Kubi Gubbi Culture
CHCDIV002 Project
Culture and History
The first known people to inhabit the Maroochy district were the Aboriginal people of the Kabi Kabi (pronounced Gubbi Gubbi) language group. The people derived their name from the pale honey gathered from the eucalypts of the area. The land that they inhabited stretched from Burrum River in the north, to Pine River in the south, and west as far as the Conondale Ranges. For more than 20,000 years, the Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi people hunted and lived in the surrounding ranges, fished the rivers and gathered seafood from the ocean.
In Gubbi Gubbi society, emphasis was placed upon generosity. Clans would often meet to celebrate ceremonies that included rites of passage, marriages and festivals. In the Sunshine …show more content…
Another issue was food. Due to the expansive and fertile nature of the land, European settlers found it most suitable for farming livestock and agricultural crops. This had a knock on effect of disrupting the natural environment that the Gubbi Gubbi relied upon to survive. Tensions rose between the new comers and the indigenous people. As the land was slowly taken over the Gubbi Gubbi resorted to taking the Europeans crops and livestock to survive. This inevitably led to conflict, violence and even massacres, unfortunately for the Gubbi Gubbi people, in 1897 the Queensland government past laws that allowed the forcible removal of aboriginal people from their native land to reserves. The local Gubbi Gubbi were moved to reserves in Cherbourg and …show more content…
The health and economic difficulties facing Aborigines living both in urban and remote areas are high. Both the remote and urban populations have adverse ratings on a number of social indicators, including health, education, unemployment, poverty and crime.
There are a number of issues facing indigenous people when trying to engage with community and health services. These range from: Language barriers, cultural ignorance and prejudice on behalf of workers, lack of interpreters, economic barriers, cultural and family restrictions.
Historically the political environment has not been kind to indigenous people. This has led to an apathetic approach to aboriginal health care and lack of access to appropriate community services. One major problem was that the government had a ‘one size fits all’ approach to indigenous culture. This lack of understanding of the diversity contained within aboriginal society created a dysfunctional solution for indigenous people to access community and health services. However in recent years there has been a concerted effort to rectify these problems. Unfortunately the implementation of government acts (past and present) has raised concerns of the removal of self-autonomy from certain groups of aboriginal
Culture and History
The first known people to inhabit the Maroochy district were the Aboriginal people of the Kabi Kabi (pronounced Gubbi Gubbi) language group. The people derived their name from the pale honey gathered from the eucalypts of the area. The land that they inhabited stretched from Burrum River in the north, to Pine River in the south, and west as far as the Conondale Ranges. For more than 20,000 years, the Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi people hunted and lived in the surrounding ranges, fished the rivers and gathered seafood from the ocean.
In Gubbi Gubbi society, emphasis was placed upon generosity. Clans would often meet to celebrate ceremonies that included rites of passage, marriages and festivals. In the Sunshine …show more content…
Another issue was food. Due to the expansive and fertile nature of the land, European settlers found it most suitable for farming livestock and agricultural crops. This had a knock on effect of disrupting the natural environment that the Gubbi Gubbi relied upon to survive. Tensions rose between the new comers and the indigenous people. As the land was slowly taken over the Gubbi Gubbi resorted to taking the Europeans crops and livestock to survive. This inevitably led to conflict, violence and even massacres, unfortunately for the Gubbi Gubbi people, in 1897 the Queensland government past laws that allowed the forcible removal of aboriginal people from their native land to reserves. The local Gubbi Gubbi were moved to reserves in Cherbourg and …show more content…
The health and economic difficulties facing Aborigines living both in urban and remote areas are high. Both the remote and urban populations have adverse ratings on a number of social indicators, including health, education, unemployment, poverty and crime.
There are a number of issues facing indigenous people when trying to engage with community and health services. These range from: Language barriers, cultural ignorance and prejudice on behalf of workers, lack of interpreters, economic barriers, cultural and family restrictions.
Historically the political environment has not been kind to indigenous people. This has led to an apathetic approach to aboriginal health care and lack of access to appropriate community services. One major problem was that the government had a ‘one size fits all’ approach to indigenous culture. This lack of understanding of the diversity contained within aboriginal society created a dysfunctional solution for indigenous people to access community and health services. However in recent years there has been a concerted effort to rectify these problems. Unfortunately the implementation of government acts (past and present) has raised concerns of the removal of self-autonomy from certain groups of aboriginal