Gidhabal

The Gidhabal people's language is called Gidhabal.{{cite web | title=Gidhabal (E14) | website=Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies | url=https://aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/E14 | access-date=3 March 2025}} It is variety of the Condamine-Upper Clarence language, a dialect cluster of the wider Bundjalungic branch of Pama–Nyungan language family,{{sfn|Crowley|1978|pp=142–171}} though the Githabul dislike calling their language Bundjalung as a descriptor of their speech.{{sfn|Sharpe|2005|p=1}}

According to Norman Tindale, the Githabul people owned over some {{convert|1,700|mi2|km2}} of territory, which lay around the headwaters of the Clarence, Richmond, and Logan rivers on the Great Dividing Range. He adds that it extended from Killarney to Urbenville, Woodenbong, Unumgar (Nganamgah{{sfn|Sharpe|1985|p=104}}), and Tooloom. at Rathdowney and about Spicer Gap. Tindale placed its southern reaches near the vicinity of Tabulam and Drake.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=195}}

R. H. Mathews stayed with the Githabul in 1898 and picked up the following information concerning their social divisions, which were fourfold.{{sfn|Mathews|1907|p=83}}

In September 1995 Githabul legal scholar Trevor Close, on behalf of his people, lodged a native title claim for {{cvt|140,600|ha}} in the Kyogle, Woodenbong and Tenterfield areas in northeast New South Wales and in Queensland, south of Rathdowney. Justice Catherine Branson of the Federal Court of Australia, on 29 November 2007, made a consent determination recognising their non-exclusive native title rights and interests over {{convert|1,120|km2|mi2}} in nine national parks and 13 state forests in northern New South Wales.{{sfn|Branson|2007}}

In May 2021 the Githabul peoples lodged a Native Title claim (Waringh Waringh) over much of the former Warwick Shire within the Southern Downs Regional Council area of Queensland.{{cn|date=March 2025}}

• Kidabal, Kidjabal, Kit(t)a-bool, Kittabool, Kitabool, Kitapul
• Gidabul, Gidjoobal
• Kuttibul
• Noowidal{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=195}}

• Frank Roberts (1945–2011), boxer, one of three first Indigenous Australians to participate in the Olympics, in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics{{cite web | last=Smith | first=Matthew | title=Indigenous boxer and Olympian fought for his country, but battled for respect and recognition | website=ABC News | date=1 March 2025 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-01/indigenous-olympic-boxer-celebrated-at-adelaide-festival/104983236 | access-date=3 March 2025}}

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• {{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia

| date = 28 July 2023

| publisher = AIATSIS

| url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia

| ref = {{harvid|AIATSIS}}

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• {{Cite book| title = The middle Clarence dialects of Bandjalang

| last = Crowley | first = Terry | year = 1978

| author-link = Terry Crowley

| publisher = Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies

| url = https://archive.org/details/middleclarencedi0000crow

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/middleclarencedi0000crow/page/142 142–171]

| isbn = 0855750650

}}

• {{Cite web| title = Githabul People's native title determination North-eastern New South Wales

| publisher = National Native Title Tribunal

| url = http://www.nntt.gov.au/Information%20Publications/Determination%20brochure%20Githabul%20people%20November%202007.pdf

| date = 29 November 2009

| ref = {{harvid|Branson|2007}}

}}

• {{Cite news| title = Githabul People's native title recognised in NSW

| publisher = National Native Title Tribunal

| url = http://www.nntt.gov.au/News-and-Publications/latest-news/Pages/GithabulPeoplesnativetitlerecognisedinNSW.aspx

| date = 29 November 2007

| ref = {{harvid|Githabul|2007}}

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• {{Cite journal | title = Initiation ceremonies of some Queensland tribes

| last = Mathews | first = R. H.

| author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews

| journal = Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

| year = 1898a | volume = 37 | issue = 157 | pages = 54–73

| jstor = 983694

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• {{Cite journal | title = Divisions of Queensland aborigines

| last = Mathews | first = R. H.

| author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews

| journal = Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

| year = 1898b | volume = 37 | pages = 327–336

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31422

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• {{Cite journal | title = Notes on the aborigines of the Northern Territory, Western Australia, and Queensland

| last = Mathews | first = R. H.

| author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews

| journal = Queensland Geographical Journal

| year = 1907 | volume = 22 | pages = 74–86

| url = https://archive.org/download/queenslandgeogra20roya/queenslandgeogra20roya.pdf

}}

• {{Cite news| title = Tribe on a high as heartland won back

| last = Meade | first = Kevin

| newspaper = The Australian

| url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/tribe-on-a-high-as-heartland-won-back/story-e6frg6oo-1111114389921 | url-status = dead

| archive-url = https://archive.today/20121228191737/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/tribe-on-a-high-as-heartland-won-back/story-e6frg6oo-1111114389921

| date = 11 September 2007 | archive-date = 28 December 2012

}}

• {{Cite news| title = Aborigines in big land claim win

| last = Mercer | first = Phil

| work = BBC News

| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6224435.stm

| date = 2 January 2007

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Bundjalung Settlement and Migration

| last = Sharpe | first = Margaret C.

| journal = Aboriginal History

| year = 1985 | volume = 9 | issue = 1 | pages = 101–124

| url = http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p71761/pdf/article063.pdf

}}

• {{Cite book| title = An Introduction to the Yugambeh-Bundjalung Language and its Dialects | edition = 4th

| last = Sharpe | first = Margaret C. | year = 2005

| publisher = University of New England | location = Armidale

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• {{Cite book| chapter = Kitabal (NSW)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974

| author-link = Norman Tindale

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

| publisher = Australian National University Press

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

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