Native Title

Native Title

In the course of his first voyage of ‘discovery’ during the late 1700s, James Cook claimed the entire east coast for Britain under the premise of terra nullius.  The struggle for Land Rights has been raging in this country for almost two and a half centuries now, a fight against theft, lies and genocide.  So what does true LAND RIGHTS mean for First Nations peoples?

 

Gary Foley (Gumbaynggirr historian): In the 60s and 70s, we were talking about real LAND OWNERSHIP; land that we could have control over, so we could say “no, you can’t come in here” or “we want to do this with our land”.  That’s what self-determination is – the power to control your own affairs.  Ownership of land is fundamental to this in terms of creating the basis for people to survive the attack of colonialism.  Land Rights is important because it would provide the means by which the Aboriginal community could go through the process of reconstruction and recuperation.  Until Koori communities have got economic independence, we will have no freedom.

http://www.989fm.com.au/smashingthemyths/native-title-is-land-rights/

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A little about page admin Kaiyu Moura (Bayles)

Now living in QLD raising her children on their traditional country, gathering food, learning the old art of building shelters, dance and the local language. For the past 20 years with her late Grandmother Maureen Watson and a dance group with 6 of her sisters Kaiyu travelled schools, festivals, events etc sharing the beauty of First Nations Culture through song and dance, stories, art, theatre, nursery rhymes, poetry etc and engaging all ages in different projects that inspire positive change. Also a poet, documentary maker, songwriter, artist, event organiser, media consultant, testing the waters of micro social enterprise by starting her own tshirt and sublimation printing business and with her own label, Kaiyu creates what she calls Freedom Threads.

After building their own home on Tribal Sovereign land, Kaiyu is now homeschooling and teaching the kids about making our own tinctures, learning about bushtucker and mushrooms, growing food, building with aircrete, setting up wind turbines, composting toilets and ram water pumps... Really learning what it truly means to thrive. This is our Group where we share alot of what we do

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