Wurundjeri Elders guide a field trip to Dreaming sites across the country, sharing the creation story of Manoweni and explaining traditional resources like soap bush. The recording captures sacred anthills, wildlife, and the practical reality of traveling through country to learn Indigenous knowledge tied to the land.
Here we are, we're heading off to, I mean, a great adventure. We're with Wurundjeri Elders, our elders, my brothers, and we're going to go and see the Wurundjeri Dreamings, waterlines of the country, all the animal creation, the place of creation. So it's pretty amazing, isn't it? Yes. Pumped as. Here we are, stopped in the middle of the road because like we had to, we ran out of gas and now we can't get the bloody truck started. So we decided we're going to look for Galena.
Hello, welcome. I'm Manuel. This is where it begins, story about the man. We say Manuel, where did the first seed start from? We talk about the creation of man.
Creation of man.
Creation of man. Manoweni.
Manoweni.
Where man appeared from the dirt. We say yangi banga.
Here we are in the middle of country, Semjay Country.
This is where the Wurundjeri believed creation took place. It's absolutely beautiful, absolutely beautiful. In the wet season, this whole place is teeming with wildlife and life, and the water runs down through. Just incredible.
This is, this is a soap bush. Soap. Soap.
Because they accuse blackfellas of never having any hygiene. That's a bush soap. Yeah, look at that soap. Clean. It comes off this tree here. Yeah, yeah, like the green one.
Yeah, not that thing. Add napa soap. Wash your hands. Take a big handful, put a water from there, a little bit of water, a little bit of water, and later up all that water and grab it.
It makes little circles. It's crazy.
I need your hands washed. Bush turkey.
Yeah. Kuringa.
Kuringa.
There's a bigger—
Big old waste of water. Something busted. At a cattle station.
Sacred, sacred anthill. Look how tall that bloody thing is. That's a small one. Whole field full. All the kangaroos. Here I am at MJ's house. It's Ligabada. Ligabada.
This is where man crazy begin. White band.
White band.
