Our water is never just one water. We name the tides, the currents, the muddy water and the clear, the shallow water and the deep, the salt and the fresh. When the salt water meets the fresh, that is Garma, two knowledges mixing and mingling. SONG SPIRALS - Gay'wu Group of Women
When Yolŋu people sing of water, we are singing our deep knowledge of water. We are singing our conneciton to water. We sing of that body and of our own body, our own bodies of water. SONG SPIRALS - Gay'wu Group of Women
And we we sign of that water, we remake that water, and we remake ourtselves and our connecitons with water and all else which is Country. SONG SPIRALS - Gay'wu Group of Women
Our water is never just one water. We name the tides, the currents, the muddy water and the clear, the shallow water and the deep, the salt and the fresh. When the salt water meets the fresh, that is Garma, two knowledges mixing and mingling. SONG SPIRALS - Gay'wu Group of Women
There is an undeniable pattern in the sum total of all these old stories from around the world, indicating that sedentary lifestyles and cultures that do not move with the land or mimic land-based networks in their social systems do not transition well through apocalyptic moments. SAND TALK - Tyson Yunkaporta