Talk:Kowanyama, Queensland

Improving Citations

Herewith, early & intial listing of possible references/citations to use to upgrade this article .. as tagged/requested:

General

• [1]Queensland Partnerships' Indicators Information and report on Kownyama

This includes lists of services, description of event and activities during 2008, including hospital statistics and offence rates and other such info.

Indigenous Traditions

• [2] Lauriston Sharp's 1952 Article on the Yir Yoront (being peoples of the Kowanyama area) modelling 'traditional' social structure, politics and economy

• [3] Overview report on indigenous ways of knowing .. including reference to Strang and her whole of way of being and doing analysis vs local pastoralists .. about decade old.

Settlement History

• [4] Queensland Government page including brief Kowanyama history

includes Anglican Mission history, Department history, and DOGIT hisotry/ dates.

• [5] Photographic collection depicting cattle station life in and around Kownyama

includes details of places and names of peoples

• [6] Details of the naming of Kowanyama .. including reference to it's meaning (to cite within text?)

Community Justice Group

• [7] Aust Institute of Crim Summary History of Kowanyama Community Justice Group .. confirming and verfying it's effectiveness particularly in dealing with juvenile crime
• [8] Early history and reference to the Kowanyama Community Justice group Accessed 22 January 2009

This is a reference discussing the group over a decade ago .. yet does give some early history, describing the rationale for such group, the role of community corrections officers, and necessary independence of the group etc

• [9] Further 1997 reference to Kowanyama community justice group as Department of Community Corrections pilot Accessed 22 January 2009

While brief reference, this is a social justice commissioner report lauding the benefits of the community jusitice process .. particularly in relation to local conflict and potential juvenile offences etc (some brief figures included)

• [10] 2004 update on community justice groups in North Queensland .. from original pilots (including Kowanyama) through to > 40 groups and legislative powers.Accessed 22 January 2009

Names the 2002 legislation under which Community Justice Groups including Kowanyama obtained state based legislative powers etc

Environment/Natural Resources

• [11] Full article on the Kowanyama Land and Natural Resource Management Agency including it's purpose etc
• [12] Regarding local environment .. and natural resource management .. Crimson Finch Accessed 22 January 2009

Ecology contains description of pandanus/grass habitat, relevance of fire hisotry, descriptions of the Magnificent and Mitchell River riparian forests etc .. including rubber vine infestations, changing fire regimes etc

• [13] Map giving Rural Firebrigade's Bushfire Risk Assessment for Kowanyama area.Accessed 25 January 2009
• [14] Paper regarding Kowanyama natural reource management agency successful engagement with Department of Fisheries .. Accessed 22 January 2009
• [15] Paper by anthropologist describing the Kowanyama Land and Sea Management Agency initiative]

This article gives reference to early local self-governance history and intiative by Aboriginal community to take primary role for management of local natural resources (particularly fisheries) .. an initiative that challenges wider Cape York Land Use and other more regional/ state level initiatives.

• [16] CSIRO Report assessing climate change impacts and health risks for 'remote' Aboriginal communities including Kowanyama

Nore .. includes estimated temperature and precipitation increases for Kowyama etc

• [17] Transcription for Kowanyama sea level rise & climate change video

• [18] Kowanyama artists, also involved in the Indigenous Enviroment Foundation battling over the future management of Cape York, insist and seek to show that future environmental management will be best managed with traditional knowledge (by traditional owners?)

Indigenous Knowledge Centre

• [19] Queensland State Library's Indigenous Knowledge Centre initiative, including for Kowanyama.. Accessed 22 January 2009

Land Tenure and Home Ownership

• [20] Aboriginal Household survey .. exploring Aboriginal home ownership particularly on Aboriginal Deeds of Grants in Trust Accessed 22 January 2009

includes Kownyama household survey, being rare Aboriginal DOGIT community which did have perpetual leases issued back in 1980's ..a history that may be of interest/ worth referencing?!

