The Maikulan were an
indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. The ...
people of the state of
Queensland
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. They have sometimes been confused with the
Maithakari.
Name
According to an earlier resident of the area, the tribal
autonym
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* Autonym, the name used by a person to refer to themselves or their language; see Exonym and endonym
* Autonym (botany), an automatically created infrageneric or infraspecific name
See also
* Nominotypical subspecies, in zo ...
referred to the
native brushturkey.
Country
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians ...
calculated that they had roughly of territory, from
the middle Norman,
Yappar and
Clara rivers northwards to Milgarra. Their eastern boundary lay near the
Gregory Range, while the western frontier was at
Iffley
Iffley is a village in a designated Conservation area (United Kingdom), conservation area in Oxfordshire, England. It lies within the boundaries of the city of Oxford, between Cowley, Oxfordshire, Cowley and the estates of Rose Hill, Oxford, Rose ...
and
Canobie.
History of contact
With the onset of white settlement, the tribe's demographic statistics suggested an original population of some 400 people. Within two decades, the numbers had been halved, with 200 remaining, as a result of what one observer stated was 'the rifle and syphilis'. A branch of the Maikulan soon shifted down the
Norman River to settle around
Normanton, which misled some early reports to take them to be indigenous to the latter area.
Alternative names
* ''Maikulung, Maikolon''
* ''Makulu''
* ''Mygoolan, Mykoolan, Mycoolon, Micoolan, Miccoolin, Mikkoolan, Mikoolun''
* ''Mykulau'' (typo)
Source:
Some words
* ''meekoolan'' (white man)
* ''mirage'' (mother)
* ' (father)
* ' (wild/tame dog)
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland