Dalaipi

Dalaipi or Dalaipie (c. 1795 – c. 1863) was an Aboriginal Australian elder, a headman, guide, songman, mediator and philosopher in the Pine Rivers area north of Brisbane, Queensland.^[1] He was also known as Deliapee, Deliape, Dolaibi, Daleipy, Delaibi, and Dailpie.^[1]Dalaipi was a distinguished elder of the North Pine clan of the Turrbal people.^[2]

Dalaipi interacted with Andrew Petrie, one of Brisbane’s early settlers and helped to care for his son, Thomas.^[1][3][4] Details of his life and traditions were preserved in Thomas Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (1904).^[5][6] According to Petrie, Dalaipi was the head man of the North Pine tribe,^[7] located north of Brisbane.^[8][9][10] His mother tongue was probably Turrbal, Yugara, or Nalbo.^[1]

Between the 1850s and 1890s Christian missionaries in the region challenged Aboriginal spirituality.^[11][12]  Dalaipi was one of the authors, together with Dalinkua, of a series of statements that appeared in the local newspapers contrasting the settlers and missionaries religious teachings with their treatment of the local Aboriginal communities.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Kerkhove, Ray (2020). "Dalaipi (c. 1795–c. 1863)". Indigenous Australia, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
2. ^ "First nations". www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
3. ^ Dornan, Dimity, 1945-; Cryle, Denis, 1949- (1992), The Petrie family : building colonial Brisbane / Dimity Dornan, Denis Cryle ; drawings by Sue Hayne and Peter Dornan, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 0702223468, retrieved 31 March 2025 – via National Library of Australia{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
4. ^ Palmer, Nettie (13 August 1932). "SOME ADVENTURERS: VI - Tom Petrie". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 26, 831. Victoria, Australia. p. 10. Retrieved 9 May 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
5. ^ Petrie, Constance Campbell (1904). "Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland: Recorded by his daughter. (Constance Campbell Petrie)". gutenberg.net.au. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
6. ^ Van Toorn, Penny (2008). "Slave Brands or Cicatrices? Writing on Aboriginal Skin in "Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland"". Biography. 31 (2): 223–244. ISSN 0162-4962. JSTOR 23541027.
7. ^ Bond, Alex (2009). "The statesman, the warrior and the songman". AIATSIS Mura Collections Catalogue. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
8. ^ Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland, ed. Constance Campbell Petrie (1904), Ch. 21
9. ^ "In the olden time". The Bulletin. 26 (1311): 2. 30 March 1905 – via Trove.
10. ^ Kerkhove, Raymond Constant (2014). "A Different Mode of War? Aboriginal Guerilla Tacticss in Defining the Black Warr of Southern Queensland 1843-1855". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2502197. ISSN 1556-5068.
11. ^ Kerkhove, Ray. "Towards a Multi-Faith History of the Sunshine Coast". Australian Religion Studies Review. 17 (1): 69–93.
12. ^ Mudrooroo (1996-01-01). "Maban reality and shape-shifting the past: Strategies to sing the past our way". Critical Arts. 10 (2): 1–20. doi:10.1080/02560049685310111. ISSN 0256-0046.
13. ^ Dalinkua; Dalaipie (17 November 1858). "ABORIGINES". Moreton Bay Courier. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
14. ^ Dalaipie; Dalinkua (26 January 1859). "Original Correspondence Aborigines". Moreton Bay Courier. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
15. ^ Dalinkua; Dalaipia (24 November 1858). "ABORIGINES". The Moreton Bay Courier. Vol. XIII, no. 704. Queensland, Australia. p. 2. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
16. ^ Dalinqua; Dalaipie (29 December 1858). "ABORIGINES". The Moreton Bay Courier. Vol. XIII, no. 715. Queensland, Australia. p. 2. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
17. ^ Dalinkua; Dalaipie (8 January 1859). "ABORIGINES". The Moreton Bay Courier. Vol. XIII, no. 718. Queensland, Australia. p. 2. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via National Library of Australia.

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