I'll keep an eye out for this book. Sounds like it will be a fantastic (though also potentially harrowing) read

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/10/a-piece-of-red-cloth-yolngu-indigenous-history-merrkiyawuy-ganambarr-stubbs-leonie-norrington

#StoryTelling #Yolŋu #Book

See the entire collection of photographs from Garma Festival 2024: https://ausgeo.co/garma2024

Garma Festival, Australia’s largest Indigenous gathering, has just concluded its four-day celebration of Yolŋu life and culture.

Hosted by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, the festival showcases traditional miny’tji (art), manikay (song), bunggul (dance) and storytelling. It is also an important meeting point for the regions’ clans and families.

🎥 Leicolhn McKellar, Nina Franova, Teagan Glenane & Melanie Faith Dove via Garma Festival

#garmafestival2024 #garma #garmafestival #firstnations #aboriginal #photography #culture #yolnu
#activism #civilrights #government #indigenous #indigenouspeoples #photography

You reckon the LLM search plugins get the Yolŋu naming protocols right for Yunupingu?

I suspect even the prompted QA Google shows might be offensive.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/03/yunupingu-yolu-leader-and-campaigner-for-indigenous-rights-dies-aged-74

#llm #colonialism #Yolŋu

The great man, recently passed, of North East Arnhem Land, spent his lifetime explaining to the world the #Yolŋu worldview.

Yunupingu himself explains “we seek that moment in the ceremonial cycle where all is equal and in balance. Where older men have guided the younger ones and, in turn, taken knowledge from their elders; where no one is better than anyone else, everyone is equal, performing their role and taking their duties and responsibilities – then the ceremony is balanced and the clan moves in unison: there is no female, no male, no little ones and no big ones; we are all the same.”

This is yothu yindi.
Balance. Wholeness. Completeness.

Just as these great clans are bound to each other for all time, so too are all those that now call #Australia home. Together we must secure a future for Australia in which we can find harmony and balance between all the people of this nation. – Taken from his final public statement, delivered to parliament by the Labor senator Pat Dodson.

Wanha! Journey to Arnhem at the Opera House forecourt tonight

#Wanha! #Yolŋu #ArnhemLand #OperaHouseSydney #Sydney