Aboriginal peoples of Cape York Peninsula

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Aboriginal Australians Indigenous people

The Aboriginal peoples of Cape York Peninsula are Indigenous Australian groups with ancient, deeply rooted cultural traditions, languages, and spiritual connections to the land and surrounding seas in far north Queensland.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Aboriginal Australians ⓘ Indigenous people ⓘ
hasBeliefSystem	Dreaming law ⓘ ancestral law ⓘ land- and sea-based spiritual cosmology ⓘ totemism ⓘ
hasClanOrGroup	Aurukun Wik and Kugu peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Guugu Yimithirr people NERFINISHED ⓘ Hope Vale Aboriginal people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaantju people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kugu Nganhcara peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuku Yalanji people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuuk Thaayorre people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuuku Ya’u people NERFINISHED ⓘ Lama Lama people NERFINISHED ⓘ Olkola people NERFINISHED ⓘ Umpila people NERFINISHED ⓘ Uutaalnganu people NERFINISHED ⓘ Wik peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Wuthathi people NERFINISHED ⓘ Yir-Yoront people NERFINISHED ⓘ Yuku Baja Muliku people NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasContemporaryIssue	cultural heritage protection ⓘ land rights claims ⓘ language maintenance and revival ⓘ native title determinations ⓘ
hasCulturalConnectionTo	land ⓘ rainforests ⓘ rivers ⓘ savanna woodlands ⓘ sea ⓘ wetlands ⓘ
hasHistoricalExperience	colonisation impacts ⓘ dispossession of land ⓘ forced removals ⓘ mission and reserve system ⓘ
hasKnowledgeSystem	astronomical knowledge ⓘ marine resource management knowledge ⓘ medicinal plant knowledge ⓘ traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ
hasLanguage	Guugu Yimithirr NERFINISHED ⓘ Kugu Nganhcara NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuku Yalanji NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuuk Thaayorre NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuuku Ya’u NERFINISHED ⓘ Lama Lama NERFINISHED ⓘ Umpila NERFINISHED ⓘ Wik Mungkan NERFINISHED ⓘ Yir-Yoront NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasOrganisation	Aurukun Shire Council NERFINISHED ⓘ Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ Cape York Land Council NERFINISHED ⓘ Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council NERFINISHED ⓘ Lockhart River Aboriginal Shire Council NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPopulationCharacteristic	culturally diverse ⓘ linguistically diverse ⓘ maintains strong connection to Country ⓘ practices customary law alongside Australian law ⓘ
hasSpiritualConnectionTo	Country ⓘ Dreaming NERFINISHED ⓘ ancestral beings ⓘ
hasTraditionalOwnerOf	Cape York Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Torres Strait coastal waters adjacent to Cape York ⓘ parts of the Great Barrier Reef coast ⓘ
hasTraditionalPractice	body painting ⓘ ceremonial dance ⓘ fire-stick farming ⓘ gathering of bush foods ⓘ initiation ceremonies ⓘ rock art creation ⓘ seasonal burning for land management ⓘ song cycles ⓘ storytelling ⓘ subsistence hunting and fishing ⓘ totemic rituals ⓘ
locatedIn	Australia ⓘ Cape York Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Queensland ⓘ
partOf	Indigenous Australians NERFINISHED ⓘ
usesLanguageFamily	Paman languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Pama–Nyungan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Yolngu-related languages ⓘ

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