00:04My name is Vincent McKenzie. I'm a Kolargun bard, also Kolargun. I'm from the Djarajan
00:11community, and community, its clan group is the Kolargun people, which is from the Bardi
00:17tribe. This place that we're at the moment, it's called Burururon. The name of this place
00:25comes from the place Burururon, and Rotorururur is that place where they walk along, the mud
00:32flats. With this place, there's a dreaming of two young boys that went out hunting. They
00:42left the tribe, the Kolargun people, back on the sand dune, and they said they were going
00:48to go hunting. They're going to catch some fish for the mob. And they said, we're going
00:56to send a signal back to the other mob at the beach. They came back, light the fire on the
01:02top of the hill, send the signal up. They looked, they said, oh, there's a fire burning there.
01:10They said, okay, they must have catch all that fish. Let's walk. They'll be waiting for us,
01:16those two young boys. Today you still see those footprints on the rocks. This story has a
01:24dreaming with it, and also a song line. In Bardi, we call them Ali, fish. Ambun Ambun family, all
01:37you come together and share that feed, and then go back home. When I go out on country,
01:44come back to this place Burururon, I go along the beaches, check around country, see it,
01:51everything is still okay, and have a good time at theater, you know, go fishing, get back
02:00on country, hunting, and all that stuff you have. I'm always on country, and I look after
02:10the place. It gives me that, Leon, we call our feeling of goodness, of our well-being,
02:17being back on country and looking after our country. It's a beautiful place. My old people
02:25said, keep the names, keep the language, because one day you'll be the one who's going to pass it over.
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