Hope Vale, Queensland

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File:Indigenous community of the Hope Vale Mission, taken by George Schwarz, circa 1901.jpg
Indigenous members of the Hope Vale Mission, taken by George Schwarz, circa 1901
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Kids at Hope Vale Art Centre Opening. April, 2009
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Hope Vale Art Centre Opening April, 2009

Hope Vale (also written as Hopevale) is a town within the Aboriginal Shire of Hope Vale and a coastal locality split between the Aboriginal Shire of Hope Vale and the Shire of Cook, both in Queensland, Australia.[2][3][4] It is an Aboriginal community. In the Template:CensusAU, the locality of Hope Vale had a population of 1,004 people.[1]

Geography

Hope Vale is on Cape York Peninsula about Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Cooktown by road, and about Script error: No such module "convert". off the Battlecamp Road that leads to Rinyirru National Park and Laura.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The port at Cape Flattery is immediately offshore from Hope Vale (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[5] It has a Script error: No such module "convert". jetty with conveyor belt to load ships with silica sand from the Cape Flattery mine. It has a second wharf for import of fuel and other supplies needed by the mine. It is operated by Ports North, which has its headquarters in Cairns.[6]

History

Guugu Yimithirr (also known as Koko Yindjir, Gugu Yimidhirr, Guguyimidjir) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Hope Vale and the Cooktown area. The language region includes the local government area of the Aboriginal Shire of Hope Vale and the Shire of Cook, particularly the localities of Cape Bedford, Battle Camp and sections of the Normanby River and Annan River.[7]

Johann Flierl, a missionary of the Lutheran Church, established the Elim Aboriginal Mission (1895) on the beach of the north shore of Cape Bedford, and the Cape Bedford Mission (1886) nearby.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". While it initially flourished, Elim's future became grim and the people were relocated to Hope Vale.

Owing to fears that the German-influenced Aboriginal people might cooperate with the advancing Japanese in World War II, the total population of 286 was evacuated south to various communities by the military in May 1942. The German Lutheran missionaries were sent to internment camps. Most of the people were sent to Woorabinda, near Rockhampton, in Queensland, where a large number reportedly perished from disease and malnutrition.[8] Hope Vale was re-established as a Lutheran mission in September 1949. Aboriginal people from the Hope Valley and Cape Bedford Missions settled there. A work crew was allowed to return in 1949 and the first families came home in 1950.

Hopevale Post Office opened on 1 May 1965 and closed in 1990.[9]

Due to a lack of reliable water supplies at Elim, and the establishment of a government funded school in Hope Vale itself, the community was shifted about inland to its present site.[10]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Hope Vale is the oldest continuing mission community in North Queensland.[10]

On 21 July 2008, the Hope Vale community opened the Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Centre, later renamed the Indigenous Knowledge Centre. It was established in partnership with Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council, the State Library of Queensland, Dot Com Mob, SJB Architects, Work Ventures, and the AMP Foundation.[11]

Demographics

In the Template:CensusAU, the town of Hope Vale had a population of 974 people.[12]

In the Template:CensusAU, the locality of Hope Vale had a population of 1,015 people.[13]

In the Template:CensusAU, the locality of Hope Vale had a population of 1,004 people.[1]

Governance

Hopevale is no longer run as a mission by the church but by its own elected community council. In 1986 it received a "deed of grant in trust" (DOGIT) which "granted title to 110,000 ha of land which was previously Aboriginal Reserve Land held by the Under Secretary as trustee, to the community council to act as trustees of the land for the benefit of the residents."[14] The Aboriginal Land Act 1991 (Qld) transferred into Indigenous ownership all previous reserve land under DOGIT (Deed of Grant in Trust) titles.[15]

"The Warra people of the Hopevale Community of Eastern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland received acknowledgement of their native title rights in December 1997. The determination recognised rights of exclusive possession, occupation use and enjoyment over 110,000 ha."[16][17]

Education

Hope Vale has a primary (Preparatory to Year 6) campus of Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, which is on the corner of Thiele and Poland Streets (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[18] There are no secondary schoolsl in Hope Vale. The nearest government secondary school is Cooktown State School (to Year 12) in neighbouring Cooktown to the south. There are also non-government schools in Cooktown.[19]

Amenities

The Hope Vale community has a strong choral singing tradition since its evacuation to Woorabinda. The ensemble has performed at the Queensland Music Festival on three occasions—in 2005, 2007 and 2009.[20][21]

The Indigenous Knowledge Center is in the Jack Bambie building at 5 Muni Street. It provides a library service, training venue, and public Internet access.[22]

Notable people

  • Lawyer and activist Noel Pearson (born 1965), who has criticised the level of violence in the community.[23]

Gallery

See also

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References

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Further reading

  • McIvor, Roy (2010). Cockatoo: My Life in Cape York. Stories and Art. Roy McIvor. Magabala Books. Broome, Western Australia. Template:ISBN.
  • Pohlner, Howard, J. 1986. gangurru. Hopevale Mission Board, Milton, Queensland. Template:ISBN
  • Poland, Wilhelm. Loose leaves; reminiscences of a pioneer North Queensland Missionary. originally published as three booklets by The Mission Institute of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria, 1905–1912. Reprint: Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide. 1988. Template:ISBN
  • Roth, W. E. 1897. The Queensland Aborigines. 3 Vols. Reprint: Facsimile Edition, Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, W.A., 1984. Template:ISBN.
  • Sutton, Peter (ed). Languages of Cape York: Papers presented to a Symposium organised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. (1976). Template:ISBN.
  • Wynter, Jo and Hill, John. 1991. Cape York Peninsula: Pathways to Community Economic Development. The Final Report of The Community Economic Development Projects Cook Shire. Cook Shire Council.

External links

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