Marra Dreaming

Introduction There is a word we use — Country. Not country in the way a passport defines it, not country as lines drawn on a map by men who never walked the land. Country is living. Country is kin. Country is the accumulation of tens of thousands of years of relationship — between people, land, water, sky, and the Law that holds them together. For most of the history of colonial Australia, the law of this land said that Country did not belong to us. It said, in effect, that w

Introduction One of the most common — and most honestly understandable — mistakes made by non-Indigenous Australians, and indeed people from around the world, is treating "Aboriginal" and "Torres Strait Islander" as interchangeable terms. They are not. We are two distinct peoples, with distinct cultures, distinct histories, distinct languages, and distinct relationships to Country. When I say "we," I am speaking as an Aboriginal person — someone whose ancestry connects to the

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