• [21] Monaghan, James (2005) ‘Our Way': social space and the geography of land allocation practice on the southern Gulf Lowlands of Cape York Peninsula. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

"This thesis reviews the geography of land allocation practice in Pormpuraaw and Kowanyama. The two communities are adjacent to each other on the southern Gulf Lowlands of Cape York Peninsula and their Aboriginal residents share many ties of kinship, though since their establishment in the earlier years of the 20th century they have had differing experiences of church mission and then State administration of their affairs."

Local Governance

• [22] Chapter of Mark Moran's PhD Thesis reviewing literature and history of Kowanyama local governance and applying local governance analytical model

Appears to include a lot of substantial information on Kownyama community, and many aspects of the community including housing groups, community justice groups etc ..a valuable on-line reference

• [23] 2007 Paper that uses Kowyanyama as a case study for exploring, modelling, and better understanding 'interethnic' local governance .. and the mechanics of Aboriginal self-governance/ self-determination Accessed 22 January 2009

This paper lists the number of organisations involved in the 'governance' and/or delivery of public services within Kowyama .. including all of the Land Management Office, P&C, Community Justice Group etc .. though notes the predominance of non-indigenous resident employees in key decision making positions etc

State School

• [24] Kowanyama State School's web page

enrolment numbers and details of Kowanyama school for 2006, including advice that students are encouraged to go to boarding school for high school education .. though a combined year 8,9, & 10 divided by gender, does seem to be offered!

• [25]Tania Major (Young Australian of the Year) speech regarding education at Kowanyama; also [26] Article verifying achievment and 2007 Young Australian of the year status

Tania Major might also constitute a 'reknown' person from Kowanyama .. having since also become a Youth UN ambassador etc .. otherwise article also describe general faciliaties and level of support in Kowanyama

Bruceanthro (talk) 05:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Chronology Notes for Kowanyama history

Herwith is a 'growing' chronology of Kowanyama's history .. being compiled with citing .. to assist upgrade article's history section.

• 1845: Leichardt expedition into the lower Gulf region (which includes Mitchell River delta - Kowanyama area) meets with local Aboriginal resistance and there is one fatality (M pg 61)

• 1860's: Gulf lowlands including Michell River delta area are first mapped and surveyed (M pg 61)

• 1864: the 'Battle of the Mitchell River' occurs when local Aboriginal peoples in the lower Mitchell River area resist the Jardine Brothers on their journey northwards to Sommerset (tip of Cape York) along the wst coast

• 1889: non-Aboriginal peoples petitioned Queensland government to establish native title mounted police regiment at Higbury pastoral lease .. and this pastoral lease plus Dunbar pastoral lease (surrounding Kowanyama area) became 'bridgeheads' for suppressing Aboriginal resitance

• 1890's: first non-Aboriginal pastoralists start to colonise the lower Mitchell River (Kowanyama) area .. significantly impacting and reducing local Aboriginal populations

• 1903: Bishop Gilbert White reports that Anglican church has applied for 500 wsq miles of Mitchell River delta to become a mission .. being an area that he believes to hold one of Queensland's largest, most dense populations of Aboriginal peoples still largely untouched by 'civilization' (M pg 60)

Bishop Gilbert White (then Minister at Yarrabah, Queensland Aboriginal reserve) persuades Queensland Government to set up mission between the Mitchell and Nassau Rivers under the Protection of Aboriginals and Prevention of the Sale of Opium Act 1997 .. (M pg 61)

• 1905: Gilbert White establishes mission on on the coast, at Topsy Creek (Tasbanaman)

• 1911: Mission is relocated to site of present day Kowanyama in order to obtain a more reliable fresh water supply

• 1930's: Gilbert White and John Chapman have established mission at site of present day Kowanyama, and third of the Aboriginal population local to the area were living in the mission (M pg 67)

• 1935: Mitchell River area (present day Kowanyama) estimated to hold an Aboriginal population of approx 700 people (M pg 60)

• 1964: Mitchell River Mission is devastated by cyclone Dora, sweeping away it's cabbage palm thatch shelters, gardens, and orchards .. ending what is now referred to as Mission Time or Cabbage Palm days (M pg 68)

• 1967: Following cyclone Dora and reconstruction of the mission (end of Cabbage Palm shelters etc) responsibility and title to the reserve is transferred from the Anglican Church to the State

Bruceanthro (talk) 14:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)