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It is located approximately {{convert|30|km|mi}} north of Cape Tribulation and {{convert|60|km|mi}} south of Cooktown. Access to the community is via sealed road from Cooktown, or by the Bloomfield Track, an unsealed road from Cape Tribulation which is only suitable for four wheel drive vehicles. This is due to the gradient of the terrain and the many streams and rivers that make up the Daintree drainage basin which cross the path at very regular intervals. During high waterflow the road from Cape Tribulation is impassable.

The rare Bloomfield River Cod (Guyu wujalwujalensis) is found only in the Bloomfield River and is named after this community.

The community of Wujal Wujal is located in the Cape York region with the surrounding environment and cultural tourism attracting many people to the region. Wujal Wujal is part of the traditional homelands of the Eastern Kuku (Goo-goo) Yalanji (Ya-lan-gee).^[2]^[3]

The name ‘Wujal Wujal’ or ‘many falls’ is derived from the local language. There are several Indigenous languages spoken within this community.^[3]

History of Wujal Wujal

European contact

The Bloomfield River mission was established on land belonging to the Kuku-Yalanji people. The first recorded Europeans to visit the Bloomfield River were Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Frederick Bedwell and Captain Phillip Parker King on board the HMS Mermaid on a hydrological survey of the east coast of Australia. In June 1819, HMS Mermaid anchored in Weary Bay and:^[4]^[3]

One of Hann’s party discovered gold on the Palmer River. After hearing of the discovery, James Venture Mulligan led an expedition to the Palmer River in 1873. Mulligan reported that the sandbars of the river glittered with gold, which started a huge gold rush to the district.^[6] By late 1873, the first government officials and prospectors came ashore at the Endeavour River accompanied by a detachment of Native Police.^[7]^[3]

In 1874, Cooktown was established. Within 4 months, Cooktown and the Palmer River goldfield had a population of about 3,000 people, many of whom were Chinese immigrants. By 1880, the population of Cooktown had grown to about 7,000.^[7]^[3]

Conflict between the Europeans and local Aboriginal people began almost immediately. In October 1873, 93 miners (led by Goldfields Commissioner Howard St George and Engineer A C MacMillan) set out from the Endeavour River to blaze a track to the Palmer River.^[3]

There were several skirmishes along the way, culminating in a pitched battle between about 150 Aboriginal warriors and the expedition members at their camp near the Normanby River. The site of this encounter was subsequently named ‘Battle Camp’. A contemporary newspaper published the following account of the battle from one of the expedition members:^[8]^[3]

In 1875, a prospecting party on the Bloomfield River was attacked and driven back to Cooktown by Aboriginal people.^[10] The Native Police also established a camp at Laura in 1875. A further detachment under the command of Sub-Inspector O’Connor arrived in January 1876.^[11]^[3] The first pastoralists in the Bloomfield River district were George Hislop and Frederick Bauer. Bauer established the Bloomfield River Sugar Company on the north side of the river with imported Malay labour. The town of Ayton was established around the sugar mill.^[12] The Kuku Yalanji people continued to resist the invasion of their lands by the miners, pastoralists and timber getters. Frontier violence in the region was a frequent occurrence during the 1870s, resulting in hundreds of casualties.^[13]^[3]

During the 1880s there was a gradual change in north Queensland in the government policy of taking the country by lethal force. Instead, Aboriginal people were removed off their country on to missions, where they would not trouble the settlers and provided a cheap source of labour. This policy change resulted in a decision to establish two Aboriginal reserves in the Cooktown district; one at Cape Bedford and one at Bloomfield River.^[3]

In 1885, Lutheran missionary Johann Flierl was travelling to New Guinea to establish a mission, when he was unexpectedly delayed in Cooktown. While there, he negotiated with the Queensland Government to establish a mission close to Cooktown at Cape Bedford on land which had been gazetted as an Aboriginal reserve in 1881.^[14] At the same time, he also negotiated the establishment of a mission at the Bloomfield River, on a 640 acre site reserved for the Aborigines in August 1886 by the Queensland Government, just east of the Bloomfield Falls.^[15] In addition to the 640 acres gazetted in 1886, 50 square miles of land was reserved as a hunting ground for Aboriginal people in March 1889.^[16]^[3]

Frederick Bauer was appointed the interim superintendent of the mission in 1886. In 1887, he was replaced by the Lutheran missionary Carl H Meyer, who had previously been at the Cape Bedford Mission. Meyer was dismissed in 1890 and replaced by Sebastian Hoerlein who arrived in 1891. Another missionary, Johann Bogner, arrived in 1892 and worked with Hoerlein until he and his wife left in 1895, due to her ill health.^[17]^[3]

