Yulmbarril yundu bama-bama!!
Welcome to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji cultural heritage database. As a way to protect, maintain and store information of our bubu and jalun, Jabalbina has revitalised our cultural heritage database for the purpose of all Yalanji bama to learn, be informed and connect. For IT questions, please contact the Jabalbina office on (07) 4098 3552.
Jabalbina was established in 2007 as the Eastern Kuku Yalanji People’s Registered Native Title Body Corporate (RNTBC) and primary Land Trust, with responsibility to administer the 15 Eastern Kuku Yalanji ILUAs on behalf of Traditional Owners. This includes the management of approximately 15,000 hectares of Aboriginal Freehold Land. In 2011, Jabalbina was also registered as the Cultural Heritage Body for Eastern Kuku Yalanji Country under the Queensland Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act.
These combined roles have resulted in Jabalbina developing as a “one stop shop” for all of the Eastern Kuku Yalanji People’s land and sea business. Jabalbina continues to assist Eastern Kuku Yalanji people seeking to return to live and work on Country and manages a large workload of native title, cultural heritage and other referrals and enquiries. Increasingly however, Jabalbina has developed as a land and sea management organisation through its management of the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Indigenous Protected Area and the delivery of the National Parks CYPAL project. This has been an objective of Jabalbinas’, but has also been one of the few ways that it can access resources to support the governance and administration of the corporation. Bama-bama would like Jabalbina to be able to support them to work and return to live on country, run business and to re-connect.
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