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Gidhabal

Indigenous Australian tribe

Summary

Indigenous Australian tribe

The Gidhabal, also known as Kitabal and Githabul, are an Aboriginal Australian people of southern Queensland, who inhabited an area in south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales, now within the Southern Downs, Tenterfield and Kyogle Local Government regions.

Language

The Gidhabal people's language is called Gidhabal. It is variety of the Condamine-Upper Clarence language, a dialect cluster of the wider Bundjalungic branch of Pama–Nyungan language family, though the Githabul dislike calling their language Bundjalung as a descriptor of their speech.

Country

According to Norman Tindale, the Githabul people owned over some 1,700 mi2 of territory, which lay around the headwaters of the Clarence, Richmond, and Logan rivers on the Great Dividing Range. He adds that it extended from Killarney to Urbenville, Woodenbong, Unumgar (Nganamgah), and Tooloom. at Rathdowney and about Spicer Gap. Tindale placed its southern reaches near the vicinity of Tabulam and Drake.

Social organisation

R. H. Mathews stayed with the Githabul in 1898 and picked up the following information concerning their social divisions, which were fourfold.

CycleMotherFatherSonDaughter
KarrpiyanBarranganDyerwainBandyoorBandyooran
BandyooranBundaBarrangBarrangan
TiyatyiDyerwainganBarrangBundaBundagan
BundaganBandyoorDyerwainDyerwaingan

Native title

In September 1995 Githabul legal scholar Trevor Close, on behalf of his people, lodged a native title claim for 140,600 ha in the Kyogle, Woodenbong and Tenterfield areas in northeast New South Wales and in Queensland, south of Rathdowney. Justice Catherine Branson of the Federal Court of Australia, on 29 November 2007, made a consent determination recognising their non-exclusive native title rights and interests over 1,120 km2 in nine national parks and 13 state forests in northern New South Wales.

In May 2021 the Githabul peoples lodged a Native Title claim (Waringh Waringh) over much of the former Warwick Shire within the Southern Downs Regional Council area of Queensland.

Alternative names

  • Kidabal, Kidjabal, Kit(t)a-bool, Kittabool, Kitabool, Kitapul
  • Gidabul, Gidjoobal
  • Kuttibul
  • Noowidal

Notable people

  • Frank Roberts (1945–2011), boxer, one of three first Indigenous Australians to participate in the Olympics, in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

References

Citations

Sources

  • {{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia
  • {{Cite book| title = The middle Clarence dialects of Bandjalang | author-link = Terry Crowley
  • {{Cite web| title = Githabul People's native title determination North-eastern New South Wales
  • {{Cite news| title = Githabul People's native title recognised in NSW
  • {{Cite journal | title = Initiation ceremonies of some Queensland tribes | author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews
  • {{Cite journal | title = Divisions of Queensland aborigines | author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews
  • {{Cite journal | title = Notes on the aborigines of the Northern Territory, Western Australia, and Queensland | author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews
  • {{Cite news| title = Tribe on a high as heartland won back | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121228191737/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/tribe-on-a-high-as-heartland-won-back/story-e6frg6oo-1111114389921
  • {{Cite news| title = Aborigines in big land claim win
  • {{Cite journal | title = Bundjalung Settlement and Migration
  • {{Cite book| title = An Introduction to the Yugambeh-Bundjalung Language and its Dialects | edition = 4th
  • {{Cite book| chapter = Kitabal (NSW) | author-link = Norman Tindale | chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/kitabal.htm

References

  1. "Gidhabal (E14)".
  2. Smith, Matthew. (1 March 2025). "Indigenous boxer and Olympian fought for his country, but battled for respect and recognition".
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