is a Waanyi person if and only if:
1. the other Waanyi people recognise that he or she is descended (which may include by adoption) from a person who they recognise as having been Waanyi; and

2. the person identifies himself or herself as a Waanyi person. It is accepted that adoption may take place and that where adoption has occurred it confers upon the adoptee the right to identify as being a Waanyi person.

The following deceased persons are recognised as having been Waanyi people from whom living Waanyi people may be descended:

1. King George (Gundawarinya), Mary Starr (Namura), Marrandu
2. Johnny Rockland (Guyanda)
3. Wuragaga (including his sons Toby Daly and Charlie Walden)
4. Wirduga (including her sons King Pedro and Fred Mangala), Yurumburinya, Gudurju, Jagijagi (including her children Left-hand Dick, King Darby, Violet Darby), Lagayi, and Brenda Munara (including her children Duncan Hogan, Julie Darby, Dan Darby, Clara Darby, Frank Hogan, Arthur Peterson)
5. Jack Riversleigh (including his children Doris Aplin and Vera Johnny, Annie King and Elaine Cairns)
6. Diana (Dina) Jackson
7. Fred Mangala (including his children Jimmy Doolan, Tommy Doolan, Oscar Gregory and Queenie Bell) and King Pedro (including his children Dinny, Jock and Cubby Pedro)
8. Janggali (including his son Yarribija's children: Duncan Hogan, Julie Darby, Dan Darby, Clara Darby, Frank Hogan, Arthur Peterson; and his daughter Muranji's daughters: Jamuyu and Lidi Wayawarrinya)
9. King Darby, Left Hand Dick and Violet Darby
10. Ruby Lilwayi (including her daughter Elsie Foster), Polly Nganduyu (including her children: Nancy Carlton, Ned George, Sally O'Keefe, Bubi Dick, Netty Malbow and Nuts Logan), May Black Nijirijbina (including her children Nancy Wilson, Nora Black, Dora Doolan nee Black and Archie Black), Ruby Gijaya (including her children Mavis Carlton, Junie Clay, Maurice Carlton, Marina Dick, Mick Miller, Murray Donaldson), and Mailman Dick Gungayamaji (including his child Ivy George Ngayaya)
11. Smiler Diamond (including his children: Mick Diamond Nguyjbirri and Jack Diamond Bandangala and Sydney Punjaub and Ruby)
12. Mailman Jack Libaninji (including his son Fred Carlton Gajangga, daughter Rosie and her daughter Betty Lloyd Jayinbalina, and son Ned Ngaragulanji and his children Bessie Holt and Colin Holt)
13. Rosie (including her daughter Lena Saville)
14. June Jacob
15. Opal

Some Notes

Nicholson River (Waanyi/Garawa) Land Claim (here)
Report by the Aboriginal Land Commissioner, Mr Justice Kearney, to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and to the Administrator of the Northern Territory Australian Government Publishing Service
Canberra 1985
[The Claim Book by David S. Trigger is available here .]

Bessie, Jimmy, Colin and Nettie Holt are the adopted children of Ned (Ngaragulanji).
A number of other people are mentioned in the Land Commissioner and Trigger Reports.
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14 comments:

  1. What do you know about Left Hand Charlie and his wife Lucy the was from Lawn Hill

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  2. Some references to a Lefthand Charlie as Tracker at Croydon in the 1920s but wife listed as Hannah.

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  3. what do you know about king dardy sisters ??

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  4. my great great great nan linda douglas (nee piggott) and her sister nan esme fisher (nee hayward) were waanyi from lawn hill. would you be able to find any realations we have heaps of oral and paperwork story but they conflicting

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  5. Was Jagijagi the daughter of Wirduga?

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  6. Item 4 in the original post does not give that impression -

    4. Wirduga (including her sons King Pedro and Fred Mangala), Yurumburinya, Gudurju, Jagijagi (including her children Left-hand Dick, King Darby, Violet Darby), Lagayi, and Brenda Munara (including her children Duncan Hogan, Julie Darby, Dan Darby, Clara Darby, Frank Hogan, Arthur Peterson)

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  7. So what is Jagijagi was Wirduga?

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  8. Perhaps you should contact the Native Title Claimants as they would be able to help.

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  9. Would you have any contact for them?

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  10. You could try contacting the National Native Title Tribunal at http://www.nntt.gov.au/Pages/Home-Page.aspx

    They may be able to help.

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  11. Is there any information of a lawn Hill station removals at all. Or any records of a station ran by a woman Carroll beetson at all

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  12. I have a Jack Diamond on my family tree along with a Emily Diamond with the name Garawa next to her name. Does anyone know anything about them?

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    1. Rockland on behalf of the Waanyi People v State of Queensland [2021] FCA 1139 (https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2021/2021fca1139)
      Mentions Smiler Diamond (including his children - Mick Diamond Nguyjbirri and Jack Diamond Bandangala and Sydney Punjaub and Ruby)

      There is also a Jack Diamond as follows
      Jack Diamond, born 1900 - 1904 Elizabeth Downs or Turn Off Lagoons
      Parents Billy Diamond and Nellie, wife is Bil (Bib) Lena
      Children are Percy, Wesley, Doris, Jervis, Berris, Michael, Anthony and Jackson

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  13. Is there any information on billy "smiler" diamond and his wife nellie/Nelly diamond ?

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