Topics: Culture
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2009 - North Coastal - view
On the Central coast and near Wyong, The families continue to meet every year for Christmas at Patonga Camping ground, near where Bungaree was born. Women remember old customs like jumping naked in the river on New Year’s night. No men allowed! They remember being told about the last corroboree at Chittawai Point on Central Coast. They know where there are five sacred sites. Tracey Howie says “Our concepts of traditional custodianship are that we didn’t inherit anything, it is our job to protect the land, we are borrowing it for our children”
2009 - North Coastal - view
Now in its ninth year, the Guringai Festival celebrates Aboriginal culture and heritage, honouring the traditional homelands of the Guringai people. It aims to raise awareness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the Northern Sydney region and involves ten councils. Festival events include guided tours of Aboriginal sites, bushwalks, exhibitions and screenings.
The Festival coincides with the International Year of Astronomy enabling Koories to participate with many Dreaming stories about the relationship between ancestral beings, the sun, moon, stars and planets.
2009 - North Coastal - view
Memorandum of Understanding is signed between The Northern Beaches Aboriginal Education Consultative Committee and the NSW Dept of Community and Aged Care to put in place strategy for caring for aged Aboriginal people in area. This was carried out at a Community Consultation meeting at Ingleside with a smoking ceremony by Les de Jong.
2009 - North Coastal - view
Lois Birk gives an acknowledgement of country at the Northern Beaches Annual General Meeting of the Aboriginal education Consultative Group. She says “We acknowledge that we are on Guringai country at Stoney Range Reserve, Dee Why. We will listen to each other. We walk softly and gently and pay homage to Indigenous people of all nations. We respect the spirits of this place”.
2010 - North West - view
Aboriginal cultural revival movement
2010 - North West - view
a possum skin cloak along the lines of the “Hunter River Cloak”
2010 - South Coastal - view
story of the warrior’s death
2011 - North West - view
Reinvigoration of possum skin cloak making
2011 - North West - view
Cultural and Community Centre Consultation Workshops
2011 - North West - view
Gorri and Kool-chee Kool-chee
2012 - South Coastal - view
Reconciliation Week
2012 - South Coastal - view
1967 Referendum
2012 - South Coastal - view
Mabo
2012 - South Coastal - view
NAIDOC week
2012 - North West - view
honouring the memory of an Aboriginal Elder