Bama Bulmba Series – The Tribes of the Wet Tropics

An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland

by Timothy Bottoms

40 Pages, Digital Download or Short-run Printed Copy (Hardcover)

Who were the people who lived in Tropical North Queensland before the arrival of Europeans? How did they live in the rainforest, and what sort of culture did they develop?

Bama Bulmba gives an accessible and fascinating introduction to the way of life of the Bama, the Indigenous Australian Rainforest people of Tropical North Queensland, prior to the advent of European settlement from 1864.

In the region that became the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (WTWHA) in 1988, from Cardwell in the south to Cooktown in the north, the original lifestyles of the Buluwai, Djabugay, Dyirbal, Girramay, Gunggay, Kuku Yalanji, Yidiny and Yirrgay tribes is presented togetherwith an insight into their remarkable use of their tropical rainforest, coastal and sea country environments.

Historian Dr Timothy Bottoms has been researching and writing on Rainforest Aboriginal People a swell as Far North Queensland history for over thirty-five years.