26-499: Rossville is the name of the following towns: Australia Rossville, Queensland , a town and locality in the Shire of Cook Canada Rossville, Manitoba United States Rossville, Georgia Rossville, Illinois Rossville, Indiana Rossville, Iowa Rossville, Kansas Rossville, Maryland Rossville, Missouri Rossville, Staten Island , New York,
52-478: A neighborhood in New York City Rossville, Ohio , an unincorporated community Rossville, Knox County, Ohio , a ghost town Rossville, Tennessee [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
78-493: The 2016 census , the locality of Rossville had a population of 204 people. In the 2021 census , the locality of Rossville had a population of 253 people. Rossville has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Rossville State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Angus Gully Road ( 15°45′48″S 145°16′06″E / 15.7632°S 145.2683°E / -15.7632; 145.2683 ( Rossville State School ) ). In 2017,
104-824: The Hope Islands National Park . The Hope Island are traditionally part of the sea country of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people. The Hope Islands were named by Lieutenant James Cook of HMS Endeavour on 13 June 1770. After the Endeavour had become stranded on the Endeavour Reef , Cook hoped that they might reach the islands after freeing the ship. Rossville Provisional School opened circa 1898 and became Rossville State School on 1 January 1909. It closed in 1964. A new Rossville State School opened on 25 January 1988. In
130-478: The Shire of Cook , Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , the locality of Rossville had a population of 253 people. Helenvale is a neighbourhood within the north-west of the locality ( 15°43′01″S 145°13′01″E / 15.717°S 145.217°E / -15.717; 145.217 ( Helenvale (neighbourhood) ) ). The Hope Islands are an island group 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) off
156-539: The rainforest regions of Far North Queensland . The traditional language of the people is Guugu Yalandji . It has been comprehensively studied, with a dictionary produced by Hank and Ruth Hershberger and a grammar by Elizabeth Patz. The Kuku Yalanji, according to Norman Tindale , held roughly 2,200 square miles (5,700 km ) of territory around the headwaters of the Palmer River . Their land ran east from Palmerville station to Mount Lukin, and stretched over
182-457: The traditional owners of their land in the form of 15 Indigenous land use agreements (ILUAs) in April 2007, covering more than 230,000 hectares (570,000 acres) between Mossman and Cooktown . In the agreements, signed on 19 October 2007, 64,000 hectares (160,000 acres) were designated as freehold land, partly for conservation and partly for residential or economic development use. The majority of
208-745: The Australian government opened up this area to selection , and as miners crowded into the area, where the Palmer River Gold Rush had been underway since news leaked out of a discovery of that mineral in June 1873. Within a year, over 5,000 Europeans and 2,000 Chinese, mainly from Guangdong , crammed into the Palmer River site, until then the sole preserve of the Kuku Yalanji people, to work its riches. Attempts made to uproot
234-566: The Cape York Land Council. In an agreement signed on 28 September 2021, the eastern Kuku Yalanji were handed back 160,108 hectares (395,640 acres) of land encompassing the UNESCO World Heritage -listed Daintree Rainforest , together with Ngalba Bulal, Kalkajaka and Hope Islands National Park . Daisy Green 12th July 2023 in my boring geography lesson. :) Abby Thornhill 12th Julyyyy 2023 in
260-543: The Palmer population of Chinese briefly skyrocketing to some 17,000 by 1877, until the opportunities for quick takings began to dwindle, with most Europeans leaving by 1880, and the Chinese numbers dropping drastically to 3,000. In response to this overwhelming invasion, the Kuku Yalanji set up a fierce resistance, virtually tantamount to guerilla warfare. The Kuku Yalanji were eventually reduced to living in shanty towns on
286-775: The White Australia policy to remove them from the urban and other "white" areas. The Kuku Yalanji began concentrating around the Mossman Reserve around the time of World War II and the people in the Daintree region were forced to the northern bank of the Daintree River . They were further subjected to more expulsions and waves of relocations by the Australian government. The Kuku Yalanji are now concentrated predominantly in Mossman and Wujal Wujal . Survival
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#1732771905516312-472: The decimation of northern Queensland Aboriginal communities. From 1897 to the 1960s, the Kuku Yalanji, like other Australian ethnic groups, faced the Australian government's paternalistic legislation that allowed for members of these ethnic groups to be placed under "protection" by placing them in Aboriginal reserves . Ostensibly, it was to preserve their cultures; in reality this program was an element of
338-636: The east coast of Rossville ( 15°44′20″S 145°27′08″E / 15.7389°S 145.4522°E / -15.7389; 145.4522 ( Hope Islands ) ). The Annan River and East Normanby River both rise on the slopes of the Trevethan Range in the south of Rossville. The boundaries of the locality extend into the Coral Sea to incorporate the two Hope Islands into the locality (unofficially known as East Hope and West Hope to distinguish them). The Hope Islands are entirely within
