36 Facts About Yugambeh people

Archaeological evidence indicates Aboriginal Yugambeh people have occupied the area for tens of thousands of years.

The Yugambeh people territory is subdivided among clan groups with each occupying a designated locality, each clan having certain rights and responsibilities in relation to their respective areas.

Yugambeh refers to people descended from speakers of a range of dialects spoken in the Albert and Logan River basins of South Queensland, stretching over the area from the Gold Coast west to Beaudesert, while including the coastal area just over the border into New South Wales along the coast down to the Tweed Valley.

The Aboriginal Yugambeh people who lived in the area that became Queensland never used the name Bundjalung, and northern groups have maintained their dialect names.

Yugambeh people language is a dialect cluster of the wider Bandjalangic branch of the Pama–Nyungan language family.

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Yugambeh people was included in the Australian Standard Classification of Languages as Yugambeh people in 2016.

Linguistically, the Yugambeh people speak language varieties of the wider Yugambeh people-Bundjalung language group, their language forming a discrete dialect group.

Culturally researchers, like Anthony Jefferies, have noted the Yugambeh people have more affinity with their northern Yagara-speaking neighbours.

The Anthropologist Alfred William Howitt offers a brief traditional history of how the Yugambeh people, came to be subdivided into clans, stating that in consequence of internal feuds the nation became broken up into clans.

Jefferies, quoting Sutton, defines these large groups as sets of hundreds to few thousands Yugambeh people who intermarried each other regularly, shared many if not all of each other's languages, and whose countries tended to cover adjacent parts of a river drainage system,.

Archaeological evidence indicates that Aboriginal Yugambeh people have lived in the Gold Coast region for tens of thousands of years.

Yugambeh people camped on the banks of rivers and along the coast where plentiful resources provided a stable living.

Each Yugambeh people clan had their own allocated area of country, and domain over that area, it was typically where they hunted and lived.

The dolphin is known to have played an important role in a legend of the Nerang River Yugambeh people, according to which the culture hero Gowonda was transformed into one on his death.

Yugambeh people suffered from violent attacks undertaken by the Australian native police under their colonial leaders.

Yugambeh people was a Coomera black, but sometimes lived with the Albert and Nerang tribes.

Many Yugambeh people remained in their traditional country and found employment with farmers, oyster producers and fishermen, timber cutters and mills constructed for the production of resources like sugar and arrowroot.

Yugambeh people protested their removal from the lands of their fathers and mothers, with protests occurring from groups at Boonah, Beaudesert, Beenleigh and Southport.

At the advent of both world wars, Yugambeh people attempted to enlist but, like other Aboriginal Australians, had their efforts to join the armed forces resisted due to official policy that saw them as unsuitable because of their "racial origin".

Not all Aboriginal Yugambeh people moved to Ukerabagh by choice, some were sent there by local police to keep them away from white settlements.

The Yugambeh people, represented by the Kombumerri Aboriginal Corporation for Culture with the support and assistance from the Gold Coast City Council, erected a War Memorial on the site of the Jebribillum Bora Park Burleigh Heads at Burleigh Heads in 1991, now known as Jebribillum Bora Park.

The Yugambeh people Museum maintains records and research on Yugambeh people descendants who served in the armed forces.

Early colonial timber harvesting and cattle grazing devastated much of the wild- and plant life of the general area, which the Yugambeh people relied on for their sustenance, but plants and animals, such as the Brush-tailed rock-wallaby, the three-toed snake-tooth skink and the spotted-tail quoll in Guanaba escaped much of this early damage given the steepness of the escarpment, which made accessing its timber reserves very difficult.

From early 2015, three years before the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the Yugambeh people were involved with the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation's community consultation establishing a Yugambeh Elders Advisory Group consisting of nine local aunts and uncles.

The Games Mascot was named Borobi, a word from the local Yugambeh people language, meaning Koala; it was the first Australian sporting mascot to have an indigenous name, which was described as "a huge credit to our Elders and their work to revive language in everyday use", and "a powerful message to the rest of the world".

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Yugambeh people performers were present to respond to the Maori farewell ceremony.

Yugambeh people culture was incorporated into the Queens Baton with the use of native macadamia wood, known in Yugambeh people language as gumburra.

Yugambeh people's planted them when she walked with her dad, and as an adult she saw them bearing fruit.

Traditional Yugambeh people diet consisted of flora and fauna native to their region, almost anything that could be eaten was, though certain species were avoided for totemic reasons.

Yugambeh people'slters were made from a light frame covered in sheets of bark tied down with rope; native ginger leaves were used in hut making and paperbark bark was used to thatch the roofs.

Yugambeh people taught them their laws about the kippara, and about marriage and food.

Yugambeh people are the descendants of the brother Yarberri who travelled to the north.

Migunberri Yugambeh people have a story of two men, Balugan and Nimbin, and their hunting dingoes, Burrajan, a male, and Ninerung, a female, whose adventures in chasing a kangaroo from Mt Widgee to the Ilbogan lagoon, mention the location of many djurebil or sacred personal or increase sites, and form the background for explaining the geological features of mountain formations along the McPherson Range.

Yugambeh people believe that Yabirri taught them their laws of marriage.

Yugambeh people musicians incorporated western instruments into their songs, such as the accordion and guitar.

Candace Kruger, a Yugambeh people yarabilgingan, has been active in creating and teaching a youth choir whose main objectives are to sing and learn the Yugambeh people Language.