Henrietta Marrie
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| Born |
Henrietta Fourmile Yarrabah, Queensland |
| Residence | Cairns |
| Nationality | Yidinji |
| Other names | Bukal |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Education | Diploma Teaching, Graduate Diploma Teaching, Masters in Environmental and Local Government Law |
| Occupation | Associate Professor, Central Queensland University |
| Employer | Central Queensland University |
| Known for | Promoting and advocating indigenous cultural rights |
| Home town | Yarrabah, Queensland |
| Spouse(s) | Adrian Marrie |
Henrietta Marrie (née Fourmile) (born 1954) is an Australian indigenous rights activist. She is an Aboriginal Australian from the Yidinji tribe, directly descended from Ye-i-nie, an Aboriginal leader in the Cairns region.
She is an advocate for the rights of her own Gimuy Walubarra Yidinji families, as well as for the cultural rights of indigenous peoples nationally and internationally.
The "Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia" identifies Henrietta Marrie as a notable Aboriginal Australian in an entry that reads, in part, as follows:
Fourmile has been involved in extensive research in the areas of Aboriginal cultural heritage and museums, the politics of Aboriginal heritage and the arts and recently the area of Aborigines and cultural tourism.
She has been a senior fellow at the United Nations University and an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland. She is currently Associate Professor, Office of Indigenous Engagement at the Cairns campus of the Central Queensland University.
Henrietta Marrie's country within local Aboriginal tradition, to which she holds some property rights under Native Title law, is that country that was once wholly possessed, occupied, used and enjoyed by 'King' Ye-i-nie' and the Walubarra Yidinji families generally, as follows:
The area of the foreshore of the City of Cairns was traditionally known as Gimuy – after the Slippery Blue Fig Tree. The traditional lands of the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji People extend south of the Barron River to Wrights Creek (south of Edmonton), west into the ranges behind Cairns, and east into Trinity Inlet, including Admiralty Island, to the adjacent waters of the outer Great Barrier Reef. The lands in the Cairns suburb of Woree, close to Admiralty Island and Trinity Inlet, were the principal traditional camping grounds of the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people.
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