#iningai

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"The new name Watyakan Creek honours the cultural significance and history of the creek to the Iningai and Bidjara people. Watyakan (said Watch-A-Kan) is an Iningai word for women’s creek and is a respectful way to pay tribute to those who historically camped near it." [X]

"[It'll] make me proud to be an Aboriginal woman going across there and looking down, seeing those people either collecting water, sitting around talking women's business." [X]

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Aboriginal girl (unfinished) c.1884, by Harriet Neville-Rolfe

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