This week saw a national celebration of First Nations language and culture on Indigenous Literacy Day. It's been marked with a special performance of song, dance and storytelling on Gadigal land in Sydney.
That's the sound of excited school students on the excursion of a lifetime, visiting Sydney.
But they're not just here as tourists - these young Indigenous students have created something very special to share. The book was published as part of an initiative by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, a charity working in remote Indigenous communities across Australia. "It's so important to me, in the role that I am as a storyteller myself, using different mediums, to work with our kids in rural remote areas, to show them that there's no limit to what we can do. Our culture is important. And most importantly is to bring it into the modern world, through literature, and to share it with other communities. Because in the past we were sort of restricted in a way with boundaries, because of the lack of technology.
"What I love about ILF is that they empower people, they don't go in with a direct narrative, they don't go in with, 'this is how it's got to be done'. They go in and listen to community, they sit down with community, they engage with community. And when they engage with community, the community then own it."
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