Qualla: Djabugay https://qualla.com/djabugay en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/p/2/djabugay-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Djabugay https://qualla.com/djabugay Djabugay: Introduction https://qualla.com/djabugay/ Photo credit Bgabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Look at the curve of the Barron River as it winds through the Redlynch Valley below Kuranda, and you are looking at a body. To the Djabugay, those contours are Damarri lying on his back, one of the ancestral brothers who shaped this country at the beginning of things. This is not metaphor. For the Djabugay people, the rainforest of the Barron Gorge is the work and the proof of the ancestral beings, and the land is the law made visible.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/p/2/djabugay-wp/rjp2-djabugay-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Djabugay: The Time Called Bulurru https://qualla.com/djabugay/ Photo credit Bgabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Djabugay word for the ancestral times is bulurru. In bulurru the Rainbow Serpent Gudju Gudju moved through the country in the form of a great carpet snake, Budadji, trading with families along the way, dilly bags for coastal shells, and his body carving the landscape as he we...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/p/2/djabugay-wp/rjp2-djabugay-the-time-called-bulurru.mp3 0:06 2 full Djabugay: A Language of the Rainforest https://qualla.com/djabugay/ Photo credit Hesperian, CC BY-SA 3.0. Djabugay belongs to the Yidinic branch of the great Pama-Nyungan language family, closely related to neighbouring Yidiny. It carries an unusual distinction: it is one of only three Aboriginal languages, alongside Bandjalang and Maung, known to lack a grammatical dual form. The la...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/p/2/djabugay-wp/rjp2-djabugay-a-language-of-the-rainforest.mp3 0:06 3 full Djabugay: The Land Taken https://qualla.com/djabugay/ Photo credit Bgabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. The coming of the settlers was catastrophic. From the late 1870s, parties moved into Djabugay country clearing land for gold and tin, and the colonial record uses the word dispersal, a euphemism that hid the killing of Aboriginal people behind a clean bureaucratic term. There wer...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/p/2/djabugay-wp/rjp2-djabugay-the-land-taken.mp3 0:06 4 full Djabugay: Holding the Country https://qualla.com/djabugay/ Photo credit Bgabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. And yet the Djabugay endured. The musician David Hudson, a Djabugay man of Kuranda, carried Djabugay sound and the didgeridoo to audiences around the world. The deepest vindication came on 17 December 2004, when the Federal Court recognised that native title still existed for the...

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