Qualla: Kaurareg https://qualla.com/kaurareg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Kaurareg https://qualla.com/kaurareg Kaurareg: Introduction https://qualla.com/kaurareg/ Kaurareg marine lore teaches that one can fish successfully only when one is hungry. It is a principle of restraint, embedded in a culture that has read the tides of the Torres Strait for thousands of years -- distinguishing at least six different kinds -- and punished over-hunting long before European concepts of sustainability existed. The Kaurareg are the traditional owners of Waiben, the island the British named Thursday Island, and of Muralag, Nurupai, and a constellation of smaller islands scattered between Cape York and New Guinea. Their story is one of survival against extraordinary and deliberate cruelty.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/j/5/kaurareg-wp/rnj5-kaurareg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kaurareg: Traders of the Strait https://qualla.com/kaurareg/ The Kaurareg are lower Western Islanders, part of a network of five distinct ethno-cultural groups that made up the traditional world of the Torres Strait. Though conflict between groups was common, it never disrupted the intricate trading system that linked all the island people...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/j/5/kaurareg-wp/rnj5-kaurareg-traders-of-the-strait.mp3 0:06 2 full Kaurareg: The Castaway and the Anthropologist https://qualla.com/kaurareg/ In 1844, a woman named Barbara Thompson survived the wreck of a ship off Nurupai -- Horn Island. The Kaurareg took her in, treating her as the markai, or ancestral spirit, of an elder's deceased daughter. She lived among them for five years before being found by the crew of HMS R...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/j/5/kaurareg-wp/rnj5-kaurareg-the-castaway-and-the-anthropologist.mp3 0:06 3 full Kaurareg: The Sperwer and the Reprisals https://qualla.com/kaurareg/ In April 1869, the schooner Sperwer was attacked off Muralag, and its captain, James Gascoyne, along with his crew of seven, were killed. Three Kaurareg men were captured and executed. But the violence did not stop there. Frank Jardine, the local pastoralist and government admini...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/n/j/5/kaurareg-wp/rnj5-kaurareg-the-sperwer-and-the-reprisals.mp3 0:06 4 full Kaurareg: Displaced and Returned https://qualla.com/kaurareg/ By the 1880s, Kaurareg survivors numbered perhaps a hundred. Over the following decades, they were forcibly relocated -- first to Hammond Island, then to Moa Island in the 1920s, and to Coconut Island. An Anglican missionary, Canon John Done, noted their desperate condition in 19...

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