Yindjibarndi
Ngurra Nyujunggamu
Ceremony, kinship and Tribal Law are the heart and soul of our life - they connect us to the beginning of the world.
In our Law it is said that in the beginning the sky was very low. When the creation spirits got up from the ground, they lifted the sky and the world out of the sea. The creation spirits are called Marrga. They still live in the rocky mountains and gullies. In the early morning the mist over the water is smoke from their breakfast fires.
If Marrga are not approached and spoken to in the proper way, they might hurt visitors or make them sick. It was the Marrga and Minkala/Mangunyba (Skygod) that named and shaped the country, then all the birds and animals, and finally the Ngardangali (Aboriginal people) came from the Marrga themselves. In other places they call this the ‘dreaming’, but here we call it Ngurra Nyujunggamu - ‘when the world was soft’.
Marrga.
Ngurra-Nyujung Gamu
Stories from When the world was soft
How A Sea Serpent made Millstream Pools
Wirringil and Jirruny (Quail and the Pelicans)
Millstream-Chichester National Park
Galharra
Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
The skin system
Every man and woman in the community belong to one of four Galharra groups - Banaga, Burungu, Balyirri or Garimarra.
Understanding your Galharra group helps you understand your relationships and responsibilites to your family, the community and to the land. Learn more.
Fortescue River
Ngurrawaana
A Community near Millstream-Chichester National Park
Founded in 1983 by Woodley King near Millstream-Chichester National Park Learn more.
Ngurrawaana Community at Night / Spinnifex Pigeon, 2008
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