The Medicine Hoop

Healing Circle Pilliga Push Camp

I am born on the lands known today in the world as Australia.  I have connections to the four directions.  Yesterday I spent the afternoon creating with circles which I had created from Wisteria canes I had cut and soaked a couple of weeks ago. 

I wove a beautiful wheel and wove three Australia Eagle feathers to the bottom. These feathers were a gift from Merve who I met a few years earlier at the Glenugie No CSG Protest.  I was so pleased with how it turned out and I hung this on the end of the front awning of my house to blow in the wind and to speak to all the people who pass by under this wheel and to heal those who gaze upon it, it is a symbol of the All.   It encourages us to take care of the Hoop of Life as well as our own personal hoop.  I believe this hoop is known as our Merkaba in other ancient cultures.  

Medicine wheels represent the alignment and continuous interaction of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual realities.

 

The medicine wheel has four divisions and four colors. Those colors symbolize the four sacred directions, the four seasons, the four stages of life, and the four colors of the four original races of people.  

The center is spiritual life, the tree growing from there is the tree of life, the green trees growing are to represent the Mother Earth, the sky is a thunder bird to represent the rain and water. The Medicine wheel is circular because everything in the universe moves in a circular motion. 

Posted by Humano / Human on Tuesday, 8 July 2014

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Palm Trees in the Centre of Australia.

I always wondered how those palms got into the most remote places of the centre of Australia.  I was very interested to read an article depicting the history of these palms. The Livistona palms, L  Mariae... and the L Rigida palm species back up aboriginal lore and stories that say people brought the seeds here from the North.

This disproves the rubbish that tour guides tell people that these palms are left over remnants of the ancient Gondwanna Forest that covered this land at one time.

A striking example of how traditional ecological knowledge can inform and enhance scientific research.  Professor David Bowman, University of Tasmania 

More: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/research-findings-back-aboriginal-legend-origin-central-australian-palm-trees

(ABC/Wikipedia)

I am starting to lose count of situations where science spends a stack of money on research programs and the end result is exactly as is told in the stories that are passed on through thousands of years of tradition of oral teaching and story telling.

Read more at this website for Sovereign peoples

Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty

Asserting Australia's First Nations Sovereignty into Governance 

Now its a matter of protecting these precious places from the Mining companies that are literally slaughtering this land to pieces.

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The YIRRKALA BARK PETITION from the Yolgnu People.

Back last century on the 15th of August in 1963  I was just a little girl of four years old.  The mining companies were taking the land of the Aboriginal people up north.   The then well read Melbourne Age newspaper reported news from Canberra regarding a Bark Petition.

The headlines read, "House Hears Plea in Strange Tongue."

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Yirrkala artists, Dhuwa and Yirritja moieties present the Yirrkala Bark Petition  of natural ochres on bark, ink on paper, to the House of Representatives in Canberra.

Yirrkala Bark Petition, 1963

To the Honourable Speaker and members of the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled.
The Humble Petition of the Undersigned Aboriginal people of Yirrkala, being members of the Balamumu, Narrkala, Gapiny, Miliwurrwurr people and Djapu, Mangalili, Madarrpa, MagarrwanaImirri, Djambarrpuynu, Gumaitj, Marrakulu, Galpu, Dhaluangu, Wangurri, Warramirri, Naymil, Riritjingu, tribes respectfully showeth.

That nearly 500 people of the above tribes are residents of the land excised from the Aboriginal Reserve in Arnhem Land.
That the procedures of the excision of this land and the fate of the people on it were never explained to them beforehand, and were kept secret from them.
That when Welfare Officers and Government officials came to inform them of decisions taken without them and against them, they did not undertake to convey to the Government in Canberra the views and feelings of the Yirrkala aboriginal people.
That the land in question has been hunting and food gathering land for the Yirrkala tribes from time immemorial: we were all born here.
That places sacred to the Yirrkala people, as well as vital to their livelihood are in the excised land, especially Melville Bay.
That the people of this area fear that their needs and interests will be completely ignored as they have been ignored in the past, and they fear that the fate which has overtaken the Larrakeah tribe will overtake them.
And they humbly pray that the Honourable the House of Representatives will appoint a Committee, accompanied by competent interpreters, to hear the views of the people of Yirrkala before permitting the excision of this land.
They humbly pray that no arrangements be entered into with any company which will destroy the livelihood and independence of the Yirrkala people. And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray God to help you and us.

(English language translation of what was written below)

Bukudjulni gonga’yurri napurrunha Yirrkalalili yulnunha malanha Balamumu, Narrkala, Gapiny, Miliwurrwurr, nanapurru dhuwala mala, ga Djapu, Mangalili, Madarrpa, Magarrwanalmirri, Djambarrpuynu, Marrkulu, Gumaitj, Galpu, Dhaluangu, Wangurri, Warramirri, Naymil, Riritjingu malamanapanmirri djal dhunapa.

Dhuwala yolnu mala galki, 500 nhina ga dhiyala wanganura. Dhuwala wanga Arnhem Land yurru djaw’yunna naburrungala.
Dhuwala wanga djaw’yunna ga nhaltjana yurru yolnunundja dhiyala wanga nura nhaltjanna dhu dharrpanna yolnu walandja yakana lakarama madayangumuna.
Dhuwala nunhi Welfare Officers ga Government bungawa lakarama yolnuwa malanuwa nhaltjarra nhuma gana wanganaminha yaka nula napurrungu lakarama, walala yaka lakarama, walala yaka lakarama Governmentgala nunhala Canberra nhaltjanna napurru ga guyana yolnuyu Yirrkala.
Dhuwala wanga napurrunyu balanu larrunarawu napurrungu nathawu, guyawu, miyapunuwu, maypalwu nunhi napurru gana nhinana bitjarrayi nathilimirri, napurru dhawalguyanana dhiyala wanganura.
Dhuwala wanga yurru dharrpalnha yurru yolnuwalandja malawala, ga dharrpalnha dhuwala bala yolnuwuyndja nhinanharawu Melville Baythurru wanga balandayu djaw’yun nyumukunin.
Dhuwala yolnundja mala yurru nhamana balandawunu nha mulkurru nhama yurru moma ga daranun yalalanumirrinha nhaltjanna dhu napurru bitjarra nhakuna Larrakeahyu momara walalanguwuy wanga.
Nuli dhu bungawayu House of Representatives djaw’yun yulnuwala nathili yurru nha dhu lakarama interpreteryu bungawawala yolnu matha, yurru nha dhu djaw ’yun wangandja.
Nunhiyina dhu marrlayun marrama' ndja nhinanharawu yolnuwu marrnamathinyarawu. Dhuwala napurru yolnu mala yurru liyamirriyama bitjan bili marr yurru napurru nha gonga 'yunna wagarr'yu.

Read More at Source : Sovereign Union.

 

 

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Heritage Photography of the Aboriginal people.

My photography Gomeroi daughter playing with fire

"Calling the Shots"  Aboriginal Photography is a very special book of photography of the Indigenous peoples of this land.  Earlier on there were many photographs that were not very nice but there were also interesting images that today a lot can be gleaned from regarding culture.   I have a book from the 1860's, The History of Australasia and this book contains many interesting images of aboriginal people in distinctly cultural situations participating in ceremony and corroboree.

I would love to peruse the entire book as the images I did saw here were extremely interesting and showed the depth these people had and still have to this very day.

http://50years.aiatsis.gov.au/transcripts/calling-shots-aboriginal-photographies



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