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- Tags: Land custodianship
Namoi: Oral History of Phil Duncan
Phil Duncan is an Aboriginal man with both Wiradjuri and Gamilaraay heritage. He identifies predominantly as a Gamilaraay man who grew up in Moree in northern New South Wales. Born in 1963, Phil is Chair of the First…
Tags: Aboriginal art, Aboriginal spirituality, Aquifers--Australia, Coalbed methane, Connection to country, Cotton, Cultural flows, Ecological sustainability, Environmental conservation, Floods, Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi language, Indigenous peoples, Land custodianship, Namoi, Places of significance, Racism, Riparian areas, Salinisation, Siltation, Traditional ecological knowledge, Water pollution, Water quality, Water--Symbolic aspects, Weirs, Wiradjuri people
Position: 13 (278 views)
Upper Murrumbidgee: Oral History of Adrian Brown
Adrian talks about growing up along the River (around Queanbeyan River, Jumping Creek, and Wanna Wanna Creek) and the way that he and his brother learnt the land by walking it and fishing the river…
Tags: Aboriginal culture, Burial sites, Communities, Connection to country, Cultural flows, Fish populations, Indigenous peoples, Kurnai / Gunai people, Land custodianship, Murrumbidgee, Ngarigo / Ngarigu people, Ngunawal / Ngunnawal people, Places of significance, Siltation, Totems, Traditional ecological knowledge, Traditional fishing, Walgalu / Walgal people, Wiradjuri people
Position: 24 (186 views)
Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Henry Jones
Born in 1941, Henry is a sixth generation commercial fisher, and also ran a yabby restaurant for thirty years. He talks about learning to fish from his father, a commercial fisherman at Renmark, in the…
Tags: Aboriginal spirituality, Aquifers--Australia, Barrages, Coorong, Cultural flows, Dams--Australia, Ecological sustainability, Fishes--Breeding, Fishing industry, Fishing regulations, Floods, Irrigation, Land custodianship, Livestock, Professional fisher, Restoration ecology, Riparian areas, River engineering, Salinisation, Siltation, Sustainable fisheries, Traditional ecological knowledge, Water quality
Position: 140 (78 views)
Culgoa - Balonne: Oral History of Robert Lacey
Robert Lacey is an Indigenous man who has resided in the St George area in southern Queensland most his life. His people are the traditional owners of the land: his mother is a Mandandanji woman, while…
Tags: Aboriginal fish traps, Aboriginal history, Activism, Connection to country, Cotton, Culgoa-Balonne, Deforestation, Dreaming (Spiritual), Droughts, Erosion, Fishes--Identification, Indigenous peoples, Introduced species, Land custodianship, Mandandanji (Australian people), Native plants, Places of significance, Salinisation, Stream restoration, Waka Waka / Wakka Wakka people, Water allocations, Water conservation, Water pollution, Water quality
Position: 48 (130 views)
Anabranch: Oral History of Jenny Whyman
Nations Committee (NBAN).
Born in 1956, Jenny talks about families and growing up on the river at a camp on the Darling at…
Tags: Aboriginal history, Anabranch, Connection to country, Cotton, Crustaceans, Cultural flows, Droughts, Fishes--Identification, Indigenous foods, Indigenous peoples, Land custodianship, Native animals, Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji people, Traditional ecological knowledge, Water allocations, Weirs
Position: 94 (99 views)