Sunday 4th July marked the start of NAIDOC Week 2021. ❤💛🖤
This year the theme ‘Heal Country’ calls for all of us to continue to seek greater protections for our lands, our waters, our sacred sites and our cultural heritage from exploitation, desecration, and destruction. We can all learn from our First Nations people about the importance of Country – that it is more than a place and inherent to our identity.
While many planned events have been postponed due to the current COVID situation, this week is still an important time to pause, reflect and learn. Here on Biripi and Worimi Country the Aboriginal language is Gathang. 𝒘𝒊𝒚𝒂𝒃𝒖: 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐. 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒚𝒂 𝒏𝒚𝒖𝒓𝒂 𝒘𝒖𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒚𝒏: 𝒈’𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈? 𝒈𝒂𝒑𝒖: 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒃𝒚𝒆.
You can read more about the revitalisation of Gathang language here: ‘𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑦’ https://ab.co/3wfieR5
You can also visit https://www.naidoc.org.au for the top 20 tips on how to celebrate a covidsafe NAIDOC Week and a range of other great resources.
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