00:00Wollong Bayewa. Hello. We are on Dakinung Country this morning in this space here at Pelican Point.
00:09We don't have a traditional name. Because of colonial policies and displacement,
00:15a lot of our names for our places and objects were forced out of use.
00:20You know, I can imagine them, I can see them here on the beautiful rock shelf out there,
00:26collecting oysters, other shellfish. The men would be sitting on the rocks
00:31while the women were diving down to collect lobsters and things like that.
00:40It's a thing that I respect the most about my grandmother is her ability and willingness to teach people.
00:50And people listen, you know, no matter where they come from or no matter what their background,
00:55people listen to my grandmother. And I just want to be able to capture some of that as well.
01:00What we find with Aboriginal people is if they're really steeped in their culture
01:05and they've got that understanding and some language, they're just different people.
01:09And because there's pride, the self-esteem and everything comes into it.
01:13So hopefully one day it might become their first language again.
01:17But I'll be up there with, you know, with all my ancestors and my family and everybody
01:21and we're looking down and thinking, wow, they're doing it.
01:24I'll make you proud.
01:25Yeah, and they'll be doing it. So, yeah.
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