The Traditional Owners of Yalanbara call out to the spirit of the Old People, and Country cares for you. That place is healing and it calms your soul. Anyone, whether it's Yolnu or Balanda, can feel the spirit of that place.
At Yalanbara you are somebody.
Yalanbara is a special place: white sand, turquoise water, plenty to eat. But what happens when the car gets bogged on the way there? Is it time to be hot and cross, or to remember. . . and dream?
Author Information
Rärriwuy Garramu Marika is an teacher, artist, poet, linguist, translator, author of children's books, co-author of academic papers and the daughter of Wandjuk Marika and Gotjiri?u Bukulatjpi. She is a Yol?u elder of the Rirratji?u clan from north-east Arnhem Land and has played a significant role in bilingual education. Rärriwuy has written texts in Yol?u languages for students and worked for the Yirrkala Bilingual School as a teacher linguist for 40 years. She was a visiting teacher in Melbourne for McKinnon Secondary College and Princes Hills Primary School. She was the Visiting Indigenous Fellow for Melbourne University at Trinity College from
2005-2008. Rärriwuy is currently working at ARDS as a co-djägamirr (co-manager) for Community Development. Rärriwuy is passionate about maintaining clan languages in the region and applies this passion in her work, her literature and as a Community Elder.
Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs is a Yol?u leader of the Dätiwuy clan from north-east Arnhem Land. She plays a significant role in bilingual education in Arnhem Land, including writing texts in Yol?u for students. She is a senior member of the Bawaka Collective and the Gay'wu Group of women, in collaboration with academics from Macquarie University and the University of Newcastle, and a co-author of Welcome to My Country and Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country Through Songlines. She is an Honorary Associate of the Department of Environment and Geography at Macquarie University, Sydney.
