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At Ubirr we see a giant kangaroo painted beneath layers of other images. Each image placed above another image shows how long ago they were created. While paleontologists make recreations of animals, they are only ideas of what they think animals looked like in the past. They base their images off of bone structure, where muscles sit on the face and what similar species look like. They may not necessarily look the same as the animal appeared, because they are merely representations. When we look at images created by an Aboriginal person, it could be argued that they represent the closest version of what animals of the past looked like. This is because they were most likely created at the time the illustrator was looking at them.

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#Bininj #Mungguy #Aboriginal #ancient history #Australia

7 Blak artists YOU should be listening to because they're ridiculously good and you're frankly missing out

Spinifex Gum/Marliya - teenage youth choir of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls and women from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Like a lot of Aboriginal music, their songs are often a combination of protest and hope. All the sounds used in their songs (outside of vocals) are recordings of everyday sounds in their local communities. CW for mention of police brutality & deaths in custody for Ganalili.

But somewhere deep down in the dark there sings It's always dark before the light breaks in

Ganalili is the Yindjibarndi word for the glow at the beginning of dawn, between darkness and light.

Hey! I'm Yurala I know this ground I'm Yurala don't dam it down And the river's my body Can you hear the thundering clouds?

Yurala is a Yindjibarndi word meaning 'rain-maker'.

Barkaa - proud Malyangapa Barkindji woman, certified Koori royalty & role model of Aboriginal girls everywhere. pretty much everything she touches is gold but Ngamaka (literally 'mother' in Barkindji language, a mourning song protesting the destruction of their sacred river Barkaa which she is named after) is a great starting point.

This land of the lucky? Nah, land of the mines Destroying our country in front of your eyes and you stuck staying blind Stuck being quiet to the facts That the futures now dim for our kids Yeah, greed rules the world, but I got a question Where do you go when there's nowhere to dig?

Inkabee - ridiculously talented (and heartwarming) Noongar Wongi rapper/singer aged just 14!! His Like A Version cover of Where Is The Love is AMAZING and makes me smile-cry, but also his single "Saved By The Bell", which he made aged ELEVEN about how learning at school is gonna help him help his mob (family/community) is beautiful and a banger.

Woke up in the morning and I look up in the mirror and I say to myself (Myself) "I'm doin' it for me and I'm doin' it for everyone else"

3% - collaborative project of Nooky and Dallas Woods (both prominent solo Aboriginal musicians in their own right). 3% refers to the 3% of Australia's population that are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Their Like A Version reimagining of Youngblood is REALLY good, it's hard to explain but it's a hear me out. fyi the verses are significantly changed if that bothers you.

Baker Boy - Yolŋu hip hop artist, iconic, he's been in the scene for a while but he deserves a place on this list anyway. He incorporates a lot of Yolŋu language into his music and he's again yet to make a song that isn't a banger.

Marryuna is a Yolŋu word that means "dancing with no shame". basically just letting loose and freestyling.

Thelma Plum - also a classic, deserves a spot anyway, she's a proud Gomeroi singer and her work is really emotionally raw.

Do you know what it feels like To be told that you are never right? If I had lighter skin, maybe I would win Does it make you want to think?

Kobie Dee - Gomeroi singer/songwriter/rapper, makes ridiculously good beats and music, you've heard this all before go listen.

This world I see Ain't gonna last too long And I must be a fool to really think that I coulda changed it all with a song But still I try

(maroubra villain is just fun tbh)

#i feel like outside of our communities no one in australia (let alone everywhere else) knows how deadly aboriginal music is #and that really sucks for them so #technically i was gunna post this on naidoc week but i got busyyy ... luckily no one knows when naidoc is #Youtube #aboriginal #torres strait islander #indigenous #blakblr #first nations #kobie dee #thelma plum #baker boy #3%#inkabee #barkaa #spinifex gum #aboriginal australian #australian music #black and deadly

#Melanie Mununggurr #poetry #Yolŋu #Aboriginal #Australia

white people be like "how could indigenous peoples possibly have passed down tens of thousands of years of history & knowledge through music, dance & oral tradition?? they should've just invented writing" then turn around and recreate every word of ra ra rasputin and the hamilton soundtrack complete with all the choreography

#hamilton is white people's corroboree #aboriginal #indigenous #first nations #no shade to ra ra rasputin or hamilton or white people btw #have much love for all of the above #i just think it's funny the double standards we have for different cultures #babakieuria (barbecue area) is a really funny 80s satire on this

Land back celebration, Wakaya-Alyawarre land

#wakaya #aboriginal #dance #australia

#walmajarri #walmadjari #jiwarliny #aboriginal #australia #love & relationships

The Seven Seasons of the Larrakia: Gulumoerrgin Seasonal Calendar

#larrakia #nature #farming #aboriginal #australia