Topics: Culture
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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.
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
Cultural Days of Significance
2012 - South Coastal - view
Sorry Day
2012 - South Coastal - view
Reconciliation Week
2012 - South Coastal - view
1967 Referendum
2012 - South Coastal - view
Mabo