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An Indigenous woman holds a Gija dictionary

an older Indigenous woman holds a Gija dictionary

"When I was walking with old people on the station, they never talked English; they used to talk language when they would take us out bush."

An older Indigenous man sits with clapping sticks

an orange mesa hill next to a grassy plain

an Indigenous man speaks into a microphone

an Indigenous man, painted up, dances holding a wooden art work

"It's partly related to the Dreamtime because things like echidnas were female, so the word for echidna is grammatically feminine; the wedge-tailed eagle was a man, so the word was masculine."

young girls point spears in dance

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