Wulli Wulli


The Wulili were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Language

is regarded as a dialect of Wagawaga. Nils Holmer has analysed what little has been salvaged from the language.

Country

assigned the Wulili an area of traditional tribal lands of approximately, ranging over the headwaters of the Auburn River and Redbank Creek, northwards as far as Walloon and Camboon, and on the ranges east of the
Dawson River. he placed their eastern borders in the vicinity of Eidsvold.

History

A very late tradition collected in 1979 states that a certain Jimmy Reid, A Camboon station resident, told a third party before his own death, that the Wulili had participated in the Hornet Bank massacre. In her memoir, the Queensland poet Judith Wright affirmed that, together with the Yiman, who were held responsible for the killings of the Fraser family, the Wulili also were wiped out. John Mathew, however, managed to collect samples of their language from native informants decades later, and published the results in 1926.

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