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Westerly+Vol.+54+No.+2 westerly54:2 westerly the best in writing from the West the best in writing from the West Indigenous writing and art Volume 54 Number 2, 2009 Bronwyn Bancroft westerly Leonard M. Collard Pat Dudgeon but I still see you Sabrina Dudgeon in us Jeannie Herbert old woman Ambelin Kwaymullina myself in the past, is ourselves Blaze Kwaymullina — Tjalaminu Mia Gladys Milroy From ‘Sacred Sisters’ Jake Milroy 54:2 Jill Milroy Darlene Oxenham John Oxenham Kim Scott Erica Spry Alf Taylor Tjalaminu Mia Walha Udi Marvyn-anha Frederick McKenzie Snr Single copies of Westerly (not including postage) Aust $29.95, NZ $37.00, US $26.00, UK £15.00, Eur 17.50 ISBN 978-0-9804371-4-0 Bronwyn Bancroft, ‘Paradox of Inequality 2007’, synthetic polymer paint on canvas (1.5m x 1.5m). Courtesy Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne Westerly 54-2 cover final.indd 1 22/10/09 1:56:09 PM westerly54:2 the best in writing from the West November 2009 Westerly 54-2 interior final.indd 1 22/10/09 2:06:02 PM westerly Volume 54:2 | November 2009 Publisher Westerly Centre, The University of Western Australia, ISBN 978-09804371-4-0 Australia Guest Editors Sally Morgan, Blaze Kwaymullina Editors Notice of Intention Delys Bird, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth Westerly will convert the full backfile Editorial Advisors of Westerly (1956–) to electronic Mike Williams (prose) Barbara Temperton (poetry) text, which will be made available to Editorial Consultants readers and researchers in 2009/10. Bruce Bennett (ADFA, Canberra) This work is being supported by a John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan (University of Western Australia) grant from the Cultural Fund of the Susan Ballyn (University of Barcelona) Copyright Agency Limited. Diana Brydon (University of Manitoba) Douglas Kerr (University of Hong Kong) All creative works, articles and Brian Matthews (Victoria University) reviews converted to electronic Vincent O’Sullivan (Wellington) format will be correctly attributed Peter Porter (London) and will appear as published. Andrew Taylor (Edith Cowan University) Copyright will remain with the Edwin Thumboo (National University of Singapore) authors, and the material cannot be further republished without authorial Administrator Roger Bourke permission. Westerly will honour any requests to withdraw material from Partner electronic publication. If any author RIC Group, Educational Publishers, Balcatta WA does not wish their work to appear Production in this format, please contact Westerly Design and layout: Robyn Mundy Design immediately and your material will Printer: Picton Press, West Perth, WA be withdrawn. Cover artwork: Bronwyn Bancroft, ‘Paradox of Inequality 2007’, synthetic polymer paint on canvas (1.5m x 1.5m). Courtesy Contact: Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne. [email protected] All academic work published in Westerly is fully refereed. Copyright of each piece belongs to the author; copyright of the collection belongs to the Westerly Centre. Re-publication is permitted on request to author and editor. Westerly is published biannually with assistance from the State Government of WA by an investment in this project through the Department of Culture and the Arts. The opinions expressed in Westerly are those of individual contributors and not of the Editors or Editorial Advisors. Westerly 54-2 interior final.indd 2 22/10/09 2:06:03 PM General CONTENTS Editorial 5 Leonard M. Collard Djidi Djidi, Wardong, Kulbardi, Walitj and Weitj: Nyungar Dream Time Messengers 7 Tjalaminu Mia Another Day 27 Sacred Sisters 28 Blaze Kwaymullina Nanna and Me 30 Kim Scott A Refreshing Sleep 37 Alf Taylor Wildflower Girl 49 Nyoongar Woman and a Mobile Phone 55 Jake Milroy Up a Ladder: Black Words and Me 56 Bronwyn Bancroft The Invisible Sleeper 66 Jeannie Herbert Travelling Memory Road: A Dialogue with my Brother 79 Alf Taylor The Land 89 Jill Milroy and Gladys Milroy Dingo’s Tree 91 Pat Dudgeon and Sabrina Dudgeon Remembering Christine 100 3 Westerly 54-2 interior final.indd 3 22/10/09 2:06:03 PM Contents Ambelin Kwaymullina The Butterfly Birthday 116 Blaze Kwaymullina Outside 126 Erica Spry Kimberley Country Connections and Reflections 00 Alf Taylor Binjareb Spear 138 Walha Udi Marvyn-anha Frederick McKenzie Snr Adnya-mathanha Yura Life Cycle, Birth Names, and Connection to the Heavenly Bodies 140 John Oxenham and Darlene Oxenham Life Lessons 145 Westerly Submissions 166 Subscribe to Westerly 167 4 Westerly 54-2 interior final.indd 4 22/10/09 2:06:03 PM EDITORIAL This unique edition of Westerly provides a space for Aboriginal stories to be published and heard. There is a great diversity in the stories in this edition, some focus on family relationships, others on Country and some on the trauma of colonisation. A common theme is the subtle and often ironic sense of humour that threads through the collection, offering