From inception, the mission struggled to become firmly established. In 1887, the police magistrate from Cooktown visited the mission and reported that about 80 people were living there, consisting of mostly aged men, women and children.^[18] The average population of the mission from 1887 to 1900 was only 55.^[19] The population varied over time, as Aboriginal people would come and go from the mission as they pleased.^[3]

This feature of the mission has been explained by Christopher Anderson, who found that the mission was mostly used by the Wujalwujalwarra ‘mob’ of the Bloomfield River area, on whose land the mission stood. They incorporated the resources available at the mission into their social and economic life. The mission provided a reliable source of food and tobacco, and material items, such as farm tools and blankets. The mission was also used as a ‘caring centre’ where they could leave the elderly, ill and young.^[3]

Over time, the Kuku-Yalanji found other sites of more use. The mission superintendent Carl Meyer lamented that "it is painful and disappointing to be continually revealing the gospel message and find it meeting deaf ears everywhere".^[20]^[3]

In 1901, the Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Synod made the decision to withdraw from the mission. In 1902, Northern Protector Walter Roth closed the mission. The reserve status of the land was revoked. The Aboriginal people who had been on the mission stayed in the area in a number of small camps.^[21]^[3]

In 1945, the Cooktown Protector of Aboriginals reported that there was a camp on the south side of the river, a camp on the north side of the river, and another one upstream. He reported that the people camped there seemed to be fairly well off, having an abundant supply of food. However, he raised concerns about the large number of children living there and not attending school.^[22]^[3]

In 1957, a newspaper article was published which reported that some of the white residents of the Bloomfield River area had complained to the Cook Shire Council about the cleanliness of the camps at the Bloomfield River. This complaint followed a test of the Bloomfield River State School children for hookworm, which found that some of the students were infected. Thirty of the 51 students at the school were Aboriginal. The council then demanded that the Department of Native Affairs take urgent action to clean up the camps. The department approached the Lutheran Church to re-establish the mission at Bloomfield River and provided them with a £2500 grant to fund housing, transportation and communications.^[23]^[3]

An area of 260 acres (which included part of the old reserve) was gazetted as an Aboriginal reserve in May 1958.^[24] In the 1960s, the mission comprised 3 main villages; Bottom Camp, Thompson’s Creek Camp and the Outpost, and a separate area where the superintendent lived.^[25] During the 1960s, a girls’ hostel was built at the back of the superintendent’s house with the assistance of Aboriginal carpenters from the Hope Vale Mission.^[23]^[3]

In 1964, land about 6 km upstream from the mission, where the old mission had been, was proclaimed an Aboriginal reserve. The land was cleared for growing crops. A manager’s house, a boy’s dormitory, a mess hut and saw bench were constructed on this site. Subsequently, all the camps were consolidated into this one.^[23]^[3]

Local government and Deed of Grant in Trust community

On 16 February 1980, the Bloomfield River mission was officially renamed Wujal Wujal.^[26] On 29 October 1987, the Aboriginal reserve held by the Queensland Government was transferred to the trusteeship of the council under a Deed of Grant in Trust.^[27]^[3]

On 1 January 2005, under the Local Government (Community Government Areas) Act 2004, Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Council became the Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council.^[3]

Community

Wujal Wujal was formerly known as the Bloomfield River Mission and the people are Kuku Yalanji. The community has an estimated population of 470 (2001). The community at Wujal Wujal is thought to have existed on the site for thousands of years{{citation needed|date=January 2012}} and is set around the highly sacred waterfalls of Wujal Wujal meaning many "falls" in the Kuku Yalanji language. Visitors are warned not to bring any alcohol into the community as part of the Queensland Government's aims at tackling alcohol abuse. Traffickers of such contraband substances may be subject to fines. The government also help the community by giving small one day a week jobs involving community service to deter locals away from boredom and alcohol abuse.

The community has a helicopter landing pad just beside the hospital. Emergency medical services are provided by the Primary Health Care Centre (Remote Area Nurses, Health Workers, and two or three visits per week from doctors based at the Cooktown Hospital.

In 1980, the Aboriginal Council came into being, with the area regaining its traditional name, Wujal Wujal. The community has an Indigenous Knowledge Centre 'Binal Mangka Bayan, which means "house of knowing things". The Centre provides access to books, magazines and other educational material, as well as running programs for children, adults and seniors. Paid internet access is available.^[28]

The waterfalls

The waterfalls are very sacred to the community.^[29] For these sensitive cultural reasons, the general public only have access to one waterfall which is clearly indicated. Other waterfalls are reserved for the female members of the local community.

Tours

Tours are available by four wheel drive vehicles from Cairns and Cape Tribulation via the Bloomfield Track.

In 2003, the Walker family, one of the family groups of the Kuku Yalanji people, commenced their rainforest tours on their traditional country at Thompson Creek, six km south of Wujal Wujal. Guided walks to the Bloomfield Falls have recently been added as another opportunity in their business.

