Yadhaykenu
The Yadhaykenu, otherwise known as the Jathaikana or Yadhaigana, are an
Language
The
Country
The Yadhaykenu had, in Norman Tindale's estimation, some 300 square miles (780 km2) of territory southwards from the Escape River to the vicinity of Orford Ness.[4] This covers the area extending from Escape River to Pudding Pan Hill in the Cape York Peninsula. Their numbers at the time of contact with colonial pastoralists who took over their land in the 1860s has been estimated to range between 1,500 and 1,600.[5]
History
The Yadhaigana were traditional enemies of the
British marines stationed at Somerset were withdrawn in 1868, and native troopers under Henry Chester set about dispersing the local tribes with terror tactics, punitive forays, and by adopting methods such as inciting one tribe against another. The young men and women were subject to Blackbirding in order to obtain slave labour on pearling boats. Two Anglican missionaries present Rev F Jagg and William Kennett wrote on protest at the shocking conditions the tribes were subject to, only to be speedily removed.[9] Internecine hostilities, already frequent,[10] flared between the Yadhaigana and their Gumakudin neighbours as settlement expanded,[11] and eventually the latter were absorbed by the former. Within three decades of settlement, of the estimated 3,000 Aborigines belonging to the three tribes, only a 100 remained.
After the shattering of the traditional east-coast tribal groupings and their dispersal, many remnants of each group intermarried and a new more collective identity was formed at
Native title
In 2008 the
Alternative names
- Induyamo
- Yadaigan
- Yaldaigan
- Yandigan
- Yaraidyana
- Yaraikana
- Yaraikanna, Yaraikkanna
- Yarakino
- Yardaikan
- Yarudolaiga (exonym, correct form Yařadaigalai).
- Yathaikeno
Source: Tindale 1974, p. 170
Notes
Citations
- ^ Crowley 1983, p. 307.
- ^ Harper 2016, p. 410.
- ^ Dixon 2002, p. xxxi.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 170.
- ^ Sharp 1992, pp. 15, 27.
- ^ a b c Sharp 1992, p. 15.
- ^ Sharp 1992, p. 27.
- ^ Lack 1972.
- ^ Sharp 1992, pp. 27–28.
- ^ Bayton 1965, pp. 622–633.
- ^ Sharp 1992, pp. 15?.
- ^ Vlasic 2014.
- ^ Condon 2017.
Sources
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- Condon, Turi (10 March 2017). "Deal seals bright future in Top End". The Australian.
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- Harper, Helen (2016). "The story of Old Man Frank: a narrative response to questions about language shift in northern Cape York Peninsula". In Verstraete, Jean-Christophe; Hafner, Diane (eds.). Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country. ISBN 978-9-027-26760-3.
- Lack, Clem (1972). "Jardine, Francis Lascelles (Frank) (1841–1919)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. Melbourne University Press.
- Mathew, R. H. (1900). "Some tribes of Cape York Peninsula". Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 34: 131–135.
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- Parker, K. Langloh (1905). The Euahlayi tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia (PDF). A. Constable & Co.
- Ray, Sydney H. (1907). Linguistics (PDF). Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. pp. 264–283, 504–528.
- Sharp, Nonie (1992). Footprints Along the Cape York Sandbeaches. ISBN 978-0-855-75230-9.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- Vlasic, Kimberley (30 October 2014). "680,000ha of northern Cape York handed back to traditional owners from the Atampaya, Gudang Yadhaykenu and Seven Rivers Angkamuth Peoples". The Cairns Post.