Gia people

{{main|Giya language}}

The Gia spoke Giya/Bumbarra, a dialect of the Biri language, belongs to the Proserpine subgroup of the Maric languages.{{sfn|Dixon|2002|p=xxxiii}}

AIATSIS, in its AUSTLANG database, assigns a separate code to Ngaro, but its status is shown as unconfirmed, as the only source for it is a wordlist by Norman Tindale.{{AIATSIS|E59|Ngaro }}

According to Tindale, the Gias' lands extended over some {{convert|1,600|mi2|km2|order=flip}} of land from Bowen to St. Helens and Mount Dalrymple. Inland they reached the Clarke Range. They were present at Proserpine, Gloucester Island, and Repulse Bay.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=168}}{{AIATSIS|E58|Giya }}

Tindale registered this as a distinct tribe, directly south of Port Denison, but this has been questioned by Barker.{{sfn|Barker|1995|pp=29–30}}

Although Ngaro is given as a synonym for Gia, and vice versa, it appears that the Ngaro people inhabited the Whitsunday Islands.

The Yuwibara people occupied land to their south.

The Traditional Owner Reference Group consisting of representatives of the Yuwibara, Koinmerburra, Barada Barna, Wiri, Ngaro, and those Gia and Juru people whose lands are within Reef Catchments Mackay Whitsunday Isaac region, helps to support natural resource management and look after the cultural heritage sites in the area.{{cite web | title=Traditional Owners | website=Reef Catchments | date=9 September 2020 | url=https://reefcatchments.com.au/traditional-owners/ | access-date=18 October 2020 | archive-date=20 October 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020001227/https://reefcatchments.com.au/traditional-owners/ | url-status=dead }}

In response to inquiries made by Edward Micklethwaite Curr, Sergeant B. Shea, a resident of the Gia area, provided a sketch of the natives of his district.{{sfn|Shea|1887|pp=4–7}} He identified them as the Bumbarra tribes. He provided the names of the tribal divisions: those applying to men were Karilla and Whychaka, while women belonged either to the Denterbago or Helmerago. Marriage was contracted when girls reached the age of 12.{{sfn|Shea|1887|p=4}}

• Kia
• Bumbara,{{efn|Bumbara is a toponym, and Tindale thought it might refer to a horde of the Gia people{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=168}} }} Bumbarra

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• wina (fish)
• pigina (mosquito)
• kroopulla (fly)
• worniwoma (black woman)
• yaboo (father)
• yanga (mother)
• koloona (young man)
• kutha (old man)
• kummi (old woman)
• korea (head)
• dilli (eye)
• wolloo (ear){{sfn|Shea|1887|p=4}}
• dongalla (excrement)
• nikkana (food)
• kangoola (thirsty)
• wangalla (boomerang){{sfn|Shea|1887|p=7}}

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• {{Cite book| title = The Sea People: Maritime Hunter-gatherers on the Tropical Coast: a Late Holocene Maritime Specialisation in the Whitsunday Islands, Central Queensland

| last = Barker | first = Bryce

| year = 1995

| publisher = Pandanus Books

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• {{Cite journal| title = A preliminary register of Australian tribes and hordes

| last = Davidson | first = Daniel Sutherland

| journal = Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

| year = 1938 | volume = 79 | issue = 4 | pages = 649–679

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• {{Cite book

| title = Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development

| last = Dixon

| first = Robert M. W.

| author-link = Robert M. W. Dixon

| year = 2002

| volume = 1

| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MSqIBNJtG0AC&pg=PR33

| isbn = 978-0-521-47378-1

}}

• {{Cite book

| chapter = From port Denison to Cape Gloucester

| last = Shea

| first = B.

| title = The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent

| editor-last = Curr

| editor-first = Edward Micklethwaite

| editor-link = Edward Micklethwaite Curr

| year = 1887

| volume = 3

| pages = 4–7

| publisher = Melbourne: J. Ferres

| chapter-url = https://archive.org/download/australianracei02currgoog/australianracei02currgoog.pdf

}}

• {{Cite book

| chapter = Gia (QLD)

| last = Tindale

| first = Norman Barnett

| author-link = Norman Tindale

| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names

| year = 1974

| publisher = Australian National University Press

| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/gia.htm

| access-date = 31 July 2017

| archive-date = 2 July 2017

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170702071632/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/gia.htm

| url-status = dead

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