364-492: The eating of parts of the dead, which however was a restricted practice related to ritual mortuary customs. The vivid narrations of their killing their own women and children for eating to allay their hunger or of "feasting" on Chinese like "manna from heaven" in popular works like that of Hector Holthouse, are now considered wild exaggerations, since the actual evidence is skimpy. Christopher Anderson, who transcribed one account by an elderly fully initiated Kuku Yalanji man glosses
390-633: The exclusion of all others" and have rights of succession and inheritance. In most of the area, which comprise 96,600 hectares (239,000 acres) of timber reserve, term leases and special leases, the Eastern Kuku Yalanji People have non-exclusive rights to hunting, camping, conducting ceremonies , burials, use of water and various other shared rights. The land is managed by an RNTBC , the Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation, which belongs to
416-423: The form of opium ash mixed with water accounted for thousands of native deaths, far more than those due to other introduced maladies such as venereal disease . Modern historians now consider that these early reports, like the tales of the Kuku Yalanji hunting Chinese for cannibalistic feasting, whatever partial truth they contain, functioned to assuage any guilt European settlers may have felt for their key role in
442-429: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rossville&oldid=977945064 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rossville, Queensland Download coordinates as: Rossville is a town and coastal locality in
468-561: The land and their extermination. The Kuku Yalanji, believed to number some 3,000 people (2003), constitute one of the "Bama Rainforest Peoples". They are reputedly closely related to the Wulpura rain forest dwellers on the plateau in the modern day Mount Windsor National Park. The Kuku-Yalanji people registered a Native Title Claim over parts of their traditional land in May 1995. The eastern Kuku Yalanji people were eventually recognised as
494-609: The land would be managed by the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS). In its determination, finalised on 9 December 2007, the Federal Court of Australia recognised that the Eastern Kuku Yalanji People have exclusive native title rights over 30,300 hectares (75,000 acres) of unallocated state land, which means that they "possess, occupy and use the area to
520-411: The outskirts of the areas which the foreign populations developed, and developed skills for working in the new economy. Often, in trading their services with the Chinese, Kuku Yalenjis were paid in opium , which could be imported legally until 1906. According to contemporary European observers appointed as Protectors of Aborigines , such as Walter Roth and Archibald Meston , consumption of this drug in
546-607: The people from their homeland were resisted. A Lutheran mission opened up on the Bloomfield River in 1886, but it failed within 16 years of its establishment. Forced removals of more Kuku Yalanji people were undertaken again in the 1930s. The police and army transported them in dire conditions to missions at Daintree and Mossman . As late as 1957, a further attempt to relocate groups to a mission in Bloomfield took place. The gold rush lasted from 1873 to 1885, with
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#1732771905516572-629: The school had an enrolment of 32 students with 3 teachers and 7 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 28 students with 2 teachers and 5 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent). There are no secondary schools in Rossville with the closest secondary school being Cooktown State School in neighbouring Cooktown , 31.1 kilometres (19.3mi) from Rossville. Kuku Yalanji The Kuku Yalanji , also known as Gugu-Yalanji , Kuku Yalandji or Kokojelandji , are an Aboriginal Australian people originating from
598-472: The southern and western areas of the Dividing Range as far as the upper Mitchell River . The eastern limits lay around east to Byerstown, and they were present at Maytown . One of the oldest living cultures, dating back to the earliest human occupation of the continent around 50,000 years ago, the Kuku Yalanji began to have their homeland occupied extensively by European colonisers in 1877, after
624-471: The story by suggesting that:- Apart from the probably rare actual incidents human flesh consumption, the strong European belief in Aboriginal cannibalism in this area arose and persists today, I would argue, as an ideological mechanism: it states and reinforces the belief that Aborigines were less human or at the very least were "uncivilized" if they ate other humans. This then justified their removal from
650-432: The variety known as bitter yam particularly sought after, supplemented by bitter walnut , candlenuts and Kuranda quandong . They classified the annual climatic cycle into five seasons. Early reports often wrote that the Kuku Yalanji were devoted to cannibalism , targeting in particular Chinese immigrants , whom they called kubara or miran bilin (tight eyes). It is not infrequent to encounter early accounts of
676-415: Was dependent on the exploitation of seasonal variation. It is believed that Kuku Yalanji lived in the rainforest region no later than 4,000 years ago. It is known that they had high population density, and lived in semi-permanent gunyahs . Their staples for obtaining carbohydrates were the toxic seeds of Cycas media , which were leached of their poisonous compounds before cooking; two species of yam , with
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