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Arts BACKBONE Vol. 18: Issue 2 & Vol. 19: Issue 1, August 2019 Homelands Edition Mariah Morrell Park Ngadumiyerrka Pandanus Park Tinkarli Wudapuli Mariniri Mount Catt Ngalingkadji Pandayal Tirralintji Wuggubun Marla Marla Mount Jean Ngallagunda Pantijan Tjoungouri Wulaburri Marlinja Mowanjum Ngalpa Ngalpa Paradise Farm Tree Point Wulkabimirri Marlwon Mowla Bluff Ngamakoon Parnta Turkey Lagoon Wulununjur Marralum Mt Maiyo Ngangalala Parrulyu Uguie Wumajbarr Marramarrani Mu-Gurta Nganmarriyanga Paru Umbakumba Wumirdin Marraya Muckaty Ngappamilarnu Parukupan Uminyuluk Wunara Marrkalawa Mud Springs Ngarantjadu Patch Up Un-Marr Wunburri Marrkolidjban Mudginberri Ngardinitchi Patonga (Airstrip) Village Camp Wundigalla Martjanba Mudhamul Ngarinthi Patonga (Homestead) Wada Wadalla Wungu Marunbabidi Mudjarrl Ngarlan Burr Peppimenarti Wada Warra Wuppa Matamata Mudnunn Ngarlu Ngarlu Perrederr Wadeye Wurankuwu Mataranka Town Camp Mulan Ngarnka Picininny Bore Waidaboonar Wurdeja Mawulyumanja Mulggan Ngayawilli Pickertaramoor Wakurlpu Wurlbu Mcdonalds Yard Mulgurram Ngildu Pigeon Hole Walangurrminy Wurrumenbumanja Mcgowan Island Mulingi Ngilipitji Pine Creek Compound Waldnarr Wurrumiyanga Menngen Muludja Ngipin Pingala Walka Wurwula Mercedes Cove Mumeka Ngukurr Pinja Wallaces Lagoon Wutunugurra Merrepen Mumpumampu Ngulupi Pirlangimpi Walpiri Wuyagiba Mewirnbi Mumukala Ngulwirriwirri Policemans Hole Waminari Yakanarra Mia Maya Mundud Ngumpan Punjarriji Wanakutja Yalukun Miali Brumby Mungalawurru Ngunarra Purrukuwurru Wanamulnyundong Yaminyi Middle Lagoon Munget Ngunthak Putjamirra Wandangula Yanbakwa Mikginj Valley Mungkarta Ngunulum Putulu Wandawuy Yandarinya Milba Mungurrupa Ngurrara Puyurru Wangkatjungka Yangulinyina Milibunthurra Munjari Ngurrutiji Railway Dam Wanmarri Yanungbi Milikapiti Munji-Marla Ngurtuwarta Ramingining Warby Yanyula Milingimbi Munmarul Nguyarramini Rarrdjali Warmun Yardoogarra Millargoon Munthanmar Ngyallawilli Raymangirr Warrayu Yarralin Milmilngkan Munyalini Nicholson Block Red Creek Warruwi Yarramurral Milyakburra Murgenella Plains Nikawu Red Lily Watdagawuy Yarri Yarri Mimbi Murphy Creek Nilargoon Red Shells Wauk Yarrunga Mimina Murranji Nillir Irbanjin Rittarangu Weemol Yartalu Yartalu Mindi Rardi Murtulki Nillygan Robe River Junction Werenbun Yathalamarra Mingalkala Muruning Ningbingi Robinson River West Island Yawuru Miniata Myatt Norman Creek Rockhole White Gum Park Yederr Minjilang Nabarlek North Island Rocky Springs White Rock Yedikba Minmarama Park Nabbarla Kunindabba Nudugun Rollah Wigu Yikarrakkal Minyerri Nadilmuk Nulawan Rorruwuy Wiitin Yilan Mirima Nadirri Nulla Nulla Rurrangala Wijilawarrim Yilila Mirridi Naliyindi Nulleywah Sabina Wilgi Yimidarra Mirrnatja Nama Numbulwar Sandridge Willowra Yinguwunarri Mistake Creek Namerinni Nummerloori Sandy Bay Windjingayr Yinyikay Miwul Namugardabu Nunju Yallet Scott Point Windong Yiramalay Mobarn Nangak Nuradidgee Snake Lagoon Wogyala Yirra Bandoo Mole Hill Nangu Nygah Nygah South West Island Wollagalonng Outstation Yirralalem Momob Nanyingburra Nyilil Spring Peak Woodycupaldiya Yirringa Monbon Napagunpa Nyumwah Takapimiliyi Woolah Yirrkala Moolooloo Nauiyu Old Mission Tappers Inlet Woolaning Yiyili Mooloowa Ndjudda Pago Tara Woolergerberleng Yudu Yudu Moongardie Neem Pakulki Taracumbi Wooliana Yulbara Mooronga Nemarluk Palmerston Indigenous Tigers Camp Worrimbah Yulmbu Morard Ngadalargin Village Timor Springs Wudaduk Yungngora ANKA: Working Together to Keep Art, Culture and Homelands and Art Country Strong Homeland Movement By Christina Davidson, ANKA CEO Darwin Office revival of traditional knowledge, ‘Our homelands and Art Centres are GPO BOX 2152, DARWIN involving reinvigoration of NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA 0801 our universities and art academies, language, knowledge of country, Ph +61 (0) 8 8981 6134 though they are not funded for this role. of ceremonial practice and cultural Email [email protected] Homelands are where our young people forms including song and dance cycles and inherited patterns www.anka.org.au learn our culture, all our songs, clan Facebook: ANKA - Arnhem Northern & and designs. The contemporary Kimberley Artists, Aboriginal Corporation designs and patterns, dances, renaissance of Aboriginal art is kinship, names and stories. grounded in this classical revival Northern Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal based in the homelands. Artists, Aboriginal Corporation (ANKA) is the peak Our homelands are where we hold body for Aboriginal artists and 47 Aboriginal The health of homelands today owned community Art Centres and artist groups Ngarra, holy ceremonies that honour has not been nurtured by recent in the Kimberley, Arnhem Land, Tiwi Islands and our spiritual foundation on our land government policy. The