Topics: Culture: North West

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1941 - view

I still get a feeling of belonging when I go back, even though things have changed. But you can’t change the Spirit”

1943 - view

black tracker

1944 - view

Aboriginal burial ground south of Norah Head

1946 - view

Slowly Aborigines of the Hawkesbury filtered into the “outside world” and were absorbed into white society. Few, if any, relinguished their cultural heritage

1960 - view

Awabakal language, culture and history

1974 - view

frontier relations, customary medicine, firestick farming

1976 - view

Black Theatre. Gavi Duncan works as a DJ with Radio Redfern

1976 - view

NAISDA (Australia’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island contemporary dance company

1977 - view

reclaim sacred sites including within the Wattagans

1977 - view

Aboriginal language and culture

1977 - view

Tommy gives talking performances on Darkinung culture and goes to La Perouse where he sells boomerangs made near Tuggerah Lake

1977 - view

Aboriginal culture

1979 - view

Darkinjung, Wonnarua (Wannarua, Wannerawa) and Awabakal are “hardly more than dialects” of the same language. People who speak the language identify this to Mathews as Darkinjung

1980 - view

Aboriginal sites of significance

1980 - view

Indigenous people work to identify and struggle to protect significant Aboriginal sites

1980 - view

old burial ground

1982 - view

“Awabakal Voices” radio show

1982 - view

Reburial of Aboriginal remains at Darlington Estate , Singleton Heights

1982 - view

Aboriginal skeleton to be reburied in a recreation reserve

1982 - view

The remains are prepared in traditional style: wrapped in a cylinder of ti-tree bark bound in a spiral with leaves”