Do you know what Country is or what it means to care for it? Ever heard of Songlines? Margo Ngawa Neale, senior Indigenous art and history curator at the National Museum of Australia, is here to help.
Margo Ngawa Neale, senior Indigenous art and history curator at the National Museum of Australia, is here to help. She's written and edited First Knowledges books, explaining Indigenous concepts.For First Nations people, your identity is totally related to Country, your own Country where your particular clan comes from.
All the stories you need to know in order to survive in Country come from Country, so we say, "Country is knowledge therefore it is Clever Country".It is actually caring for it as you would your mother or your relative or any other person. Songlines, sometimes referred to as dreaming tracks, link sites and hold stories, known as story places, which are read into the natural features of the land.Aotearoa New Zealand has had a treaty in place for almost two centuries but it wasn't until the 1970s that it was truly honoured. So what happened?The stories at significant sites contain knowledge that instruct on social behaviour, gender relations or where water or food can be sourced.
For example, the seven sisters flew in advance of their pursuer over a particular tract of Country. This story — about where they flew and could not walk — tells you not to walk there as there is no water. Natural formations such as mountains, caves and waterholes act as memory aids to the story of their creation and the lessons embedded, also known as mnemonics.
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