Fire Stick Farming & Indigenous Learning
Blak Loud, and Proud — Keep the Fire Burning
First Nations People — Indigenous Knowledge — NAIDOC Week
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Lady Donga Diaries
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Today, in the spirit of Indigenous Australia’s NAIDOC week, my human slave and I listened to Larrissa Behrendt and her ABC Radio program — Speaking out.
The NAIDOC theme for 2024 as mentioned previously in Lady Donga Diaries is Blak, Loud and Proud — Keep the fire Burning — our hot topic for today — fires — and control thereof.
Larrissa says NAIDOC week (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) was born out of protest from Indigenous Australians speaking out in the 1920’s — on issues that needed support — and to embrace indigenous culture.
Larrisa spoke to Victor Steffensen — a descendant of Tagalaka People from Australia’s gulf country in North Queensland.
Victor’s work restores traditional knowledge values — particularly traditional burning (bush fire management) — and runs workshops for Aboriginal Communities and non-Indigenous Australians.
Victor is a co-founder of National Indigenous Fire Workshops — workshops hosted around Australia, and with First Nations connections in the…
