Geynyan

{{Short description|Aboriginal Australian people}} {{See also|Geynyan language}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2011}} The '''Geynyon''', also written Keinjan,{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=175}} are an [[indigenous Australian]] people of [[South East Queensland|southern Queensland]]. According to research done by Queensland South Native Title Services entitled South East Regional Research Project 'Geynyan' are in all likelihood a dialect/estate group of the wider Githabul peoples. In May 2021 the Githabul peoples lodged a Native Title claim (Waringh Waringh) over much of the former Warwick Shire within the Southern Downs Regional Council area.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/warwick/warwicks-githabul-community-celebrate-landmark-steps-in-native-title-claim-after-yearslong-battle-for-recognition/news-story/4648f6fa3242f5ad85e345ca4c6d3d81}}</ref>

==Country== The Geynyon, according to the estimation of [[Norman Tindale]], had {{convert|1400|mi2|km2}} of territory.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=175}} They ranged from [[Stanthorpe, Queensland|Stanthorpe]] just north of the border with [[New South Wales]] to around [[Hendon, Queensland|Hendon]] and [[Allora, Queensland|Allora]], which formed their northern limit. To the east, their lands extended as far as the [[Great Dividing Range]]. Their western frontier lay around Herries Range and beyond Thane, including [[Warwick, Queensland|Warwick]] and the area close to [[Leyburn, Queensland|Leyburn]]. [[Robert Hamilton Mathews|R. H. Mathews]] also claimed [[Inglewood, Queensland|Inglewood]] was part of their territory, which Tindale did not accept.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=175}} In Margaret Sharpe's map of Bundjalung dialects, based on the work of [[Terry Crowley]], the Logan River marked their eastern border with the [[Yugambeh people|Yugambeh]], while their southern frontier with the [[Githabul]] lay just beyond [[Killarney, Queensland|Killarney]].{{sfn|Sharpe|1985|p=101}}

==Alternative names== * ''Gee-en-yun'' * ''Wawpa'' (This was an [[exonym]] for their language, which was also applied by tribes in the area of the [[Darling Downs]] to the [[Giabal]] and others.)

Source: {{harvnb|Tindale|1974|p=175}}

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==Sources== {{refbegin}} *{{Cite journal | title = Ngarrabul and other aboriginal tribes: distribution of tribes | last = MacPherson | first = J. | journal = [[Linnean Society of New South Wales|Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales]] | year = 1904 | volume = 29 | pages = 677–684 | doi = 10.5962/bhl.part.20175 | url = https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6327477 }} *{{Cite journal | title = Notes on the aborigines of the Northern Territory, Western Australia, and Queensland | last = Mathews | first = R. H. | author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews | journal = Queensland Geographical Journal | year = 1907 | volume = 22 | pages = 74–86 | url = https://archive.org/download/queenslandgeogra20roya/queenslandgeogra20roya.pdf }} *{{Cite journal | title = Bundjalung Settlement and Migration | last = Sharpe | first = Margaret C. | journal = [[Aboriginal History]] | year = 1985 | volume = 9 | issue = 1 | pages = 101–124 | url = http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p71761/pdf/article063.pdf }} *{{Cite book | chapter = Keinjan (QLD) | last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974 | author-link = Norman Tindale | title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names | publisher = [[ANU Press|Australian National University Press]] | chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/keinjan.htm | archive-date = 21 March 2018 | access-date = 19 October 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180321012939/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/keinjan.htm | url-status = dead }} {{refend}}

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