Connections of Spirit: Kuninjku Attachments to Country

This is the way Ivan Namirrkki, born in 1961 and a Kuninjku language speaker from western Arnhem Land, describes his attachment to his country and its waters. Namirrkki is musing on his relationship to a camping place called Wakyoy on Manggabor Creek, a tributary of the Liverpool River, that is a sh...

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1. Verfasser:	Luke Taylor
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	This is the way Ivan Namirrkki, born in 1961 and a Kuninjku language speaker from western Arnhem Land, describes his attachment to his country and its waters. Namirrkki is musing on his relationship to a camping place called Wakyoy on Manggabor Creek, a tributary of the Liverpool River, that is a short walk from his outstation at Kumurrulu. In a couple of sentences he has outlined an attachment which speaks to his understanding of creation and the intrinsic bodily link between himself and the place where he is living. The country was ‘put there’ by the Ancestral beings for Namirrkki’s