Hopevale

Hopevale
Aboriginal home on the Cape Bedford Mission in the 1920s
State :  Australia State : Queensland Founded : 1886
Coordinates : 15 ° 18 ′  S , 145 ° 7 ′  E Coordinates: 15 ° 18 ′  S , 145 ° 7 ′  E Area : 9.0  km²
Residents : 851 (2016) Population density : 95 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AWST (UTC + 8) Postal code : 4895 LGA : Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council
Hopevale

Hopevale , also called Hope Vale or Hopevale Mission , is an Aboriginal missionary station in Queensland , Australia with 851 residents. It is located on the Cape York Peninsula about 46 km northwest of Cooktown . The settlement emerged from earlier mission stations.

history

The Cape Bedford Mission Station , which was run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church , was built on the beach in 1886 as the Elim Aboriginal Mission .

Since it was suspected that the Aborigines were cooperating with the attacking Japanese in World War II , the entire population was transferred by the military to various Aboriginal communities further south of Australia, and the German Evangelical Lutheran Church missionaries were taken to internment camps. Most of the Aborigines on this mission were deported to Woorabinda near Rockhampton in Queensland. Within a month of deportation, 28 Aborigines and in the next eight years 235 Aborigines died in Woorabinda, nearly a quarter of the original community.

Hope Vale was put back into operation by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in September 1949. A group of Aboriginal workers were allowed to return from Woorabinda in 1949. The first families came back in 1950. Then the Aborigines from Hope Valley and the Cape Bedford Mission settled there. In the absence of sufficient potable water at the Elim Aboriginal Mission , the community walked about 20 kilometers inland to settle.

After 1949

Hopevale was no longer operated as a mission station after 1949, but by the self-elected Community Council.

In 1961, two Aborigines were sued in court for mistreatment. The indictment led the lawyer and the leftist politician Fred Paterson .

The Queensland Aboriginal Land Act 1991 gave indigenous owners former land on a reservation as DOGIT (Deed of Grant in Trust). " The Warra people of the Hopevale Community of Eastern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland received acknowledgment of their native title rights in December 1997. The determination recognized rights of exclusive possession, occupation use and enjoyment over 110,000 ha. (Native Title Determination, Warra Peoples, Hope Vale Community of Cape York (NNTT QC96 / 15) "

Hopevale is home to various clan groups, most of whom speak Guugu Yimidhirr and other Australian languages as well as English.

Personalities

Known former residents of Hopevale are

• Matt Bowen , rugby player
• Noel Pearson , lawyer and activist for the Aboriginal people. Pearson also criticized the violence that prevailed in this community.

On July 21, 2008 the Hope Vale community opened the Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Center (IKTC), in the Jack Bambie building. This center operates a library service, a training area and a public Internet connection.

literature

• Pohlner, Peter. 1986. gangarru . Hopevale Mission Board, Milton, Queensland. ISBN 1-86252-311-8
• Poland, Wilhelm. Loose leaves; reminiscences of a pioneer North Queensland Missionary . originally published as three booklets by The Mission Institute of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria, 1905–1912. Reprint: Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide. 1988. ISBN 0-85910-468-0
• Roth, WE 1897. The Queensland Aborigines . 3 vols. Reprint: Facsimile Edition, Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, WA, 1984. ISBN 0-85905-054-8 .
• Sutton, Peter (ed). Languages ​​of Cape York: Papers presented to a Symposium organized by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies . Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. (1976). ISBN 0-85575-046-4 .
• Wynter, Jo and Hill, John. 1991. Cape York Peninsula: Pathways to Community Economic Development . The Final Report of The Community Economic Development Projects Cook Shire. Cook Shire Council.

Secondary literature

• Haviland, John B., with Hart, Roger. 1998. Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point . Crawford House Publishing, Bathurst. ISBN 1-86333-169-7 .
• Callaghan, Margie, editor. Mangal-Bungalows Clever with Hands: Baskets and stories woven by some of the women of Hopevale, Cape York Peninsula . Hopevale Community Learning Center Aboriginal Corporation. ISBN 978-0-646-46701-6

Web links

• Aboriginal Co-ordinating Council website ( Memento of May 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Queensland Stories - Hope Vale Water (English)
• Queensland Stories - Hope Vale's War (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Hope Vale (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
2. ^ Black Image - History ( Memento November 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), accessed May 10, 2015.
3. ^ Ross Fitzgerald: The Peoples Champion: Fred Paterson- Australia's Only Communist Party Member of Parliament. 230. St Lucia, Queensland: 1997. ISBN 0-7022-2959-8 Online on Google Books , accessed March 22, 2010
4. ↑ Dogit-demand , accessed 21 July 2009
5. ↑ information on www.mabonativetitle.com , accessed 21 July 2009
6. ↑ Noel Pearson: Vale hope in outback hellhole. The Australian, February 17, 2007, accessed July 21, 2009 .