Beschreibung:
A wonderfully engaging and heartening account of a successful Aboriginal community based at a beautiful beach site in Arnhem Land. Bawaka Country refers to the diverse land, water, animals, plants, rocks, thoughts, and songs that make up their Indigenous homeland of Bawaka. Theirs is a story of lives entwined and of new places of being and belonging. Welcome to My Country is also a collaborative narrative of unexpected transformations, embedded families, and the spirituality and agency of non-human elements in and of the landscape.
Contents..Rangan (paperbark) Hidden layers of Yolngu meaning..1 Gapu (water) A system for everything..2 Miyapunu [turtle] Counting and sharing..3 Banumbirr (the morning star) Astronomy and Space..4 Gara (spear) The sharp end of hunting and justice..5 Walu (the sun) Moon and tides and sisters seven..6 Baru (crocodile) Rain, tears, the eye of the fire..7 Gurrutu (kinship) Layers of connection and belonging..8 Ganguri (yam) Bush foods and natural farming..Djapana (sunset) Endings..