Cultural Awareness

Q&A Week 7: Wasn’t Aboriginal society pretty barbaric?

Q19. Was there any barter or trading between different Aboriginal people? Q20. Wasn't Aboriginal...

Q&A Week 6: Why won’t Aboriginal kids go to school?

Q16. Are Aboriginal people bad at school because they didn't have their own education system trad...

Q&A Week 5: Why do many Aboriginal people eat such poor food?

Q13. What is the Yolŋu concept of illness and disease? Q14. Why do many remote Aboriginal people...

Q&A Week 4: Aren’t Aboriginal languages very basic?

Q10. After all the millions of dollars spent on Aboriginal health and education why haven’t the p...

Q&A Week 3; “How many times do we have to say sorry to Aboriginal people?”

Q7. “I know that a lot of really terrible things happened, but how many times do we have to say s...

Q&A Week 2 Aboriginal peoples use of fire.

Q4. How did Aboriginal people use fire to look after the land? Q.5 Are traditional methods and k...

Week 1. Aboriginal people primitive?

Q1. “Aboriginal people were so primitive they didn’t even invent the wheel”. Well, who did? Q.2 T...

Meaning of some Yolngu Matha Terms

Yolngu Matha ( human tongue) is the collective name for the languages of the Yolngu (Yolŋu), the ...

Australia Has Its Own “Haka”

As a number of Yolŋu watched Adam Goodes perform his "war cry" or "haka" on TV after he kicked th...

Learn Yolngu Culture

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Ŋäṉḏi

“I call you ŋäṉḏi, you call me waku. I am your daughter.” That was the moment when I stepped into...

Why learn an Aboriginal language?

Learning an Aboriginal language has so many advantages that you could write a book about it. Sadl...