• Brolga Dance •
Traditional Australian Aboriginal
Song of the Gamilaraay People
Introduction by Wina-ngali-gii Paul Spearim in English.
Sung by Birawaa Bud Spearim in Gamilaraay.language.
Animation and Artwork by Colin Isaacs.
Brolga =
A big migrating water bird - a source of inspiration and economy
Yulugi =
Dance - a playful expression of knowledge through body movement
Gamilaraay =
Aboriginal People of Australia's central eastern river and plain lands. (sometimes written as Kamilaroi)
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Vocals recorded in Brisbane QLD,
Artwork recorded and animated in Inverell.
Post-Prod and upload in Moree NSW in 2009
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Contemporary Rendition of Traditional Aboriginal Song
by Elder Country
• Yarraman_by_Country @ ...
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MORE Art Info =
Colin Isaacs' web pages
includes history, artwork and contact info -
www.newagemulti...
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MORE Gamilaraay Info =
Paul Spearim - Gamilaraay Teacher and Performer
Contemporarily spoken and sung Gamilaraay language
historical informaton and family connection -
• Dance_Gamilaraay_Today...
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Moree Corroboree : Censored Songs Now Sung
Australians learnt in 1965 of Aboriginal children's exclusion
from Moree's public pool when Charlie Perkins
Freedom Ride exposed it.
Most had no idea how deeply Aborigines on reserves
were able to hide their culture from nA authorities.
THE people of Moree knew the late Gamilaraay elder
Dave Spearim as a Christian minister
but in his home on the Aboriginal ''mission’'
he taught his 23 children their forbidden language,
songs and dance.
In the zealous days of official culture eradication,
the Spearim family ''had to practise in the dark'',
said Mr Spearim, 48.
Three of Mr Spearim's older brothers were secretly
put through traditional initiation.
''Every morning Dad used to wake me up and ask:
'What is your name.
Where are you from?
What is your clan?'
I had to answer in language,''
Mr Spearim said.
''My mum used to sing us
to sleep with traditional songs.''
His legacy shook the earth of a sportsground
beside the Mehi river in Moree as his son Paul's
15-year dream of hosting the first corroboree
for his people since 1938.
On sand shaped into three dance circles
for men, women and the elders -
replicating the stomping ground at that last ceremony
71 years ago at which father Dave Spearim ministered.
NSW clans from Nowra to Taree to Tamworth
came together resplendent in ochre designs
from their own homelands:
the Gumbayngirr and Biripi from coastal Taree
in their soft sandy paint,
the Gamilaraay hosts with their faces symbols
on a dark brown base.
Smoked and ochred,
clanspeople from around the country
joined in the first corroboree
(allowed by nA authorities)
in the area in 71 years.
They began by cleansing the grounds
with smoldering gumleaves
and a ''smoking song'' which Paul said
was last performed at Yetman caves
generations ago.
Fifteen descendants of Dave Spearim
and his two wives have travelled from Campbelltown
and three little boys came from Katoomba to dance,
sharing one kangaroo skin costume between them.
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