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Our Mother Tongue Woiwurrung

ABC Indigenous3:22

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Nobody, Naruto, are no Nara. Jaron dudei, wrong one year. Navid in Nara, geranyl Nara. Jaren on do their own, do their own. Our culture is that you only take from the land what you can give back. I always said this, feeling that I was missing something in my life. I'd been called many things, you know. We were part of the flora and fauna. And I was 22 before I was legally able to vote. Those early years were very much, you know, kind of that I, I didn't exist as a person.

But I'd seen and heard what my dad had gone through and the impact of all of that. And I just knew that I had to give back some way. But I knew also that they'd stripped him of his belonging. And I was going to give back to him and his family and everyone else at that time.

I'm currently working at Hills for High School as a language teacher, teaching Warrior on of my people. There were untrue people at the moment. We're working on props for our school performance by our eighth Indigenous Studies class. The play is based on a war and recreation story, and it's called "How the Bell Rung" or "The Error Was Created."

For me to have this wonderful opportunity now to teach language is that passage that in time that we were able to allow the children of this generation to not only learn the country, not only learn about the culture, but also know the language and how important it is. Because we are about, you know, educating everyone. And if we share what knowledge has been handed down from all over those years, when then we hope that that can bring a much more harmonious community.

And I think to the other thing with language is the power that it has. You can just have that magic of being in a beautiful surround where it embraces you and makes you feel that you belong in this place. Women jakar were unsure bellick yemen Cundy. Big you are most welcome to the traditional lands of the War andrey people. But in Naruto run own knowledge are.

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