Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion). The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous Read more…
Rugged Country During dry summer months our country looks so dry, but the beauty of the red earth, the spinifex and dry grass make it beautiful. Although it doesn’t rain, but during the cool weather, the wetness in the morning, Read more…
Kakalala and Kangka (White Cockatoo and Black Crow) This is a dreamtime story about Kakalala (White Cockatoo) and Kangka (Black Crow). Cockatoo and Crow were the wives of Eagle. One day the wives went off to collect food. Crow was Read more…
Jirda Flour Increasing Site It is one of the sacred sites on the way to GG. It’s a place where Yindjibarndi ancestors walked the country gathering bush food, camping, staying close to main pools surroudning the area Wayumarri. Bilaa is Read more…
Pilbara Landscape After the Raim After the rain the rivers and creeks in our country come alive with a new growth of plants . The country is filled with beautiful colours. We rejoice looking at our rivers and creeks full Read more…
Tuwa (Sandhills) The traditional lands of the Martu people encompass the Great Sandy Desert and Rudall River regions of Western Australia, an enormous tract dominated by distinctive red tali, or tuwa (sandhills). These sandhills present an unforgiving landscape; sparse vegetation Read more…
Jartuti “Jartuti water place east of Parnngurr. In pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) days old people walked and hunted there, we went there recently with KJ (Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa) ranger mob, lovely place.” – Beverley Rogers Jartuti is a water source located close Read more…
Jartuti “Jartuti water place east of Parnngurr. In pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) days old people walked and hunted there, we went there recently with KJ (Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa) ranger mob, lovely place.” – Beverley Rogers Jartuti is a water source located close Read more…
Jinyjiwirrily Jinjiwirrily (jinyjiwirrily), otherwise known as kanyjilyi (wild gooseberry, or desert raisin), is a small, prickly shrub that produces spherical yellow bush fruit. The plant occurs in the spinifex sandplains and sand dunes of Australia’s arid regions. Usually the year Read more…