Hopevale, Queensland
Hopevale, also Hope Vale or Hopevale mission called, is an Aboriginal mission in Queensland, Australia with 765 residents. It is situated on the Cape York Peninsula about 46 km north-west of Cooktown. The result is the development of earlier missions.
History
The Cape Bedford Mission Station, which was led by the Evangelical Lutheran Church, was built in 1886 on the beach as Elim Aboriginal Mission.
As has been suggested that the Aborigines cooperate with the invading Japanese in the Second World War, the entire population was further displaced by the military in various Aboriginal communities in the south of Australia, and the German Evangelical Lutheran Church missionaries were sent to internment camps. Most Aboriginal people of this mission were sent to Woorabinda in Rockhampton in Queensland. Within a month after the deportation of 28 Aboriginal and over the next eight years, 235 Aborigines in Woorabinda, almost a quarter of the original community died.
Hope Vale was taken by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in September 1949 again. One group of workers of the Aborigines in 1949 allowed to return from Woorabinda. The first families came back in 1950. Subsequently, the Aborigines from the Hope Valley and the Cape Bedford mission settled there. In the absence of sufficient potable water at the Elim Aboriginal Mission, the community went about 20 km inland, to settle there.
After 1949
Hopevale was no longer operated after 1949 as a mission station, but by the self-elected Community Council.
1961 there was a lawsuit for an abuse of two Aborigines in court. The prosecution led the lawyer and left-wing politicians Fred Paterson.
The Aboriginal Land Act 1991 of Queensland transferred the indigenous owners of a former land reserve as Dogit -demand ( Deed of Grant in Trust). "The Warra people of the Hopevale Community of Eastern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland received acknowledgment of Their native title rights in December 1997. The determination Recognised rights of exclusive possession, occupation use and enjoyment over 110,000 ha ( Native Title determination, Warra Peoples, Hope Vale community of Cape York ( NNTT QC96/15 ) ) "
Hopevale is a home of various clan groups, one of which also dominate most Guugu Yimidhirr and other Australian languages and English.
Famous people
Famous former residents of Hopevale are
- Matt Bowen, rugby player
- Noel Pearson, a lawyer and activist for the Aborigines. Pearson also criticized the ruling power in this community.
On 21 July 2008 the community of Hope Vale Indigenous Knowledge and the community Technology Centre ( IKTC ) opened, Jack Bambie building. This center operates a library service, training area and a public Internet terminal.