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| ==Country== | ==Country== | ||
| In ]'s estimation, the Koa's tribal territory ranged over about 10,000 sq. miles. Taking the headwaters of ] as the centre, they extended north as far as ]. Their western boundary lay around ], wshile to the east, their frontier was at ]. Their southern limits were around Cork. {{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=175}} | In ]'s estimation, the Koa's tribal territory ranged over about 10,000 sq. miles. Taking the headwaters of ] as the centre, they extended north as far as ]. Their western boundary lay around ], wshile to the east, their frontier was at ]. Their southern limits were around Cork. {{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=175}} | ||
| ==Social organization and practices== | |||
| Neither circumcision nor ] played any part in the Koa's initiatory rites into manhood. | |||
| ==Native title== | ==Native title== | ||
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| * ''witto.'' (whiteman) {{sfn|Curr|1886a|p=14}} | * ''witto.'' (whiteman) {{sfn|Curr|1886a|p=14}} | ||
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| *{{Cite news| title= Court rules property free of native title | *{{Cite news| title= Court rules property free of native title | ||
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The Koa are an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
Name
Tasaku Tsunoda has speculated that the ethnonym Koa may derive from a word *guwa meaning 'west'.
Country
In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Koa's tribal territory ranged over about 10,000 sq. miles. Taking the headwaters of Diamantina as the centre, they extended north as far as Kynuna. Their western boundary lay around Middleton Creek, wshile to the east, their frontier was at Winton and Sesbania. Their southern limits were around Cork.
Native title
In 1998 grazier Noel Kennedy applied to the Federal Court to have his property Castle Hill declared to be free of native title. This was challenged by the descendants of the Koa the following year, in a counter claim for native title to the Castle Hill Pastoral Holding and the Bladensburg National Park in the Shire of Winton. In mid-2002 a Federal Court declared that the Koa claim did not apply to Kennedy's pastoral lands because the Koa could not demonstrate continuity of cultural practices in that area over the last half-century. In 2015, a further claim to title was made by the Koa.
Alternative names
- Goa.
- Goamulgo.
- Coa.
- Coah.
- Guwa.
Some words
- mikamo. (wild dog)
- kobba. (father)
- yanga. (mother)
- witto. (whiteman)
References
- Tsunoda 2012, p. 248.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 175.
- Queensland 2000.
- ABC 2002.
- NNTT 2015.
- Curr 1886a, p. 14. sfn error: no target: CITEREFCurr1886a (help)
- "Court rules property free of native title". ABC News . 14 June 2002.
- "Queensland" (PDF). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 2000.
- Anon, Coah (1897). Tribal dialect near Kynuna. Vol. 1. Sydney. pp. 16–17.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help); Invalid|ref=harv(help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Bennett, Samuel (1867). The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation (PDF). Sydney: Hanson and Bennett.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Curr, Edward (1887a). "Diamantina River, Middleton Creek,-The Goa tribe". In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent (PDF). Vol. 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 14–15.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Curr, Montagu (1887b). "head of Diamantina". In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent (PDF). Vol. 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 12–13.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Haines, John (1887). "Western River". In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent (PDF). Vol. 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 16–17.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Lauterer, J. (1897). Aboriginal languages of eastern Australia compared. Vol. 12. Brisbane. pp. 11–16.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help); Invalid|ref=harv(help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Koa People (QC2015/007)". National Native Title Tribunal. 16 July 2015.
- Roth, W. E. (1897). Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (PDF). Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Koa (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tsunoda, Tasaku (2012). A Grammar of Worrongo. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-110-23877-8.
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