| Australia celebrates Reconciliation Week.These days our thoughts turn to the First Australians, our indigenous friends. In a few day, Kosciuszko Heritage delegation is to take part in a funeral ceremony which will gather several clans of Ngarigo-Monaro people, traditional custodians of vast lands including Mt Kosciuszko. A matriarchal Ngarigo elder Aunty Deanna Davison is to be buried in Moruya on Friday June 5th. What a coincidence, right after the news of Aunty Deanna's death reached us, we struck gold by finding a comprehensive story of Her and Her forefathers in a government bulletin "Coastal Custodians". Saved as PDF this unique story is being reprinted today in Puls Polonii.
Aunty Deanna Davison - My Story. Click here to read
Link to Aunty Deanna's Obituary
What Is Reconciliation Week?
Starting on Wednesday May 27, NRW will mark 20 years since 250,000 Australians walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and bridges in other cities around the country, to ‘bridge the gap’ between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians.
Dr Peters, who is a proud Wurundjeri and Yorta Yorta man, said it’s an important event all Aussies should know about.
“We’re all on Aboriginal land, and it all contains story and history that we can all connect to. This isn’t a culture that was imported – it’s been a part of this land from the beginning,” he explained.
A huge metal plaque (presented here by Craig Dixon) acknowledging the elders of Monero-Ngarigo Country has been unvailed on 13th of May 2020 in front of the NPWS-Kosciuszko National Park headquarters in Jindabyne. That happened 10 days after Aunty Deanna's death. Yet she had a chance to see the plaque a year earlier during a memorable gathering in Jindabyne.
Memorable gathering in Jindabyne decribed here in Polish. Plenty of photos.
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