Kuku-Yalanjin

The Kuku-Yalanjin are an Aboriginal Australian rainforest people of Far North Queensland, whose traditional territory of some two thousand two hundred square miles covered the headwaters of the Palmer River, running east from Palmerville to Mount Lukin and across the southern and western slopes of the Dividing Range as far as the upper Mitchell River.

They had made the rainforest their home for at least four thousand years, living at high population density in semi-permanent bark huts called gunyahs and ordering the year into five seasons.

Their staple carbohydrate was the toxic seed of the cycad Cycas media, soaked to leach out the poison before cooking, supplemented by yams, bitter walnuts and candlenuts. Their traditional language was Guugu Yalandji, and they are closely related to the Wulpura people of the Mount Windsor rainforest plateau.