TheGangulu people, also writtenKangulu,Kaangooloo,Ghungalu and other variations, are anAboriginal Australian people from theMount Morgan area inQueensland, Australia.
At least one variant name for the Kangulu,Kaangooloo, was formed from the word for "no",ka:ngu.[1]
The Gangulu language is considered to be a dialect ofBiri, belonging to theGreater Maric languages.[2][3]
Gangulu traditional lands occupied an estimated 16,000 square kilometres (6,000 sq mi) about theDawson River as far south asBanana andTheodore. To the northwest, they extended as far as theMackenzie River and the vicinity ofDuaringa and Coomooboolaroo. Their eastern frontier lay towardsBiloela,Mount Morgan,Gogango Range, and theupper Don River.Thangool and the headwaters of Grevillea Creek marked its southeastern limits.[1]
A correspondent ofE. M. Curr, Peter McIntosh, a resident of the area, stated that the Gangulu were a confederation of several groups, the main ones being the Karranbal, the Maudalgo, and the Mulkali.[4] No further data were recorded to enable ethnographerNorman Tindale to clarify the precise nature of the last two groups,[1] but theAUSTLANG database byAIATSIS reports that the Karranbal is the Garaynbal (Garingbal) dialect ofBiri[5] and Maudalgo is a variant name of theWadjigu language and people, a separate group from the Biri, who spoke aBidjara dialect.[6] Mulkali is not further described.
Along with many other remnants of Queensland tribes who had lost their traditional lands to colonial pastoralists, members of the Kangulu moved to theCherbourg settlement.[7]