How long have the Butchulla people lived on Fraser Island?

How long have the Butchulla people lived on Fraser Island?

The Butchulla people are the Traditional Owners of K’gari (Fraser Island). For more than 5000 years, perhaps as many as 50,000 years, Butchulla people lived in harmony with the seasons and the land and sea, maintaining a balance between spiritual, social and family connections.

What did the Butchulla people eat?

seafood
The Butchulla diet comprised mainly seafood. Fish were scoop-netted, trapped or speared after a lookout had sighted a school. Wongs (or pipi), a shellfish dug from the sand below the high tide mark, was also a favourite food.

What does the word K Gari mean?

paradise
It’s unique in more ways than one and holds a special place in the heart of her traditional owners, the Butchulla people. The island that we know to be Fraser Island was originally known as K’gari, which is its traditional name. Named by its people thousands of years ago, K’gari means ‘paradise’.

What happened to the aboriginals on Fraser Island?

The last Aborigines left the island in 1904 when the Aboriginal mission at Bogimbah was closed. They were transported to Yarrabah near Cairns and Durundur near Caboolture. There are now only a handful of surviving descendants of the Fraser Island Butchulla people.

Why is Fraser Island called kgari?

K’gari was the name chosen by the Butchulla because that is the sky spirit the island was created from. The name goes back to the very creation of the island, and yet the name that stuck was the name of a woman who spent not more than two months on the island.

What is the Aboriginal word for paradise?

K’gari
K’gari, pronounced “gurri” and meaning paradise, is what the Butchulla people have always called the island, derived from its Dreamtime creation story.

Is kyogle a Bundjalung?

The area of Kyogle, a name derived from Kaiou gal (the place of the plain turkey), was settled by the Bundjalung people, whose territory was wide and who had adapted to the environment over countless generations.

How do you pronounce Turrbal?

(Turrbal is pronounced Tur-a-bul. Jagera is pronounced differently according to accent. Both Yug-er-a and Jug-er-a are acceptable).

What is the Aboriginal word for fire?

yau yee
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