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This short film explains the sounds associated with the consonant-vowel syllable pattern in Goldfields Aboriginal languages. Enjoy and check out our YouTube channel for more new films each week!

Music video created in Lajamanu with WYDAC while running youth engagement programs

Two men of the Yirritja moiety perform the "Salt water dance", leaping past one another, representing waves meeting and crashing; the dancers constantly leap up and down, representing a choppy sea. The women dance along the side, their hands held horizontally. The men then run …

The men of each of the two moiety groups (Yirritja and Dua) run around their respective "Jirawara" ceremonial forked poles; the leader of their moiety then climbs on the "Jirawara" and gives the Mardayin calls, naming the sacred places connected with the ceremony; the men …

Men and women, painted with red and yellow ochres, walk towards the seashore to the sound of clapsticks. Every few metres the men of each moiety, supported by their women, do their typical dances with ceremonial cries. Having arrived at the water's edge the men plunge in and …

Men of the Yirritja moiety enter the ceremonial ground to the sound of clapsticks, lightly hopping on each leg, a dance associated with the Catfish totem; they group around the "Jirawara" ceremonial forked pole which is the focal point of the ceremony and perform the Bandicoot …

Men of the Yirritja moiety, painted with red ochre and white clay, emerge from the secret ground and perform the dance associated with the Catfish totem, with light steps, hopping on each leg; this is followed by the Bandicoot totem dance, where they sit on their haunches, moving …

Every late afternoon during the weeks the "Mardayin" or "Ngarrag" ceremony takes place, the men paint up and perform various totem dances in their respective moiety groups (Dua and Yirritja) Some men have ceremonial "power bags" in their mouths. The ceremonies start with the …

Brace yourselves for the best curry I’ve ever cooked for you to enjoy too!! Turning a boneless Lamb leg roast into Rogan Josh w/potatoes!! ? Shout out to the cousin Senio Toleafoa playing ProD2 Rugby in France for Nevers rugby club, proud husband & dad that loves to cook for …

Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD was initiated by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) 11 years ago. Since then it has grown to become a national celebration of First Nations Peoples' Stories, Cultures, and Languages. The ILD National Digital Event is an opportunity for all …

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Aboriginal cattlemen are coming back to the Kimberley... In the second part of this story we meet up and coming station manager Robin Yeeda from Halls Creek, KIMSS trainee Ivan Bridge, Manager of Mowanjum Station Keith Nenowatt and Mowanjum Committee member Penny Bidd, along …

Aboriginal cattlemen are coming back to the Kimberley... In Part One of this two part story we meet Indigenous leader Dicky Cox from Noonkanbah, Kimberley stockman and rodeo rider Colin Fuller and new station manager Dwayne Donation from Mt Barnett Station. The Kimberley …

Auntie Junie Pederson has spent many decades cooking at stock camps at cattle stations all around Australia's wild Kimberley region. In this video she and her old friend Roy Wilson make one of Junie's famous Kimberley stock camp stews.

Auntie Junie Pederson has spent many decades cooking at stock camps at cattle stations all around Australia's wild Kimberley region. In this video she and her old friend Roy Wilson make one of Junie's famous Kimberley dampers.

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