ML147635
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Subject 1: crow/raven sp. (Corvus sp.). Timecode In: 00:00:47. Timecode out: 00:03:18. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Keith. Timecode In: 00:19:49. Timecode out: 00:54:17. Notes: Aboriginal dreaming, song, geology discussions; Australia; Aboriginal dreaming, song, geology discussions. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Unidentified person. Timecode In: 01:05:09. Timecode out: 01:07:39. Notes: Geology discussion; Australia; Geology discussion. Subject 4: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Acoustic music. Timecode In: 01:17:57. Timecode out: 01:28:34. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Stereo. LNS #147635 NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Australia -KEITH Log of DAT #: K-2 Engineer: Manoli Wetherell Date: May, 2000 ng = not good ok= okay g = good vg = very good Australia KEITH 17:53 KL: My name is Keith L?, and I'm a chairperson of Milengembe Council. This particular area that we are here at this very moment, this Rocky Point at this area is called? That's the old name for this area here. AC: Is that a word that translates into English? KL: It is a word that this particular area was named ever since in those times in the olden days they used to still have that name --? . AC: Well, maybe first you could tell our listeners about Milengembe and what kind of place it is and the people who live there. KL: Milengembe is a community situated in the coastal area? ? --Northern Territory. And the population of? living in the island is close up to thousand people. 19:54 AC: Well, you know we are here doing these stories ... Look at that. Is that a fossil in the rock, you think? KL: Yes. AC: Ken, look at this. There's a fossil here in this rock. See that? KL: This one we call ? KEN: This thing is living, I think. AC : You think it is? K& KEN: Yeah. KEN: It's alive. KL: It's alive. We call this one bardemer (sp). AC: Bardemer? KL: Yeah. AC: That's pretty hard. What is it? KL: It's like slug or something, you know, that sticks onto the rock. AC : Can you get it out? KL: We sometimes get it and we sometimes boil it and eat it. AC: It'll be hard to get that thing out of there. KL: You should use some kind of file or something ... you know??? really hard to try and? that thing and get it out. AC: Well, one of the things we want to do stories for our radio network about ... about? and about aboriginal people. And one of the things that we're really trying to understand some basic things, and dreaming is one of them, and you were helping us last night. And I wondered if you could kinda do that for us again. And I'd like to talk about the rocks if I could after that. KL: Yes. Just int the point of the word dreaming, it is known to the Y people of eastern? that when we say the word dreaming that it is something we understand in the past every since the times of our great, great, great ancestral time ... the formation of land ... we understand the term dream time it's like another word, another theme to add that would be the dawn of times, you know. With us as Y people, we understand there is a story, there is a living history that connects with our ancestors and connects with the land, the sea, the nature, the animals and most important of all is the lifestyle of Y people. With dream time within the dream really the word dream comes from the word Ballender (sp). But the people understanding the concept of dreaming is within the heart of Y people and within the minds of Y people. So, believing is what we believe. The footstool, the foundation, of or great, great ancestral beings --the formation of land, everything in conjunction that connects with land, sea, rock, animal --dreaming is a significant pali that represents sites, represents our belief, our myth, and the knowledge in ? that comes from the heart of our ancestral beings. And our belief is very important. We understand there is the force,... (Notes truncated)
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- crow/raven sp. Corvus sp.
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- 30 Nov 2009 - David McCartt
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- 30 Nov 2009 - David McCartt
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- 30 Nov 2009 - David McCartt