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14-695: Although the Waanyi language was thought to be extinct , the 2016 Australian census found it to have 16 speakers, down from the recorded peak of 40 in the 2011 Australian census . It is classified as one of the Garrwan languages . The Waanyi territory was in well-watered limestone and sandstone country, including parts of the Gregory River . In Norman Tindale 's estimation, the Waanyi held about 9,700 square miles (25,000 km) of territory, extending from

28-607: A Queensland Government land act of 1989, CZL was granted two mining leases covering 23,585 hectares extending through Waanyi land the Century Mine was established on it. Eventually the terms of a settlement were agreed on, and CZL paid funding, training and employment to the traditional peoples, an accord known as the $ 90 million offer. The Waanyi claim a right to co-manage both the Boodjamulla National Park and Riversleigh World Heritage Area ,

42-597: A combination of traditional knowledge with Western science and conservation practices. Introduced by the Australian Government in 2007 as part of its Working on Country program, 127 ranger groups are employed in Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) and other parts of Australia . Many of Australia's threatened species and ecosystems are located on IPAs and/or in remote parts of Australia. The federal Working on Country program

56-438: Is an endangered Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Waanyi people of the lower gulf area of Northern Queensland , Australia. Although earlier thought to be extinct , as of the 2016 Australian census there were 16 speakers of the language. This was down from the recorded peak of 40 in the 2011 Australian census . The language region includes the western parts of Lawn Hill Creek and Nicholson River , from about

70-731: The Wambaya and Wakaya peoples ' lands. They took over the land of the Injilarija, who were considered extinguished around 1880, around Lawn Hill (today part of Boodjamulla National Park ). Waanyi people now co-manage the Ganalanga-Mindibirrina Indigenous Protected Area , declared in 2015. The whole area of the north was affected deeply by the pastoral boom opened up in 1881 in the Northern Territory, with massive stations under

84-662: The boundary between the Northern Territory and Queensland, westwards towards Alexandria station , Doomadgee , and Nicholson River. It includes the local government area of the Aboriginal Shire of Doomadgee . Words and phrases from this language are used by novelist Alexis Wright in her 2013 novel, The Swan Book . Phonemic long vowels are rare. Indigenous rangers Indigenous ranger programs enable First Nations people across Australia to protect and manage their land, sea and culture through

98-754: The control of a few eastern investors hastily stocked with cattle: the key watering sites were locked out, tribes were shot at sight, and many groups moved east into the Gulf of Carpentaria, where the same phenomenon repeated itself. The Waanyi and the Garrwa, like many tribes local to the area that found their lands taken over for pastoral leases and resisted dispossession, found themselves threatened. The Eastern Waanyi were wiped out; settler vigilantes and police magistrates employed native mounted troopers to ambush, murder and massacre any Aboriginal groups they came across. The lessees of Gregory Downs submitted testimony in 1880 that

112-431: The government was committing A$ 250 million until 2021, supporting 118 ranger groups. There had been significant advocacy for the increased annual funding for both Indigenous ranger and Indigenous Protected Area programs, the establishment of a long-term target of 5,000 ranger positions nationally, and extension of contract lengths to at least ten years for greater stability. This led to a funding increase of A$ 359 million,

126-461: The latter holding the richest Oligocene and Miocene mammalian and reptile fossil field in the world. In 2010, native title was granted over an area of 17,900 km (6,900 sq mi) abutting the Northern Territory border, including Boodjamulla, after litigation . In 2018 a second case was brought for two areas to the west of Doomadgee , one from Turn Off Lagoon as far as the NT border, and

140-747: The other close to the border of Doomadgee Shire , and Burketown , covering 441 km (170 sq mi). Native title was formally recognised by consent by the Federal Court of Australia on 22 September 2021, with its timing coinciding with new funding from the Queensland Government for four Indigenous rangers to work in the Boodjamulla and the Riversleigh. Source Tindale 1974 , p. 237: Wanyi language Waanyi , also spelt Wanyi , Wanji or Waanji ,

154-584: The police rounded up blacks and then shot them, while that of Lawn Hill five years later said that on his cattle run alone police had shot over a hundred blacks in three years, without achieving their aim of stopping the killing of livestock. The displaced Waanyi eventually took over the territory in the Lawn Hill area of the extinct Injilarija . The Waanyi first lodged a native title claim over an area known to them traditionally as Wugujaji in June 1994. Under

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168-547: The scheme had created more than 1900 full-time, part-time and casual jobs for Indigenous people across the country , across 127 ranger groups. These groups are supported by Country Needs People, an alliance of more than 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, The Pew Charitable Trusts , and as of 2018 more than 95,000 individuals, campaigning for the growth and security of Indigenous ranger jobs and Indigenous Protected Areas. The Australian Government, has been funding Indigenous ranger groups since 2007. By 2018

182-579: The vicinity of the south of the upper Nicholson River , west of Corinda, and at Spring and Lawn Hill creeks . Their eastern extension lay at the Barkly (Barclay) River, Lawn Hill and Bannockburn. Their western frontier was at Old Benmara, and south-west they roamed as far as Mount Morgan. They lay south of the Kunindiri and Garrwa people , west of the Injilarija and Nguburinji peoples, and east of

196-475: Was established by the Howard government in 2007, with the aim of creating meaningful employment, training and career pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in managing land and sea areas, as well as maintaining their cultures , and sharing their skills and knowledge with others. In turn, this would generate jobs in the environmental , biosecurity , heritage and other sectors. As of 2023

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