Harold Ludwick Hopevale Southern Cape York North

Bama Guugu Yimidhirr- ngan • Stockman • Blocklayer • Mine operator • Communications officer for regional Indigenous organisation • GBRMPA Inspector • Program Co-design for Indigenous Communities social reform, financial management, yard beautification in remote communities • World Indigenous Languages Participant Past • Presentation of Co-authored paper Geneva & Rio De Janeiro • Indigenous Tourism Experience • Ranger coordinator • Biosecurity contractor • Museum Project officer & Guide • National Museum of Australia Fellowship • Atlantic Fellows cohort University of Melbourne • Author Language isn’t Just “Language”

• Many Australians believe the Indigenous people of Australia who make fewer than 3% of the population all speak the same language? • SLQ estimates 750 language groups with 125 in QLD alone • 360,000 Sq klms in Cape York which the Pama Language Centre estimates 55 various language groups with an estimated 158 varieties of dialects • My Language group of the Guugu Yimidhirr people which is approximately 16,790sq klms historically had 39-42 Clan groups with each having a dialect variation

National Trust Australia Queensland

Story Telling Through Displays Effective Displays

Cultural Knowledge

Dhuurbu- Women’s Sacred Mourning Dance Malgarri Warrma - Corroboree Gunbu-wuuril, Guri-mal, Ngudhu-wuuril Yimbaala- Sacred Dance

Our Curriculum & The Danger of Misinterpretation Sydney Parkinson Sketch Shot by Lt Gore 1770 Wahalambaal birri () Items Authenticity

• Language gives provenance to items from a district • Language is also a geographical indicator • Language pronunciation Binga Ngurraar

Waguurrga (Inland) Binga-waandaar

Dhalun-thirr (Coastal) nganda-bang.gan or baji & baagi Milbiirr Gunduri Kun-juri

Wangi dhiln.gaarr London

Captain Cooks Journal Endeavour Man?? musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac - Exhibitions Paris “Collections” Atlantic Fellows University of Melbourne Masters course in Social Change & Social Equity The 2021 Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (AFSE) program, hosted by the University of Melbourne.

• Most of the cohort – 12 from Australia and six from New Zealand – are Indigenous. Fellows include practitioners in the environment, community, banking, journalism, a deputy school principal, consultants, executives, a dancer and government policy analysts.

• The program features an intensive year of study and social change projects, followed by lifelong membership to a global community. For 2021, a new postgraduate qualification has been introduced as part of the fellowship: the Master of Social Change Leadership (MC-SCL).

• Elizabeth McKinley, Executive Director of AFSE and Professor of Indigenous Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, said the 2021 cohort was comprised of exceptional individuals who showed significant potential as social change leaders in the Indigenous space.

Great Interest in the Book

State Library of Queensland Spoken Exhibition

One focus of the exhibit is to provide an Aboriginal perspective of how Captain landed on the Wahalumbaal-Endeavour River, located on Cape York Peninsula in . An oral history of the series of encounters, as told by Aboriginal people including Bulgun Warra man Harold Ludwick, will sit alongside James Cook's Endeavour Journal - marking only the second time the document has left the National Library of Australia.

Spoken tells stories of how a Guugu Yimithirr Elder used a broken spear as a peace offering to Cook and his men, following an altercation over turtles on the deck of the Endeavour.

The exhibit correlates the two perspectives of Cook's 48-day stay in Far North Queensland and honours the Guugu Yimithirr people and all original custodians of Aboriginal language.

Mr Crump said it tells the story through the eyes of the Aboriginal people.

"Everything that was written about us or spoken about us and heard about us, was from the perspective of Cook and Banks, sitting on that Endeavour ship and looking back to the shore," Mr Crump says. "We want to provide our story from the shore to the ship perspective, let people know this is what was happening from our point of view.“

The Spoken: celebrating Queensland languages exhibit is open from the 21 November - 19 April at the State Library of Queensland. Conclusion

• There needs a voice of Indigenous people in moments/engagements throughout Australia's Historical past

• Consider perspectives of Indigenous people in the recorded historical events, their perspectives matter, as much as the perspective of the author who pieces together an assumption which is believed throughout history which

• The Encounters Exhibition at National Museum of Australia which ends this April, has taken the journals and Indigenous perspectives to sit side by side giving the Cook story substance by piecing together what the authors were writing about

• The State Library of Queensland have also give a voice through the Spoken Exhibition to deconstructing the Endeavour journals of Lt James Cook during his 48 day stay at Wahalmbaal birri (Endeavour River)

• Without our voice, some historical stories are created by the imagination, conjuring up a story based on vivid imagination of a journals author. An existing danger is repetitive story telling from a biased source perpetuating assumptions as factual. In the veil of darkness a voice is calling to be heard. I, must answer, because I’ve heard! In the words of a famous quote Wuthuur –dabaar gar- wugiingu dharraar “I Will Not Go Gently Into That Good Night” To cherish all cultures inspires a Nation, for a better future children can share together. ‘Ngayu nhanu naamamal gurrigu’

(I’ll see you again)