Expert Indigenous trackers from the Tanami Desert in outback Northern Territory are teaching others how to track and identify animals.
The voice belongs to Warlpiri woman Alice Henwood from Nyirripi , a small community about 400 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs.The group of people, spread out like the tufts of spinifex across the land, slowly gather around to look at where she is pointing."Ngana-kurlangu?" Whose is it? "Nyarrpara-purda?" Which direction?the puwujuma, fox, the warnapari, dingo and excitingly, the endangered walpajirri, bilby.
"You have to follow the tracks really straight and see which way the track's going," Ms Ellis translated.Ms Henwood said she was proud to share her knowledge to create the learning resource, which helps "anyone" — Yapa or Cartiya — learn more about the Warlpiri way of understanding animals and their movement.
Yuendemu's Enid Nangala Gallagher helped translate words between Warlpiri and English for the program. While Ms Henwood and Ms Ellis are from Nyirripi in the southern Warlpiri area, expert trackers Myra Herbert and Jerry Jangala are from Lajamanu on the northern side of Warlpiri country, and also shared their significant knowledge with the project.Project coordinator Kim Webeck said the Warlpiri wanted to share the program's resources so it could be adapted to other groups' knowledge systems and languages.
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