From hunting to creating art, growing up in Yirrkala in the Northern Territory is unlike growing up anywhere else.
My mum is Yolŋu. My dad is white. And that makes me:For tens of thousands of years, the Yolŋu people were living out on their homelands, all around the North East Arnhem Land region. There's about 20 homelands — each holds the identity of a Yolŋu clan.
The Yolŋu were very accommodating, even though people like my family were basically treated like slaves. Dhopiya grew up during the mission days. She vividly remembers the leader of the mission, and the man who my street was named after, Douglas Tuffin.The old people share some good memories of the mission days, even though hearing their stories now, it sounds like they had such hard lives.Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
"[And] we still have our songs, we have our stories, we know every contour of every beach and land, and what they're called. I think we are very lucky people."
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