Summary

Cherbourg is Queensland's third largest Aboriginal community with a population, as of 2011,1226 persons. It is located in the South Burnett region of Queensland, approximately 250km north-west of Brisbane. The area was known as Barambah until 1931 and founded by the Salvation Army as a settlement for Aboriginals in the early 1900s. From 1905 to 1939, under the Queensland government's policy of segregation, people were forcibly removed from their homes all over Queensland and 'settled' at Barambah. Aboriginals from 109 different areas were mixed together and prohibited from speaking their own language with the result that they lost their cultural heritage. It was not until 1967 that the Indigenous people of Cherbourg were even counted in the census. The main tribal groups of Cherbourg are the Wakka Wakka people and the Culidy people.

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Archival resources

National Centre for Indigenous Genomics

• Community Engagement-Cherbourg, 2014, COMENG-CHER; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Correspondence, 1969, 02D-37; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Growth Charts, 1963 - 1972, 06A-14; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Laboratory workbook, 1968, Lab-01-017; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• On the banks of the Barambah, PUB-007; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Photographs of the Community Engagement trip to Cherbourg, 03P-005; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Results Sheets, 1966, 06A-16; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
• Serology Results, 04D-25; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details