Kuku Yalanji People and the Daintree

Kuku Yalanji People and the Daintree
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‘Welcome to Kuku Yalanji country.The area you are travelling through hasgreat spiritual and cultural significance to our people’ **
The Tribal Group

The entire Daintree-Cape Tribulation/Bloomfield region is a small part of the Kuku Yalanji tribal area. As a whole, this extends from Mossman in the south to Annan River in the north and as far west as Laura and Palmer River. The Kuku Yalanji people are a single tribal group as distinct from the neighbouring Kuku Yimidhirr to the north and Jabugay/Yirrigandji to the south.

The groups to the east of the range associated with the rainforest environment are more commonly referred to as Eastern Kuku Yalanji. They have a single language with slight dialect variations according to various sub-groups. These larger nations consist of smaller, geographically bound clan estates whose ownership and use rights are passed through the male line. These family estates are essentially a complex network of sites of religious, resource or other practical significance, along with the lands and resources between them.

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