Lorna Schrieber was the Queen of the Gungganyji people. She was the daughter of Albert Myowe and the grand-daughter of Minminiy.
Schrieber lived with her family at Yarrabah mission, but children at the mission were required to live in the mission dormitories from the age of ten so Schrieber was forced to leave her family. In 1942, the mothers of the children living in the Yarrabah dormitories met with the North Queensland Bishop to plead for the return of the children to their care. They were successful, and Schrieber was able to rejoin her family when she was sixteen. Schrieber was taught the bush medicine by her family.
In 1956, Schrieber obtained an exemption ticket to leave Yarrabah so that she and her husband could give their children better education opportunities. Although she has lived in Cairns for many years, Schrieber has maintained the laws of her heritage and sense of Yarrabah as home.
In 1977, the Anglican Bishop of North Queensland, Right Reverend John Lewis, acknowledged Schrieber's status and anointed her as the Gungganyji Queen in a ceremony at St Alban's Church in Yarrabah.
