Topics: Culture
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North Coastal - view
sacred sites
South West - view
Glenda Chalker describes hopes to return to traditional fire practices, and the ways that her family are reclaiming other traditional ways
West - view
story teller explains that it is not just entertainment, there is a teaching in it as well. He goes on to play the story of the joey who couldn’t jump the fence on the didgeridoo.
South West - view
Auntie Frances Bodkin , speaking with Karen Maber , tells part one of the story of the lyrebird and how it came to speak all languages.
North Coastal - view
the knowledge that was taught to him as a child
North Coastal - view
cultural connection (with their knowledge of the land and bush foods)
North West - view
Liz Cameron describes the healing techniques she has learned and how they apply to individuals and communities: the importance of healing the person and the community through being on country, artistic process, intimacy and belonging
South Coastal - view
Uncle Greg calls it his “university campus”, because the elders taught him values and how to live – “how to drift with the tide” and “how to be in deep water”. Now, as an elder himself, it is his job to teach about these things. He tells the story from when he was eight and had an encounter with a spirit man who, gently, helped teach him to consider others and not let his anger get the better of him.
West - view
Darug through her mother’s side and Gandangara through her father’s . Dual descendance can cause friction among local communities who want people to be one or the other.
South West - view
These remains have now been returned to Australia and are waiting to be returned to their descendants.
North Coastal - view
land grant given to a non-Aboriginal person in 1813
South West - view
Mt Annan , where men and women had their own places, and how she came by one of her names
South Coastal - view
“In the old days it was the women that used to do all the bush tucker.” Auntie Pamela Young, ranger at Kamay National Park at Kurnell, teaches a group of children the many uses of the Lomandra plant. It can be used for food and for making bandages, baskets, belts, bangles, fly swatters, traps, bookmarks and paintbrushes.
South West - view
skeletal remains and indigenous artefacts that can be identified are returned. “We have been privileged on occasion to be invited to those funerals.”
North Coastal - view
middens, burials, shelters
South West - view
Aboriginal people during early settlement and in recent times have used European fears about quicksand
South Coastal - view
"They taught me how to be Aboriginal.”