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To Download TWELVE CANOES Study Guide TWELVE CANOES A STUDYGUIDE BY ROBERT LEWIS http://www.metromagazine.com.au http://www.theeducationshop.com.au INTRODUCTION TO THE MENU We are the first people of our land. These are some of our stories from where we have lived so long. We welcome you to know about us, about our culture, this way. The Yolngu people of Ramingining WELVE CANOES is a website and environment of the Yolngu people The People. These provide a link to a and DVD presentation of twelve of the Arafura swamp of north-central Google Earth image of the Ramingin- Tlinked short audio-visual pieces, Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. ing area, a brief history of the area, some companion short videos to Once a video piece has been ac- some explanations of some common these twelve stories, 120 photographs cessed, its companion short videos are Yolngu words and terms, and an on- and art pieces, and music files, that accessible through the ‘extras’ link. line version of this study guide. together paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place GALLERY: Consisting of three sec- SHARE: Consists of an invitation to of the Yolngu people whose homeland tions, Art, Music, and People and Place. the viewer to send an email to a friend is the Arafura Swamp of north-central These provide a series of artworks and or associate to ‘share’ in the stories/ Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. music from the area, as well as a col- website. The menu elements are: lection of fifty-nine photographs of local people, environment and activities. This study guide provides some sug- TWELVE CANOES: Consisting of gested approaches for using some of twelve video pieces that provide a ABOUT US: Consisting of Where in these menu elements with students. SCREEN EDUCATION visual portrait of the history, culture the World, Meanings, Study Guide and 2 INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY 1 Go to the Google Earth image of the area in the Where in the World section of the About Us menu heading. 2 Suggest how the place might influ- ence the nature of life for the peo- ple of this area. Take into account the environment, the weather and seasons, likely sources of food, communications, history, econo- my, technology, cultural elements, recreational activities. CURRICULUM What you have done is to create a APPLICABILITY series of hypotheses about the place, and its impacts and influences on While Twelve Canoes is specifi- the people who live there, the Yolngu cally about the Yolngu people of people of Ramingining. The remaining Arnhem Land, each segment can activities in this study guide will enable be used as a starting point to you to test these hypotheses. help students develop ideas and hypotheses about aspects of all BACKGROUND TO THE Indigenous people’s history in PROJECT Australia. The community Ideas and themes raised in the segments (or ‘canoes’ of ideas) Ramingining is an isolated town about can also be used in a variety of 500 kilometres east of Darwin in north- other subject areas at middle-sen- central Arnhem Land. It supports a ior secondary levels, including: population of about 1,500 people, mainly Indigenous, in the township • Geography Close to Ramingining is the Arafura and surrounding districts. Set up • Resources Swamp, a World Heritage-listed tract by the government in 1972 to bring • Management of freshwater wetlands that extends together the different peoples of the • Art to 130,000 hectares during the wet region, Ramingining is consequently a • Society and Environment / season. The Swamp is central to the mixed settlement of primarily Yolngu HSIE / SOSE lives of most of the people, historically, people. Many are close to or on their • English culturally and spiritually. traditional tribal lands; others are • Music some distance removed from them. • Indigenous Studies. The community is one of contrasts. SCREEN EDUCATION Most people know six or seven lan- 3 guages, but English is spoken only out matter, was brought in for discussion, impact on both the community and of necessity, and often in rudimentary with the individual Yolngu contribu- their desire to showcase their art and fashion. Hunting, fishing and gathering tors each very keen to have their ideas culture to the world. The proposed lat- are still practised, in both traditional incorporated, and that the film in some tice format, intended to allow users to and non-traditional ways, but at the way should reflect the entirety of their meander through the site, was super- same time people turn to the internet lives, culture and history. seded by a plan to use the emotional to do their banking. capabilities of cinema to have audi- There was soon general recognition ences as individuals connect with the Conventional work is scarce. Increas- that no film could achieve all that, and material in a cinema-like way on their ingly there is engagement with the arts the idea of a website was born. Initially computer screen. and craft, which in turn helps keep the site was going to be a non-spe- some of the traditions alive. cifically focussed, non-encyclopaedic The project site wherein disparate pieces were to History of the project be connected in a lattice-like frame- Twelve key subjects were decided work, to better reflect the Indigenous upon. Each subject was to deal with In 2003 filmmaker Rolf de Heer was worldview of the connectedness of a particular key aspect of Yolngu collaborating with the Indigenous everything. culture, place, or history, and each of Yolngu people of Ramingining to de- these sections on the website would vise a storyline for the film Ten Canoes But the very positive response from so be headlined by an audio-visual ‘tone (Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, 2006). many different countries to the feature poem’. Each tone poem would be SCREEN EDUCATION A lot of material, greatly varied subject film Ten Canoes had had a strong an independent module incorporat- 4 The Swamp describes the World Heritage-listed Arafura wetlands just south of Ramingining. The swamp and its people have a historical, cultural, economic and spiritual relationship which is now threatened by a number of factors. Plants and Animals is about the diversity of the flora and fauna of the ing works of art, video material, stills, Arafura wetlands and surrounding music and sound. Each was to be of areas, and their continuing but fragile about five minutes duration and would existence in a changing world. be supported on the website by other available material. Seasons is about how the blooming of a flower can tell you the sharks are The modules, poetic in nature with being born in the sea; it is about the strong, sometimes ethereal imagery, interactive description of the changing are generally accompanied by words life cycles that punctuate the weather from different Ramingining storytellers. patterns of the Yolngu year. SUGGESTIONS FOR Kinship highlights the complexity USING THE SITE and historical importance of family structure and ancestral relationships. Twelve Canoes came from another place. Long before The expression of kinship today has the coming of the white man, the Ma- evolved, but its importance and com- This section of the menu provides cassans were trading partners of the plexity remain. twelve video pieces on aspects of the Yolngu, who were introduced to cloth, history, environment and culture: metal, tobacco and seafaring skills. Ceremony is about the rites and ritu- als that describe aspects of the Yolngu Creation tells of when the people of First White Men tells of the various inner life, the ceremonies that bind the area came into being. As there are wars, ultimately won at great cost to the community together and keep the many creation stories, this is the story them, fought by the Yolngu to protect people and their traditions strong. of Dog Dreaming and his travels from their lands and people from the en- the swamp to the sea. croachment by white man, including the Language tells the story of how the Americans who tried ranching the land. different languages were given to the Our Ancestors describes the way the different clans of people of the region Yolngu used to live, in the old times, ThomsonTime speaks of Dr Donald and describes the relationship of the before the arrival of any visitors from Thomson, the anthropologist who clan groups and the people as a whole the outside world, and how this soci- came to solve the turmoil in Arnhem to their languages. ety used to operate. Land in the 1930s. Thomson learnt the language of, lived with, studied and Nowadays captures a slice of the The Macassans from the island of Su- befriended the people and was a great contemporary way of life for the SCREEN EDUCATION lawesi in Indonesia, were the first who advocate for them to government. Yolngu in the township of Ramingining. 5 EXPLORING THE TWELVE SEGMENTS 1. Creation Creation tells of when the people of the area came into being. As there are many creation stories, this is the story of Dog Dreaming and his travels from the swamp to the sea. 1 This story is part of the Dreaming. Describe what happens or what we are told. 2 Why do civilizations create stories about origins? 3 How are they passed on? 4 What is their purpose? 5 What other roles do they play in a society? 6 What happens to the culture if they are lost? 7 Scientific and secular knowledge challenge the literal meaning of these stories. Are they still impor- tant and worth keeping? 8 How does the film tell the story? Identify the various elements used in this ‘tone poem’.
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