As their tour attracts business from the Bloomfield area, mainly the Bloomfield Wilderness Lodge, the guests come by boat to their landing site on the Bloomfield River bank, creating the need for a jetty or ramp.

See also

References

1. ^¹{{Census 2006 AUS|id=UCL362100|name=Wujal Wujal (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)|accessdate=2009-07-25|quick=on}}
2. ^Walker on behalf of the Eastern Kuku Yalanji People v State of Queensland ^[2007]FCA 1907.
3. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹²⁰²¹²²²³{{Cite web|url=https://www.qld.gov.au/atsi/cultural-awareness-heritage-arts/community-histories-wujal-wujal/index.html|title=Wujal Wujal|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=3 July 2017}}
4. ^Captain Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822, (John Murray, London, 1826) vol.1, ch.6, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11203/11203-h/11203-h.htm#chapter06at 8 April 2013.
5. ^Author unknown, ‘Mr Hann’s Exploring Party’, Brisbane Courier, 17 December 1872, 4; G C Bolton, Hann, William (1837-1889) (Australian Dictionary of Biography 2013) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hann-william-3708 at 8 April 2013.
6. ^G. Pike, Queen of the North: A Pictorial History of Cooktown and Cape York Peninsula (G. Pike, Mareeba, 1979) 22-23.
7. ^¹H. Pohlner, Gangurru (Hope Vale Mission Board, Milton, 1986).
8. ^COL/A194, 74/701 inquiry into the deaths of Aborigines at the Normanby River; Author unknown, ‘The Palmer’, Brisbane Telegraph, 23 January 1874.
9. ^Author unknown, ‘The Palmer’, The Queenslander, 4 April 1874, 8.
10. ^Author unknown, ‘Cooktown’, The Queenslander, 3 April 1875, 3.
11. ^Author unknown, ‘Cooktown’, Brisbane Courier, 10 January 1876, 3.
12. ^R. Ganter, Bloomfield (Wujal Wujal) (Griffith University, date unknown) http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/qld-mission/bloomfield-wujal-wujal at 19 December 2012.
13. ^Author unknown, ‘The New Goldfields’, Brisbane Courier, 27 March 1876, 3.
14. ^R. Ganter, Cape Belford Mission (Hope Vale) (1886-1942) (Griffith University, date unknown) http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/qld-mission/cape-bedford-mission-hope-vale-1886-1942 at 19 December 2012.
15. ^C. Anderson, ‘Was God Ever a ‘Boss’ at Wujal Wujal Lutherans and Kuku Yalanji: A Socio-historical Analysis’ (2010) 21, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 39; Queensland, Queensland Government Gazette, 14 August 1886, 651.
16. ^Queensland, Queensland Government Gazette, 2 March 1889, 824.
17. ^K. Evans, ‘Marie Yamba, Bloomfield and Hope Vale: the Lutheran Missions to the North Queensland Aborigines, 1886-1905’ (1972) 2, 6, Queensland Heritage, 10-1
18. ^COL/A488, 87/958.
19. ^C. Anderson, The Economic and Political Basis of Kuku-Yalanji Social History(PhD Thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1984) 242.
20. ^C. Anderson, The Economic and Political Basis of Kuku-Yalanji Social History(PhD Thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1984) n 14, 40-41, 46-47.
21. ^K. Evans, ‘Marie Yamba, Bloomfield and Hope Vale: the Lutheran Missions to the North Queensland Aborigines, 1886-1905’ (1972) 2, 6, Queensland Heritage, 10-14
22. ^1D/62, Cape Tribulation and Bloomfield Natives, report from the Cooktown Protector dated 15.9.1945.
23. ^¹²1D/62, Cape Tribulation and Bloomfield Natives (Sunday Mail article about Bloomfield River camps dated 14 April 1957, p.8; K J Schmidt (ed.), ‘Cedars in the Wilderness’, in Lutheran Church of Australia Yearbook 1987 (Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide, 1987); QSA A/58888 HHA Batch File no.58/2111.
24. ^Queensland, Queensland Government Gazette, 31 May 1958, 1147.
25. ^SRS 505/1/Box 691, 6B/15, sanitation report dated 25.5.1966.
26. ^Queensland, Queensland Government Gazette, 16 February 1980, 529.
27. ^SRS3501, Box 399, 01-049-046.
28. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.wujalwujalcouncil.qld.gov.au/community/indigenous-knowledge-centre/|title=Indigenous Knowledge Centre|last=|first=|date=|website=Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=30 January 2018}}
29. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.wujalwujalcouncil.qld.gov.au/history|title=History|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=18 September 2017}}

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This Wikipedia article contains material from [https://www.qld.gov.au/atsi/cultural-awareness-heritage-arts/community-histories-wujal-wujal/index.html Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community histories: Wujal Wujal]. Published by The State of Queensland under CC-BY-4.0, accessed on 3 July 2017.