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Welcome to my Country

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Image: Local women say welcome to tourism (Source: Sandie Suchet-Pearson, ABC Online)

Yolŋu sharing their country through the book Welcome to my Country. This link takes you to an ABC Bush Telegraph interview with Laklak, a Datiwuy Elder and caretaker for Gumatj in NE Arnhem Land.

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On your pages

On your pages

Illuminated,
on your pages
these
words
find life,
and born
through these
words
are my connections.
Invoked
yes!
a calling forth,
you re-appear in my
present.
Actors from my being with,
come to me,
surround me
and make me remember.
We
are always
together

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May 9, 2014 · 3:41 am