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GoogleMapsStreetView (from Clark Island also) 2014 - goo.gl/maps/PhMCVmvxu175mwqSA

10/5/18 This house exists beautifully at the corner of Main and Gates Streets.

Ancient traditions Yarrabah is the traditional country of the Gunggandji and Mandingalbay Yidinji people. These people had traditional beliefs and values different from those we have today. They were guided by Buleru, ancestral spirits who gave us our cultural law, belief system, and creation stories and followed a defined social structure and kinship system. Our people were hunters and gatherers, and the surrounding rainforest and beachside traditional lands around Cape Grafton provided food in abundance. Dwellings were made from material found within the environment, the structure dependent on wet season or dry season needs. The lands we occupy are ancient. Our people have a connection to the country stretching back into the dream time. Our local customs and traditions, continue today and our people continue their responsibilities as custodians of the land. Source: www.gyhsac.org.au/site/user-assets/Yarrabah%20Community%2...

Living Conditions: Dormitories were where children from the age of 10 lived Under the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 children were started to be taken from their parents and kept in these dormitories In the early 1900s the church created unpaid work for all of the residents at the mission which was compulsory Children worked in agriculture to supply food Businesses from Cairns also used the Aboriginals for cheap labor in local industries including coffee and sugar farming 'We never had any choices back in those days. We was told to do what we had to do. It wasn't a good place to live. It was very difficult' Eric Bell a Nugunnawal elder 'We never had any choices back in those days. We were told to do what we had to do. It wasn't a good place to live. It was very difficult' Eric Bell a Nugunnawal elder Children used to hide in shrubs and bushy areas to hide from the government people when they came around The point of missions was to protect the Aboriginal people of the surrounding area Their goal was also to 'Christianize' the Aboriginal people At the time many people didn’t like them because they wanted their own land the colonial government responded by setting up reserves or stations Aboriginal people who heavily restricted to their land and freedom The reserves had their own machinery and the Aboriginals were forced to crop and look after livestock Devastating things went on at the missions such as disease, pastoral expansion, and conflict. Source: yarrabahlife.weebly.com/yarrabah-mission.html