last Katherine/Darwin regions of Northern Australia. ANKA Katherine/ Darwin Regional General Meeting 2009, Mabunji in-depth national evaluation of ANKA is a fully Indigenous governed not-for-profit and sea country. These are really big Homelands Resource Centre, Borroloola. Artists from Warnayaka Arts, Lajamanu charting locations of their homelands on goggle maps. homelands, the 1986-87 House Homeland Movement is Yothu Yindi’s first album Aboriginal Corporation. Founded in 1987, ANKA is gatherings that bring together people released in March 1989 on the Mushroom Australia’s first peak body for Indigenous art. of Representatives Inquiry - Return from many clans. It is where we go to Country: The Aboriginal Homelands Record label. Illustrations Gulapa Screenprints. Reproduced with permission. The names of 729 homeland centres in Movement in Australia, took a very positive This publication contains the names of much more deeply into our sacred view of homeland centres and their futures. Aboriginal people who have passed places and lands. These ceremonies are ANKA's regions of northern Australia are away. listed on the cover of this Homelands Edition However, the tendency in policy since has Homeland Movement - lyrics what feeds our art, makes it strong and of Arts Backbone. The map on p.22-23 been to view homelands through a deficit Back in the 1970s there was movement on the land The artists, Art Centres and/or ANKA own the lets it speak of what I am, who we are. charts their locations. This map reminds us lens as a drain on the public purse. Rather Yolngu people moved back to their promised land copyright of all text and images contained in this visually that the country between the big than appreciating the very significant publication. Photographs have been taken by The wheel was a turning People can feel this in our art. The land Aboriginal settlements in Northern Australia strengths of homelands and homeland ANKA Staff, unless stated otherwise. ANKA Arts And the feeling was right is not empty, but is full of art and culture. people, and the many benefits they offer for Backbone is © ANKA. cannot talk, but we can speak for it through Dhuwa, Yirritja people returned to their land The map shows not just the Art Centres Australia, including in land care, art, and in The views and opinions expressed in this our artwork and reach across cultures.’ which market, and help nurture, sustain developoing understanding of the continent Power to the people publication are those of the authors and do not and preserve Aboriginal art, but also the and national identity. Djambawa Marawili AM, 2010* Power to the land necessarily reflect those of ANKA. homeland centres where much of the art is Power for cultural revival Djambawa Marawili AM ANKA Chairperson produced and which are the conceptual In 2019-2020 the time is ripe for a Editor: Christina Davidson Power for survival painting at Yilpara/Baniyala Homeland, 2019 heartlands of the Aboriginal art movement. fundamental re-think of the role of homelands Issue Coordination: Christina Davidson, Photo: Leah Greengarten ANKA's Homelands Keeping Art, Country and what they have to offer Australia as a Belinda Foster, Jonathon Saunders See the camp fire burning and Culture Strong Mapping Project is whole in an era when technology means Design: Jeni Jossaume, Jonathon Saunders And the children are yearning introduced on p.26. they are no longer 'remote' to other places. Cover Image: Homelands and Art Mapping ‘Homelands are the backbone for Aboriginal art. Today homeland centres are developing Talking about peace and harmony Project, 2018 - homeland locations 'Homelands' are referenced in two main a large range of new projects under Yolngu education is the key for redemption Research: Christina Davidson p.7, p.24-25 They are where all the patterns and designs come from - from the land.’ ways in this Arts Backbone. The first is challenging conditions. Among many other And the homeland centre movement is here to stay Thanks to Jon Altman and Michael Christie for Djambawa Marawili AM, 2019 homelands on ancestral country. Referring enterprises, homelands are the places their advice. to the individual ancestral clan estates (the of origin of two important contemporary Power to the People country) of the diverse Aboriginal peoples of international exports: Indigenous art and Power to the land northern Australia whose families have cared the fire management/ carbon abatement Power for cultural revival for their land since time immemorial (75,000 projects, reported on p.19. ANKA is proudly supported by: Power for survival years by current science). The second way homelands is used, refers to homeland It is time to listen to the Indigenous voices, who Hear the thunder in the sky centres - small contemporary Aboriginal
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