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Dalla people


The Dalla, also known as Jinibara, were an indigenous Australian people of southern Queensland whose tribal lands lay close to Brisbane.

The term Dalla refers to a variety of staghorn fern, which was said to be applied also the language they spoke. The language itself was closely related to the Gubbi Gubbi language.

Dalla lands were centred on the hinterland ranges just north of Brisbane, such as the D'Aguilar, Glass House, Blackall and Jimna ranges west of the present-day Sunshine Coast. The territory encompassed Nanango, ran east to Nambour, Palmwoods, Durundur, including the upper Brisbane River and the headwaters of the Mary River. To their west were the Wakka Wakka people, the Gubbi Gubbi were to their north, divided from them by the Mary River. East towards the coast were the Undanbi, who, together with the Ningy Ningy, and the Djindubari on Bribie Island, the Dalla referred to as 'Saltwater people' (Mwoirnewar).

The Dalla traditionally comprised five clans: the Dungidau, centred in the Kilcoy region and the junction of the Stanley and Brisbane riverss; the Dalla or Dallumbara clan in the Conondale Range; west to the Brisbane River; the Gurumgar in the southern sector of the D'Aguilar Range; the Nalbo along the Maleny-Mapleton escarpment and the Dungibara on the Upper Brisbane River).


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