Topics: Culture
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2008 - North West - view
“When the moon cried and formed Moon Lagoon, Belmont”
2008 - North West - view
“Water Monsters” of Freeman’s Waterhole
2008 - North West - view
customary pathways
2008 - North West - view
cultural camping complex identifies cultural heritage and pathways across the wider Finchley area
2008 - North West - view
Finchley’s numerous engraving and art sites
2008 - North West - view
Biame’s cave at Milbrodale
2008 - North West - view
Lizard Rock near Broke
2008 - North West - view
Legend of the Lizard
2008 - North West - view
A yellow rock near Broke is its head and the ridgeline between the two sites is its body
2008 - North West - view
Tom Miller and Victor Perry identify pathways and creation stories associated with the Burning Mountain at Wingen
2008 - North West - view
Gamilaraay raiding party to Broke to steal women for wives
2008 - North West - view
In ancient times, Wa-boo-ee, the demon-spirit of the Wollombi tribe who controlled the seasons, springs from Devil’s Rock to land on Mt Yengo and step up into the sky. Another creation story is associated with the pathways of Tiddalik, a giant frog who lived in the Wollombi Valley and drank more than his share of the Wollombi Brook
2009 - North Coastal - view
Koori diets are now much the same as everyone else’s.
2009 - North West - view
lore sites, including rock engravings and cave paintings within the Wollombi and Broke valleys
2009 - North West - view
The Biame cave is also protected
2009 - South West - view
sacred Gurangatch holes
2009 - North Coastal - view
Growing recognition of Guringai Heritage by descendants in Guringai country.
Many people of Indigenous descent are recognised by local councils. The 2009 chairperson since 2004 of the Guringai Link Aboriginal Corporation is Tracey Howie, a descendant of Sophie, Matora’s daughter and Charlotte Ashby, Bungaree’s grand daughter. Lynne Stewart is a descendant of Bungaree. Patsy Cohen is a descendant of Bungaree and Maria. Warren Whitfield is a descendant of Charlotte Ashby.
Tracey Howie, Chairperson of the Guringai Link Aboriginal Corporation, explains the difficulty of demonstrating identity under the Native Title Act of NSW.
Tracey Howie:
That’s another argument with Native Title in NSW. As we know. We, Sydney mob, we were the hardest hit. They came in and they either killed us, or they bred it out of us, or they disease-riddened us, and all of our culture, all of our language, everything was outlawed. It became illegal, and there are, that proof is still there of those laws that were brought in. So how can we, therefore, prove Native Title when, had our ancestors done that, [publicly identified themselves as Koori people we wouldn’t be alive today. So it contradicts it. Native Title Law contradicts itself. How can you do it? You can’t.
I’d like to you know, elaborate, you know, when people say ‘the Stolen Generations’, it’s not taking anything away from the people who were removed from their families, but it goes deeper than just being the removal of a person, of a body. It was the removal of our culture the removal of our song, the removal of our dance, our language. Everything. It was all stolen. Not just the children. Everything was stolen.