Jagera
The Jagera, also written Yaggera or Yuggera, is a tribe of Australian Aboriginal people which inhabited the region southwest of the city of Brisbane (including Ipswich) before European settlement of Australia. They are one of the traditional custodians of the land over which much of Brisbane is built.[1]
Language
Jagera/Yaggera is classified as belonging to the Durubalic subgroup of the Pama–Nyungan languages, but is also treated as the general name for the languages of the Brisbane area of which Turrbal is then considered a dialect.[2] The Australian English word 'yakka' (loosely meaning 'work', as in 'hard yakka') came from the Jagera language (yaga, 'strenuous work').[3]
Country
The Jagera-related peoples inhabited the territories from Moreton Bay to the Bremer River, the Jagera or Ugarapul or Yugararpal, as a distinct group being concentrated in the Fassifern and Lockyer Creek areas. To their north were Wakka and Gubbi Gubbi peoples and the Bundjalung people bordered them on the south.[4]
Place names
- Meebatboogan, Mount Greville, Moogerah Peaks National Park.
- Cooyinnirra, Mount Mitchell, Main Range National Park.
- Booroongapah, Flinders Peak, Teviot Range.
- Ginginbaar, Mount Blaine, Teviot Range.
Notable people
- Neville Bonner, former Australian senator, was a Jagera tribal elder.[5]
- Jeannie Bell, Australian linguist.[6]
- Faye Carr, 2017 National NAIDOC Awards Winner Female Elder of the Year[7][8][9]
- Latia Schefe, 2017 National NAIDOC Awards Winner Youth of the Year[7][10][9]
- Susan, originally Bunjoey, daughter of Moonpago.[11][12]
Notes and references
Notes
- ↑ Meadows 2001, p. 25, n.51.
- ↑ Dixon, Ramson & Thomas 2006, p. 42.
- ↑ Dixon, Ramson & Thomas 2006, p. 209.
- ↑ Steele 2015, p. 85.
- ↑ Rolls & Johnson 2010, p. 38.
- ↑ Russo 2015, p. 215.
- 1 2 Queenslanders Honoured at National NAIDOC Awards.
- ↑ NITV.
- 1 2 Zhou 2017.
- ↑ ABC News 2017.
- ↑ The Courier-Mail 1947, p. 2.
- ↑ The Telegraph 1936, p. 11.
References
- Bell, Edin (1946). Legends of the Coochin Valley. Bunyip Press – via Trove.
- Dixon, R. M. W.; Ramson, W.S.; Thomas, Mandy (2006). Australian Aboriginal Words in English: Their Origin and Meaning (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-54073-4.
- "Last of Her Tribe-- Ugaraphul Princess Buried At Coochin". The Telegraph. 30 May 1936. p. 11. Retrieved 19 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- Meadows, Michael (2001). Voices in the Wilderness: Images of Aboriginal People in the Australian Media. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31566-4.
- "Mills takes out Person of the Year at NAIDOC Awards". ABC News. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- "Queenslanders Honoured at National NAIDOC Awards". Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- Rolls, Mitchell; Johnson, Murray (2010). Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-810-87475-6.
- Russo, Katherine E. (2015). "Semantic Change: Intersubjectivity and Social Knowledge in the Sydney Morning Herald". In Calabrese, Rita; Chambers, J. K.; Leitner, Gerhard. Variation and Change in Postcolonial Contexts. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 209–227. ISBN 978-1-443-88493-8.
- Steele, John Gladstone (2015). Aboriginal Pathways: in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-702-25742-1.
- "This Week'S Book Reviews". The Courier-Mail (3168). Brisbane. 18 January 1947. p. 2. Retrieved 19 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- "This Yuggera Grandmother of 47 scores Female Elder of the year award at NAIDOC". NITV. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- Zhou, Naaman (1 July 2017). "Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winners". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 July 2017.