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he Indjalandji-Dhidhanu People have lived in the wider Camooweal area since their Dreaming ancestors formed the landscape and imbued it with its natural and cultural features. Contemporary archaeological evidence confirms that Aboriginal people have occupied this area for an extended period—estimated by scientists as many tens of thousands of years—prior to the first contact with Europeans in the early 1860s. Prior to European settlement of the region, the Georgina River and its tributaries and waterholes in the vicinity of Camooweal, including the adjacent park area, were favoured locations for long-term camping, and bases for hunting and gathering activities by Aboriginal groups from throughout the surrounding desert and semi-desert areas. The Georgina River formed part of a major Aboriginal trade route— running north-south across the country—in which the Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people and their tribal neighbours participated. Along this route, materials and resources were exchanged as part of the regional Aboriginal economy, and ceremonies to sustain the society’s socio-political and religious life were conducted. The Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people today continue to observe and uphold their traditional laws and customs. According to their traditional law, Wiliyan-ngurru National Park is associated with and traversed by a number of Dreamings (routes travelled by the ancestral spirits who shaped, and now inhabit, the landscape at key locations). The Dreamings within the park form part of a complex array of sites of significance to the Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people. These sites include the caves and waterholes, a number of burial sites, numerous camping and ceremony sites and many quarry sites for the manufacture of stone tools. Source: parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/wiliyan-ngurru-camooweal-caves...

According to the research, these children were most likely belonging to the Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people who lived in the wider Camooweal area/district since their Dreaming ancestors formed the landscape and enriched it with natural and cultural features.

Hi Vesna verencevic. What year was this taken ? Cos I'm going to ask other people about this picture and will get a different response. One person already said this picture not ever taken in camooweal. And those children are not from indjilandji dhidhanu.😃 Someone said it's a stolen picture and copy as and for indjilandji people. I will probably found this picture in other history. Website and books.

Christine Dunne Christine, The image location and estimated date was identified by the State Library of Queensland, not Vesna. Unfortunately we have over several thousand First Nations photographs that have limited and incorrect information, which is why we are opening them up for clients to view. If you can tell me more information on this and other images, I would greatly appreciate it and add your updates to our One Search library catalogue .

From 1905 the Barambah Aboriginal Settlement (from 1934 Cherbourg) in the South Burnett, first established in 1901, came under complete government control and operation. It was considered a more successful venture and gave the government confidence to establish more Aboriginal settlements.[1][5][8][9] By segregating Aboriginal people from the rest of the community, the removals process was highly effective in fulfilling the government's objectives of increased control and regulation of the state's Aboriginals, enforced on settlements through a range of administrative and disciplinary measures. While humanitarian concerns were used as a justification for removal by advocates of the reserve system, Aboriginal people were forcibly removed for a wider range of reasons including illness; lack of employability or refusal to work; old age; as punishment; and after a jail sentence had been served.[20] While many groups had already been moved off their traditional land and were residing in fringe camps at settlements and stations, the removals program further severed many Queensland Aboriginals' capacity to maintain connections to country and traditional customary practices. Social and family networks were also profoundly altered, with children taken from their parents, wives from husbands and families split up and sent to different reserves.[1] Source: www.wikiwand.com/en/Taroom_Aboriginal_Settlement

EDUCATION. Modern aids in the shape of 16-m.m. film projectors have been in operation at Cherbourg and Palm Island schools for some years and, realising the value of visual education, particularly in the case of aboriginal children, who readily absorb learning by sight, it is intended to equip all schools with machines of this type. Already arrangements are in hand to provide a machine for Woorabinda school. The films, which are obtained through the Department of Education Library, are apart from general school subjects, geographical, industrial, horticultural, pastoral, agricultural and depict bird and animal life. Apart from their educational value, they are the means of giving the native children an insight of the activities proceeding in the outside world. Manual Training and Domestic Science.— Under the manual training scheme, boys of the senior grades receive tuition in cabinet-making, carpentry, plumbing, tinsmithing, saddlery, while the older girls are taught cooking, sewing, and general domestic science. In 1949 at Mornington Island there were 104 Aboriginal children enrolled in education: 55 girls and 49 boys. Source: Native Affairs—Information contained in Report of Director of Native Affairs for the Twelve Months ended 30th June, 1950. aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/digitised_collect...