We are inviting the DDEC member group and volunteer community for a visit to local first nations sacred site Gummingurru.
DDEC is working to take responsibility for building knowledge and awareness within our community of First Nations issues, peoples and places.
We also want to have a conversation about what we need to do to better listen to and communicate with First Nations peoples when it comes to how we take action to steward country.
This event will include a tour, followed by some team building activities and then meeting for lunch at a nearby pub.
When: Saturday the 15th of February from 9am
One of Australia's most important historical Aboriginal sites
The Gummingurru stone arrangement is estimated to be around 4000 years old.
In the country of the Jarowair Aboriginal people, this site is an Aboriginal Bora (or ceremonial) site and was used as a men’s initiation site until about 1890.
It was also a site where different tribal groups met on their way to the Bunya Nut Festival.
In 2008 the Gummingurru land was handed back to the Gummingurru Aboriginal Corporation (GAC). The traditional custodians now care for Gummingurru and are reviving the cultural knowledge of this place and rediscovering stone arrangements that have been buried in the soil.
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