a sense of hope and resilience. The collection is thought-provoking, insightful, sad, funny, and full of all those wonderful foibles that make us all human. Working with stories is always a privilege, but it has been a particular honour to be involved with this collection, which is the first edition Westerly has ever produced comprised solely of the works of Aboriginal writers. We would like to thank all of the contributors for their wonderful stories, The University of Western Australia’s School of Indigenous Studies for supporting the project and the editors of Westerly for the opportunity to showcase the works of Aboriginal writers. Sally Morgan and Blaze Kwaymullina, Guest Editors This issue of Westerly introduces its new, biannual format, with what we think of as a ‘traditional’ issue published mid-year and a ‘creative’ issue published late in the year. Westerly has been annual since 2000 and we are excited by the new opportunities this change offers. It is significant that this development coincides with an issue of Westerly devoted to the work of Indigenous writers and artists. We congratulate its guest editors, Sally Morgan and Blaze Kwaymullina and their contributors, 5 Westerly 54-2 interior final.indd 5 22/10/09 2:06:03 PM Westerly 54: 2 for all their extraordinary work. It has been a very rewarding and exciting experience working with Sally and Blaze on this Westerly. There are other changes at Westerly. Dennis Haskell’s distinguished association with the journal, as an editor and a voice for Westerly has been a very long and significant one. But even editors grow old, and in Dennis’s case, he has finally become too busy to continue to have a direct role in the journal’s publication, having taken up an appointment as Chair of the Literature Board of the Australia Council, although his interest and influence will remain strong. At the same time, Westerly is pleased to welcome a new co-editor in Tony Hughes-d’Aeth. Tony is a UWA colleague, a member of the Westerly Centre and he brings a wide knowledge of the local and the national writing scene as well as his own dedication to all that Westerly stands for. Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Editors PATRICIA HACKETT PRIZE The editors have pleasure in announcing the joint winners of the Patricia Hackett Prize for the best contribution to Westerly No. 53, 2008: Mark O’Flynn for his story ‘Red Shoes’ and Mike Williams for his story ‘The Gig’ 6 Westerly 54-2 interior final.indd 6 22/10/09 2:06:04 PM Djidi Djidi, Wardong, Kulbardi, Walitj and Weitj: Nyungar Dream Time Messengers Leonard M. Collard Len Collard, a Whadjuck/Balardong Nyungar. is a Traditional Owner of the Swan Riverlands and surrounding districts. He is married to Lisa, has two daughters, Mia Joy and Ingrid Marie, and one granddaughter, Haley Mae. Len is a Director of Moodjar Consultancy, specialising in Whadjuck and generic Nyungar Culture as a sustainable principle and guide framework for working within our culture today in an ethical and respectful way. Len can be contacted on [email protected] yungar yarns or stories about the Nyungar Rainbow Serpent N(Waakle), our boodjar (country), moort (family) and katitjin (knowledge) are central to the handing down of Nyungar culture and belief systems from one generation to another. These yarns have been passed on since the Nyungar nyittiny or ‘creation time’ and form the basis of our Cosmology, which as in other cultures, is an explana­­ tion of much of one’s worldview, morals, values, behaviour, fears, superstitions, taboos and very instincts. Nyungar yarning and writing is an attempt to articulate these Nyungar social thematics. The follow- ing yarns are told by Nyungar katitj boordier (knowledge leaders) Balardong/Wilmen Janet Hayden, Pinjarep/Yamatji Dr Richard Walley, Whadjuck/Balardong ‘Keeper of the Stories’ Tom Yelakitj Bennell, and Whadjuck/Balardong Sealin Garlett, and are as old as Nyungar. 7 Westerly 54-2 interior final.indd 7 22/10/09 2:06:04 PM Westerly 54: 2 Katitjin or knowledge given to Nyungar by the Waakal or Nyungar Rainbow Serpent included all things connected to our boodjar. The Waakal gave us our katitjin or knowledge about the boodjar and the sacred sites such as Mt Stirling, Mt Caroline, Mt Bakewell, Mt Matilda, Kokerbin Rock, Boyagin Rock, Mandikan, Mundaring, Karta Koomba, Waakal Mia, and the Derbal Yerrigan (Swan Estuary) and our relationship to them. Waakal gave us this knowledge about Nyungar and our kinship relationships, responsibilities and obligations to one another be they Whadjuck, Balardong, Wilmen or Pinjareb. The Creator gave us our katitjin about the six seasons, birds, animals, plants, bush medicines, trees, rivers, waterholes, hills, gullies, the stars, moon, sun, rocks and their interconnectedness in the web of life. One of the themes in the Nyungar cosmology are the yarns about the role of birds and what they represent to Nyungar.
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