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Yir-Yoront

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The Yir-Yoront, also known as the Yir Yiront, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula now living mostly in Kowanyama (''kawn yamar'' or 'many waters') but also in Lirrqar/Pormpuraaw, both towns outside their traditional lands. [1]

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Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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ǃKung people

The !Kung are a part of the San people who live in the Kalahari desert and Ovamboland (northern Namibia and southern Angola).

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Djabugay

The Djabugay people (also known as Djabuganydji or Tjapukai) are a group of Australian Aborigines who are the original inhabitants of mountains, gorges, lands and waters of a richly forested part of the Great Dividing Range including the Barron Gorge and surrounding areas within the Wet Tropics of Queensland.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Francis Lascelles Jardine

Francis Lascelles (Frank) Jardine (28 August 1841 – 1919) was an Australian pioneer associated with the exploration and settlement of Far North Queensland.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Jan Carstenszoon

Jan Carstenszoon or more commonly Jan Carstensz was a 17th-century Dutch explorer.

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Kokopera

The Kokopera, also written Koko Bera, are an indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of Northern Queensland.

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Kowanyama, Queensland

Kowanyama is a town on the Gulf of Carpentaria side of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Lauriston Sharp

Lauriston Sharp (March 24, 1907 – December 31, 1993) was a Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University.

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Marshall Sahlins

Marshall David Sahlins (born December 27, 1930) is an American anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory.

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Mitchell River (Queensland)

The Mitchell River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Norman Tindale

Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.

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Northeast Pama–Nyungan languages

Northeast Pama–Nyungan, or Pama–Maric, is a hypothetical language family consisting of the following neighboring branches of the Pama–Nyungan family of Australian languages.

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Oceania (journal)

Oceania is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1930.

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Oceanic Linguistics

Oceanic Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia, including the indigenous Australian languages, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family.

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Olkola

The Olkolo or Koko-olkola' were an Indigenous Australian people of central and eastern Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.

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Pama–Nyungan languages

The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of indigenous Australian languages, containing perhaps 300 languages.

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Pormpuraaw, Queensland

Pormpuraaw is an Aboriginal community situated on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula approximately halfway between Karumba and Weipa on the Edward River.

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Robert Heilbroner

Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought.

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Somerset, Queensland

Somerset is a locality split between the Shire of Torres and the Northern Peninsula Area Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Thaayorre

The Thaayorre, or Kuuk Thaayore, are an Australian people living on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, primarily in the settlement Pormpuraaw, having its foundation in the Edward River Mission.

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Totem

A totem (Ojibwe doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe.

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Trobriand Islands

The Trobriand Islands are a archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea.

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University of Hawaii Press

The University of Hawaii Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiokinai.

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University of Queensland Press

Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house.

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University of Toronto Press

The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian scholarly publisher and book distributor founded in 1901.

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Uw Oykangand

The Uw Oykangand, otherwise known as the Kwantari, are an Indigenous Australian people living on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia.

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Voyage of the Pera and Arnhem to Australia in 1623

The Pera and Arnhem were two ships from the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Companie or VOC) that explored the north Australian coast in 1623.

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William Edward Hanley Stanner

William Edward Hanley "Bill" Stanner CMG (24 November 19058 October 1981) was an Australian anthropologist who worked extensively with Indigenous Australians.

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Yir-Yoront language

Yir-Yoront was a Paman language spoken in two settlements, Kowanyama and Pormpuraaw on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, by the Yir-Yoront people.

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Jir Joront, Jir-Joront, Yir Yiront, Yir Yoront, Yir-Yiront, Yir-Yoront people, Yirr Yoront, Yirr-Yoront.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yir-Yoront

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