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YouTube - ididjaustralia's Channel "The ididjaustralia channel aims to provide the most extensive video content anywhere on the internet for those interested in the Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo and its place in 'Top End' Indigenous culture." from: iDIDJ Australia - Didgeridoo Cultural Hub of Australia
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Indigenous Stock Exchange: Home Page The ISX generally eschews government support. It tries to find non-bureaucratic ways to support Aboriginal people and communities. Our online and community trading floors are free places to market ideas and investment opportunities.
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Top End and Arnhem Land - Aboriginal Art Online
'The Yolngu of north east Arnhem Land are amongst the most powerful and culturally committed of Australia's indigenous nations. For probably four hundred years before white men appeared on their shores, they hosted visiting fishing fleets from Indonesia who made temporary villages and traded cloth, metal and foods whilst gathering and processing beche-de-mer, or trepang, the prized sea slug which is a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. The many clans have maintained their hunting and fishing economy, whilst carrying on their rich ceremonial lives to the present day.'
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YouTube - Australian Aboriginal Genocide Please note that all of the info presented came from Australian government sources.
from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7eubc-Yk3M
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>>>Aboriginal Art & Culture: an American eye | Indigenous Australian ... Readings, reviews, and reflections by an American observer of Australian Indigenous art, culture, politics, anthropology, music, and literature. >>Australian Humanities Review: Ways of Thinking and Ways of Being ... from: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com/
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Protocols - NSW Reconciliation Council<<<click
"Protocols are the standards of behaviour that people use to show respect to each other. Every culture has different ways of communicating, and in order to be able to work with someone from a different culture in a respectful way then you need to understand how people from that culture communicate."(from: reconciliaction.org.au)
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The Indigenous Art Code (the Code) aims to ensure fair trade with Indigenous artists. www.indigenousartcode.org/
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RECONCILIATION Reconciliation Australia Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...<clickwww.reconciliation.org.au/
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Yirrkala artists Everywhen -<<<Click
from: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/.../Yirrkala-artists-Education-Kit-2009-FINAL.pdf
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From Dull to Brilliant The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power among the Yolngu (Howard )... The anthropology of art: a reader - Resultaten voor Zoeken naar boeken met Google Morgan Perkins, Howard Morphy - 2006 - Social Science - 566 pagina’s
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Garma Festival of Traditional Culture -
“A garma is a sort of place – of rich resources for many people, this garma thing. For all yolngu [people]. Like this, all yolngu always used to come to this thing garma, coming together, all different groups.” Gunygulu Yunupingu ...
The ancient sound of the yidaki (didgeridu) is a call to all people to come together in unity. This call will announce the annual Garma, the largest and most vibrant celebration of Yolngu culture in recent memory.
1999-2010 - KEY FORUM - Garma Festival -
Bush symposia kindles a spirit of dignity, celebration, inquiry and adventure
The theme of the 2006 forum is Indigenous education and
training and at the invitation of Garma’s founder, the Yothu
Yindi Foundation, the University’s School for Social and
Policy Research (SSPR) is coordinating dozens of workshops,
presentations, panel discussions and learning exchanges
over three days. As CDU’s Vice Chancellor puts it, ‘Garma
is our symposia of the bush’.
The need to maintain Indigenous cultural heritage, and the
imperative to educate the children, is provoking stimulating
debate. Currently 65 per cent of Indigenous people are
younger than 25 years; they will account for more than half
the Territory’s population by 2020, and at current rates, they
will be the most poorly educated group. Yolngu people want
equal opportunities, in parallel with the Balanda — the Top
End’s word for non-Indigenous Territorians.
from: www.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/origins/edition2-2006/origins-garma.pdf
Stories of success and hope from Yolngu country
Garma festival 2007
The Key Forum works to help create a reality for Indigenous
people that is very different from the file footage trotted out
by news outlets, of Indigenous communities annihilated by
substance abuse and violence.
The line-up of speakers at the Key Forum spans the prominent
and not-so-prominent players involved in Indigenous affairs.
It includes Indigenous people addressing a 400-strong
audience for the first time in a language not their own –
English. We hear from the authors of the Little Children are
Sacred report, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island
Commissioner, Inuit people from northern Canada, an
Olympic Gold medalist working in health, women working
on traditional birthing, men who counter the stereotype
that all Aboriginal men are violent and/or sexual predators.
We hear from the grass-roots, from academics and advocates.
But most importantly, we hear from Indigenous people about
what they are doing and what they need. These are the
stories that rarely, if ever, make it through the mainstream
media into the lounge rooms of ‘ordinary Australians’.
from: www.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/origins/.../origins-2-07-17-19.pdf -
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Encounter - 25 October 2009 - Caring for the Soul of the Country
Now, at the Garma Festival in Northeast Arnhemland there is a women's healing centre set up for local women and visiting cultural tourists. Based in Yirrkala, the healing centre is run by senior Yolgnu women, including Djapirri Mununggirrtj. It includes a program called Strong Women, Strong Babies, Strong Culture.
Dhanggal Gurruwiwi: The ladies up there have been doing it for a while. I call them the mothers [laughs]. And seeing the impact of everyone in the community, of grog and you name it, and they were concerned about it all. And they came up together, talked about it, and said that it's time for us to do something, step in and do what we have to do to get our...for the sake of our people as well as the children.
Gretchen Miller: So it runs all the time?
Dhanggal Gurruwiwi: It happens all the time back at the community.
Djapirri Mununggirritj : And one of the ones is through my program, Strong Women, Strong Babies, Strong Culture.
from: www.abc.net.au/rn/encounter/stories/2009/2724525.htm (+ Special Audio Downloads)
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GARMA FESTIVAL 2010
The vision of the Yothu Yindi Foundation is for Yolngu and other Indigenous Australians to have the same level of wellbeing and life opportunities and choices as non-Indigenous Australians.
“Garma is a vital element of achieving that vision,” says Mandawuy Yunupiu, founder of Garma and Deputy Chairman of the Foundation. “It is a vital part of our efforts to present, nurture and preserves traditional Yolngu culture”. “Art, language, the mountain of Yolngu knowledge – including healing and wellbeing – the spirituality, much of it borne of the land, is disappearing. Cultural traditions and practices of traditional dance, song, ceremony – our social rituals and belief expressions – are being lost, not passed on to the next generation. The bonds, the ties are being
broken. This cultural structure is vital for social cohesion, for holding communities and clans and families together and therefore for community development – and that includes economic development and even economic opportunities through that culture – and community wellbeing”.
from: www.garma.telstra.com/pdfs/2010/GF10BackgroundNotes.pdf
