Lardil people
The Lardil people, who prefer to be known as Kunhanaamendaa (meaning people of Kunhanhaa, the traditional name for
Language
Ecology and lifestyle
Rockwall
People raised within the
Christian mission
With the exception of
Dormitory system
Hall was succeeded by the Rev. Wilson, who imposed a dormitory system, segregating children from their elders and thus breaking the chain of tradition through which tribal lore and law was transmitted.
Self-government
The population of the island is no longer exclusively Lardil, after several tribal groups, among them the Kaiadilt, were relocated by missionaries from Bentinck Island.[8]
The Mornington Island Mission was substituted by a community administration in 1978.[14] The Shire council in the 1970s introduced a beer canteen, government developmental funds were seen as allowing one to dispense with the necessity to work, and, as alcoholism spread, the Mornington Island peoples began to rank among the communities with the highest rate of suicide in Australia. Interpersonal violence was common,[9] including domestic violence; a few young white women have formed relationships with island youths and moved to the island, to find that their boyfriend's behaviour changed and their anticipated idyll close to nature did not materialize. "They usually departed after their first "proper good hiding" and invariably by the second".[17]
Mornington Island, with its schools, churches, libraries and hospitals, is often presented as a model community to outsiders. However, by 2003 its society and its people had been devastated by alcohol.
Alternative names
- Kunhanaamendaa, as the people themselves prefer to be called, meaning the people of Kunhanhaa; they refer to the language only as Lardil.[1]
According to Tindale:[20]
- Lardi:i (typo)
- Laierdila
- Ladil
- Kunana (name for Mornington Island)
- Kuna'na
- Gunana
- Mornington Island tribe
- Kare-wa (dialect name according to Walter Roth)
Notable people
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Bond 2004.
- ^ Evans 2007, p. 26.
- ^ Evans 2007, p. 33.
- ^ Evans 2007, pp. 33–34.
- ^ Alpher 1993, p. 102.
- ^ Memmott 2007, p. 68.
- ^ Clarke 2011, p. 12.
- ^ a b c d e f McKnight 2003, p. 1.
- ^ a b McKnight 2003, p. 2.
- ^ a b c d Scambary 2013, p. 40.
- ^ a b Finger 2012, pp. 195–197.
- ^ Rolls & Johnson 2010, p. 119.
- ^ Trigger 1992, p. 25.
- ^ a b Scambary 2013, p. 41.
- ^ Jacobs 2009, p. 314.
- ^ Trigger 1992, p. 74.
- ^ McKnight 2003, p. 225.
- ^ "Island dry for two decades 'months' from opening tavern to combat home-brew". ABC News. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ^ "Bob Katter calls for market garden on Mornington Island". The North West Star. 12 March 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 179.
- ^ Donovan 2014, pp. 278ff.
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- Bond, Hilary (March 2004). 'We're the mob you should be listening to': Aboriginal Elders talk about community-school relationships on Mornington Island (PDF) (PhD thesis). James Cook University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 August 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
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